Model, Process, Technique, and the Good Thing
Transportation, 35: 375-393, 2008
Antti Talvitie (aptalvitie(at)gmail.com)
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies
ABSTRACT
The paper unpacks the planning process into its component parts: model, process, technique, and goals –the “good thing”. The paper advances the concept that planning, policy-making, and organizational restructuring can be analyzed under the same framework. Each of the four components is described and reductionist examples are presented to clarify the intention and to illustrate the technique that the transport analyst teams employ in their work. The examples cover both successes and failures. They point toward the enormous scientific task ahead for planning to become meaningful and relevant to the problems of today. Finally, in the frame of the willingness to pay, the paper puts forward a case for an institutional framework for a financially autonomous road administration. Similarly organized, administered, and managed entities are relevant also for other transport modes.
Key words: planning, transport policy, benefit-cost, institutional development, road administration
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