Planning of National Transport Infrastructure

In the Islamic Countries

Another scope of realising broad involvement is at the administrative level: at the regional or

local level needs and opportunities can be identified early, and projects can be submitted into

the NTI process (Australia, 2012). In sectio

horizontal and vertical integration in terms of

transport modes is discussed. The principle of vertical integration also applies to the various

levels of government and private organisations (Western Australian Planning Commission,

2012), se

NTI planning needs to get the lower administrative levels involved both in

the phase of conceptualisation, and realisation (bottom-up and top-down).

Figure 5: Horizontal and vertical integrated transport planning

Source: Western Australian Planning Commission (2012)

OECD (2017) notes that: “it is relatively uncommon for infrastructure plans to be developed

using both bottom-up and top-down approaches. Most planning is driven by a bottom-up

process to assess the need for specific sectors or locations. This also means that detailed

assessments of the location of population and economic growth are relatively uncommon.”

Most European countries have legal bound rules on public involvement in NTI planning. Since

1995 France has a Commission National du Débat Public/CNDP (in English: National

Commission of Public Debate). Both Netherlands and France apply public consultation in the

study phase, before approval (Roland Berger, 2013).

The NTI plan of Romania provides us with a concrete example of public consultation (Romania,

2014). Romania has asked for feedback on its working draft of the Master Plan via public

consultation. Over 100 meetings have been held with representatives from the ministry,

operating companies and other stakeholders. The outcome was the identification of the root

cause of problem. Another benefit of the consultation was that additional data have been

received.

Planning horizon

Time and timing play a key role in NTI planning. Time related aspects are distinguished into

four: