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Figure 41: NTI Planning practice in Oman
Source: Fimotions
3.6.9. Policy Recommendations
 It will be useful for Oman to prepare a transport policy, it provides an opportunity for
structured stakeholder and transport user engagement to discuss a wide range of issues in
this dynamic and rapidly changing sector.
 Plans should includemeasures as well as projects, the plan should provide a comprehensive
set of directions that will enable policies to be implemented
 Plans should be outcome based, not only outputs. The specific objectives of the plan may
relate to transport sector efficiency issues but also cross cutting issues as well.
 Plan implementation and performance could be public domain - using contemporarymeans
such as dash boards
3.7. Comparisons of Case Studies
In order to give an overview of the performance of NTI planning practices among the six case
studies, the following comparison table is developed. From the seven framework areas, 10
criteria are chosen. These criteria are considered as basic criteria that should be addressed by
NTI plans of a country. Each case study country is assessed based on these criteria by
determining whether each criterion “does not exist”, “needs to be improved”, or already
“developed”.
The comparison table shows that Qatar performs best as it “ticks all the boxes”, followed by
Malaysia even though Malaysia does not have both a national transport policy and a multimodal
national transport model.