Abstract | Transport is largely a derived demand and serves the needs of producers and consumers across the various sectors of the economy. Hence, business decisions taken by these non-transport sectors can have a major influence on passenger and freight travel patterns (particularly in terms of the numbers and location of trips); yet these transport consequences and the impacts on traffic congestion, accidents, air pollution and CO2 emissions, are rarely taken into account when these sectors develop their models for (public) service delivery and business models. This deliverable provides an initial conceptual framework to help address this problem. It first presents (Chapter 3) an international review of locational and service delivery decision-making in several sectors, with a more in-depth analysis of case studies from the health sector. It concludes that, while there is a credible academic literature, there is limited public documentation about actual business decision-making processes and no underpinning conceptual framework. The latter issue is addressed in Chapter 4, where seven conceptual cornerstones are introduced, as inputs to a proposed conceptual framework. Chapter 5 considers the applicability of this embryonic conceptual framework to four sectors (health, education, retail and tourism), while Chapter 6 explores existing forms and degrees of cross-sector coordination in each of the six SUMP-PLUS cities. The conceptual framework and findings presented in Chapter 6 will be applied as part of the Cocreation Laboratories being set up in each SUMP-PLUS partner city (within WP2), which will provide the opportunity to test and further develop the ideas set out in this deliverable. We would like to thank those partners who have made detailed comments on an earlier draft of this report. |
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