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Transferability of Best Practice in Transport Policy Delivery : Final Report

Appendix 1 - Questionnaire

Scottish Executive Best Practice in European Transport Administration

We would be very grateful if you could provide a response to us as soon as possible, preferably by email. The questionnaire will take about 60 minutes of your time and is mainly based around tick box questions for easy completion. (You should be able to press ALT + T to insert a tick.) If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the project manager, Tom Rye, on t.rye@napier.ac.uk or on + 44 131 455 2477 or + 44 131 226 4693. Do not worry if you are not able to answer every part of all the questions. Any information you send back will be important. However, if you are unable to answer some parts of some of the questions, it would be very useful if you could put us in touch with someone in your region who would be able to assist with these questions. If you do not have any contacts yourself, please could you provide the name of the organisation or authority that might be able to assist us. (Space has been given for this at the end of the questionnaire.)

Some details about your region (For the purposes of this questionnaire, the term "region" does not necessarily need to relate to an area with administrative boundaries, but should relate to whatever you consider your region to be.)

When answering the rest of the questionnaire please answer questions in relation to the region you have defined above.

Some transport indicators for your region

12. Baseline transport indicators for your region - please complete the following as fully as you can.

13. Car ownership per 1000 persons: ……………………………………..

Organisations running transport in your region

14. Please indicate which levels of public sector organisation exist in your region that have some responsibility for planning and running transport in the region. The terms "provincial" and "regional" may not exactly reflect the situation in your area, but are intended to cover the possibility of 2 levels of government between "national" and "municipal", with "provincial government" covering a larger area than "regional government". The diagram below also explains this concept further. If information is not readily available, please indicate the name(s) of the government level, so that we can investigate.

15. If regional transport organisations exist in your region, please show how independent they are in the decisions that they can make about regional transport, on the following scale:

16.… and how dependent they are on other organisations for funding for transport, on the following scale:

17. What is the approximate percentage of planning and implementation work in transport carried out by consultants compared to permanent staff in transport organisations in your region.

Responsibilities for planning and implementation

18. The following table sets out modes/areas of transport down the left hand side, and bodies that may have responsibility for those modes/areas of transport across the top. For each mode that exists in your region, please indicate which organisations are involved in planning and policy development, and how much control they have with ticks: much control (3 ticks), some control (2 ticks), or little control (1 tick). If it has no control, indicate with an X. For example, in the Edinburgh region of Scotland, the planning and policy development for bus transport is largely private, with a small amount of input from municipal and national government - see the example that has been completed. (If there is no government or transport organisation at this level, please leave blank.)

Planning and Policy Area	National	Provincial	Regional	Municipal	Private
Buses in Edinburgh region (example)			X
Motorways
Major roads
Local roads
Pedestrian and cycle infrastructure (on road, off road)
Long distance rail
Outer suburban rail
Inner suburban rail / metro
Tram
Bus/guided bus
Ferry
Aviation
Fares policy
Information
Land-use planning policy
Parking policy
Freight

19. Now do the same for the operation and maintenance of transport in your region.

20. Now please consider sources of capital funding (investment to build new infrastructure and vehicles) for the different modes that exist in your region. Sources of funding are listed across the top of the table. Please show what percentage of total funding comes from each source by distributing 100% between the different levels of government / organisation for each mode / area of transport. A Scottish example has been completed for you.

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