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Formal Sector Strategies

China: Building Institutions for Sustainable Urban Transport  (PDF 329KB)
EASTR Working Paper No. 4, January 2006

Bhutan Transport Sector Note, Report No. 28522-BHU  (PDF 1.3MB)
Energy and Infrastructure Sector Unit, South Asia Region, August 2004

This report is designed to provide information and advice to the Indian Union and States Governments on the principles and practicalities for establishing a sound and sustainable system of highway financing. The report reviews the economic principles for establishing efficient and equitable road user charges (road pricing), and examines the potential mechanisms for charging road users. Present road taxation in India is assessed in the light of these considerations as is the levels of highway funding required to meet government objectives. The report reviews the potential contribution of private sector finance to the sector and assesses the present use of private finance and the alternative possibilities for utilizing the private sector in the financing and management of the network. The report also examines the need for an agenda of sector reform which addresses both the financial and institutional frameworks needed to achieve network sustainability and public acceptance of higher user charges.

Informal Regional Reports and Documents

The São Paulo Municipality in Brazil has been successful in using Urban Operations to generate resources for the development of activity poles in its territory. In fact, those instruments based on the sale of “additional floor space” have now been used in several operations. This paper describes an effort of the São Paulo Metro (subway) to take advantage of this urban instrument to generate resources for the construction of Phase 2 of Line 4. It also describes the effort that Metro is doing to organize its planning to be more aggressive in this resource mobilization area.

This work was prepared in the context of the World Bank urban transport program in Brazil, and aims at developing a methodology to support the monitoring of the access of lower income populations to public transport services by means of a synthetic index, an index based on geo-referenced information that can be adopted in Brazilian cities. In other words, it is a synthetic index that, besides measuring the provision of services, can identify the areas worst served by public transport, and guide and prioritize solutions to the problems identified. In the construction of this index, we have adopted the international definition of adequacy of transport through the measurement of four attributes: affordability, availability, accessibility, and acceptability.
Annex 1: Maps (PDF 1.1MB)

SSATP Note 37. Building Capacity in Management and Financing in the Road Sector: Meeting the Challenge (PDF 643KB)
Stephen Brushett, Les Sampson, Solomon Waithaka, August, 2004

The note reviews the role that post experience training can play in adding value to capacity building programs in Sub Saharan Africa road sector institutions. The note identifies a number of actions and strategies that can be expected to increase the impact of such training and calls among other things for: further work on demand assessment; widening the range of training providers involved (especially Sub Saharan African based institutions); sharpening the definition of markets and differentiating delivery strategies; involving regional sectro associations in market development; and diversifying course material, including relevant case study examples.

In 1991, the Republic of Brazil asked the World Bank’s assistance in the decentralization program of its urban rail systems run by the Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (Brazilian Urban Trains Company-CBTU). This paper examines the main issues involved in a program of this nature, the institutional obstacles faced and the lessons learned.