Dear Steve
The EU project TRANSPLUS (Transport Planning Land Use and
Sustainability) looked into the issue of transferability of
transport/planning policies a few years back (2003).
The deliverable report(s) on "Barriers, Solutions and
Transferability" may be hard to locate online; I can forward to
anyone interested.
best wishes
Stephen
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Dr Stephen Marshall, Senior Lecturer, Bartlett School of Planning,
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At 09:38 08/05/2009, Steve Melia wrote:
>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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