PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Public Transportation Planning and Policy



Introduction

The meeting was held between the officials of the Lonely Planet transportation in Venezuela on the 15th of May, 2010. The agenda that was being discussed in the meeting was to analyze the process of urban public transportation Formulating policy by the Mayor's Office of Maracaibo in the Decade of the 1990s. Was Methodology Used to contrast the reality with Hypotheses Supported Theoretically, based on documentary information? That Demonstrated Results: 1) Public transportation policy in the start of the 20th century was Characterized by the state Evident Relationship between Economic Reforms and the market-based model. 2) The principal decision-making Subject was the World Bank, in the case of the Municipality of Maracaibo, in correspondence with the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Venezuelan Council for Transportation and FONTUR. 3) Actors Were on the municipal level: the Presidential Transportation Commission for the City of Maracaibo, the Municipal Institute for Urban Collective Transportation in Maracaibo, the Environmental Systems Research Institute for Light and the company at SYSTRA, Who Were executors basically the policy. 4) The formal process of formulating a transportation policy in Venezuela was Developed model based on a pre-established by the World Bank for investment project approval "around the world. Conclusions Were That, Through International Technical aid, World Bank criteria Were Imposed Policy Formulation on the transportation process in Venezuela, while the Municipalities execute the policy although They Did not Participate in ITS Formulation.

Discussion on the Hearing

The meeting was being held at the headquarter office of the company. Public transport is subject to intervention by the State through public policy, while contributing to deploy the dominant development model and is likewise subject to intervention at the local level as it is about meeting citizens directly. Public transport is in the town, a tool for social service that benefits the population as a whole. In addition, because it is based on the direct delivery of services to citizens, transportation becomes a political instrument to the extent that through the creation of modern transportation systems, state governors legitimize their actions in society, in search of new support for their proposals and / or applications.

So both economic exchange and the social and political legitimacy are the sources of the regulation of transport meeting the demands of the public policy. Therefore, it is possible to affirm that public transport industry is a service industry and is an instrument of ...