Publication: Road Freight Transport Services Reform: Guiding Principles for Practitioners and Policy Makers
Date
2016-12-22
ISSN
Published
2016-12-22
Author(s)
World Bank
IRU
Abstract
Cost-effective and high quality
transport systems are key to modern logistics. Their role
can only be expected to grow even as the global economy goes
through profound transformation in terms of how, where and
when goods are produced or distributed. In many economies
and at many different geographical scales, road transport
remains the predominant mode of transport and is an
indispensable part of how economic agents interact in space.
Consumer expectations and production requirements
increasingly require that transport operators provide
high-quality services that are also safe and affordable for
their clients. However, in many countries logistics
performance remains too low to effectively contribute to
economic and social development. This is the challenge that
this Guide seeks to meet, to offer paths to reforming the
sector and making it suited to the needs of a highly
connected world. The guide is organized in four broad
sections. The first three set out the role of road transport
in modern economies and the supply chains that characterize
them, the principles of reform, and how to gather data and
information to conduct a diagnostic and target those
reforms. The fourth section offers options and possible
paths available to agencies driving the reform process.
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Citation
“World Bank; IRU. 2016. Road Freight Transport Services Reform: Guiding Principles for Practitioners and Policy Makers. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25853 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”