Sustainable Transport for the Developing World: The Social and Environmental Nexus

Abstract

To establish a sound foundation for sustainable transport, governments need to create the proper institutional framework for competition, set economically efficient charges for the use of publicly provided infrastructure, appraise the allocation of scarce public resources carefully (both as an investor and as a purchaser), and increase community participation in decision making, particularly in those areas where markets work poorly. With few exceptions, even industrialized countries have not embraced all of these requirements to ensure sustainability and good governance in their transport sectors. The experience of the 1990s strongly suggests that some of the reformist developing countries may well achieve a high degree of sustainability in their transport sectors in the new millennium and provide a new paradigm of transport development for industrialized and developing countries alike to emulate.

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