Steve some comments arising partially out of EU FP6 funded CURACAO project (where ITS Leeds was involved) which looks at the experience of road pricing across cities. However the report is applicable to a large extent and in my opinion, to the more general field of Travel Demand Management and could of course be more widely applicable in transport systems planning and analysis.
The author of the chapter on transferability took inspiration from a working paper Rose(2001)
• territorial transfers, described as “horizontal” and covering the full range of situations where experience may be transferred between different locations
• transfers between institutions at different levels, described as “vertical” and covering issues relating to the scaling up or scaling down of policies
• transplanting of institutions and related competence instruments, covering situations where changes of institutional structures may be required.
Rose R., (2001). “Ten steps in learning lessons from abroad” Future Governance Paper 1 Available at http://www.hull.ac.uk/futgov/Papers/PubPapers/RRPaper1.pdf
Some information exists out there on transferability e.g. from the METEOR project where it is suggested that any transferability process must go through four phases:
• a demonstration phase where best practice is identified in the originator city;
• a transferability phase where the compatibility of that best practice with the needs of the receptor city is appraised
• an assessment phase where the specific barriers amenable to change and factors of success are identified in the receptor city; and
• an implementation phase where the good practice is implemented in the receptor city.
The reference for METEOR(2006) is METEOR (2006) "METEOR Deliverable 6: CIVITAS 1 Cross Site Evaluation" Meteor Project Financed by the European Union 5th Framework Research Programme.
(http://www.civitas-initiative.org/download_center.phtml?lan=en)
You can take a look at the draft State of the Art Review of CURACAO at http://www.curacaoproject.eu/state-of-the-art-report.php.
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Subject: [UTSG] Transferrability of International Experience
To what extent, and under what circumstances, can experience observed in
one country or culture be transferred to another?
A lot of transport (and other built environment) research tends to "look across
the fence" usually for better practice to be emulated, sometimes for worse
practice to be avoided. But how do we know whether something which works
in one country, will work in the same way somewhere else?
Most researchers (and others) who take this approach either:
a) assume that something will work in the same way, or:
b) argue that it won't work (or will work differently) because of some
contextual differences
In both cases, the writers seem to make up their own criteria for arguing
either a) or b). I have never come across any general theory, or even rule-of-
thumb criteria for assessing how experience might transfer across countries or
cultures.
Has anyone come across anything relevant to this?
Steve Melia
University of the West of England
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