Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Pages 17
Diverse patterns of intercity transport systems across countries reveals that maintaining balanced shares of different modes contributes to both environmental and efficiency objectives. This is because of the better division of the transport market among different modes according to their inherent advantages. The paper proposes a framework for setting vision and strategies to achieve the modal balance, and also forwards a hypothesis on future scenarios emphasizing importance of considering long term changes in travel behavior for formulating effective policies. Finally, focusing on the cases of developing Asian countries, the paper discusses the key issues and related policy options covering such topics as assessing the needs for different transport infrastructure, managing the intermodal competition, coordinating the transport and spatial developments, promoting the low-carbon transport, and exploring alternative financing schemes.
