Methodology and proposal of new road categorization according to regions in Slovenia
Overview
Background & policy context:
Regionalisation of Slovenia is one of the basic instruments for the implementation of sustainable regional development that is in accordance with environment and natural resources. This process could also help to encourage regional co-operation and to preserve the identity of Slovenian regions.
Regionalisation of Slovenia will provoke changes also in the state administration, namely in the field of transport policy. Adoption of regions in Slovenia will demand modelling of competences of future regions and also of their financial resources. The number of adopted regions will also have influence on the shares of roads in particular regions and afterwards also on their management.
Objectives:
The objectives of the project are as follows:
- Definition of the road network competences which will have to remain under state jurisdiction and of competences, which could be transferred to regions. For the latter also the definition of the process how these competences will be gradually transferred to regions.
- Setting up of different possible senarios of Slovenia regionalisation, namely: Slovenia will be one region as a whole country; or, in Slovenia three, eight, twelve or fourteen regions will be established.
- Elaboration and financial evaluation of the transfer of competences for different possible numbers of regions as well as estimation of costs of the transfer of competences and calculation of economic viability.
- Elaboration of new categorisation of state roads in Slovenia, depending on the number of regions in Slovenia.
Methodology:
The methodology involved detailed analysis of the present road management and the possible creation of 3, 8, 12 or 14 regions in Slovenia. As a part of this analysis, those regional roads that could be classified in higher categories according to the spatial development strategy of Slovenia, were defined.
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