Case Studies on Transport Policy

期刊简介：Transport policy is a multidisciplinary field where engineering, economics, sociology and law must come together in well-articulated and effective solutions. Despite being a field of effective intervention, most scientific publications address transport policy with a theoretical and often abstract approach, making its understanding difficult for non-senior academics and even more opaque for practitioners. While the merits of case study methods both for undergraduate and graduate teaching are recognised, academics struggle to find empirical material that provides objective and operational illustration of the theories and approaches lectured. This is a major barrier not only in the teaching context but also for practitioners. Case Studies on Transport Policy covers this gap by providing a repository of relevant material to support teaching and transferability of experiences. Observation of field experience highlighting the details and drawbacks of implementation is invaluable to show how Transport Policy can be applied in the operational field, maintaining consistency with strategic options. Teaching with case studies introduces students to challenges they may face in the real world, and provides a very rich learning method for executive training at every institutional level. For practitioners, and specially governments, case studies are a powerful tool to show the potential benefits from policy measures and packages. Case Studies on Transport Policy and its sister journal Transport Policy provide a valuable reference for the specialised study of transport policy offering in-depth theoretical analysis and detailed case study description and analysis, and in this way providing very complete material for decision makers planners and practitioners to undertake transferability of experiences.

【译文】交通政策是一个多学科领域，工程、经济学、社会学和法律必须结合在一起，形成清晰有效的解决方案。尽管交通政策是一个有效干预的领域，但大多数科学出版物都采用理论且通常抽象的方法来讨论交通政策，这使得非资深学者难以理解，对从业者来说更是不透明。尽管案例研究方法对于本科生和研究生教学的优点都得到了认可，但学者们仍在努力寻找实证材料，为所讲的理论和方法提供客观和可操作的说明。这不仅是教学环境中的主要障碍，也是从业者的主要障碍。交通政策案例研究通过提供相关材料库来支持教学和经验的可转移性，从而弥补了这一空白。观察强调实施细节和缺点的现场经验对于展示运输政策如何在操作领域应用、保持与战略选择的一致性非常有价值。通过案例研究进行教学，向学生介绍他们在现实世界中可能面临的挑战，并为各个机构级别的高管培训提供非常丰富的学习方法。对于从业者，特别是政府来说，案例研究是展示政策措施和一揽子计划的潜在好处的有力工具。 《交通政策案例研究》及其姐妹期刊《交通政策》为交通政策专业研究提供了有价值的参考，提供了深入的理论分析和详细的案例研究描述和分析，从而为决策者、规划者和实践者进行经验的可移植性提供了非常完整的材料。