A deeper understanding of the crystallization mechanisms should therefore allow one to master the transport properties in POT systems.
Based on analyses of unpublished data from transport master plans, and from interviews conducted with planning experts who worked on such master plans, and from political leaders, this paper assesses how effectively these smaller cities have planned and financed their LRT and trams, and how efficiently they are operated.
In late 2013, the government of Gauteng put forward a 25-year integrated transport "master plan" (pdf).
Austria's transport master plan also provides for improvements in the country's links to the south which will involve massive new tunnels through the Alps, but none of this will happen soon.
In short, the Zensos are not meant to serve as the national transport master plan.
By analysing the development of the transport master plans over time it could be shown clearly that the transport policy became more and more comprehensive over time.
The information used stemmed from an analysis of existing transport master plans and other political documents and reports published in Austria within the last decades.
Most of the countries try to tackle these issues by preparing national transport master plans to address the above-mentioned challenges and to mitigate negative impacts of transportation on society and environment.
Second, there has been a clear lack of strong framework to plan intermodal or multimodal transport master plan on a nationwide scale and to implement it, as the aforementioned planning schemes have been much independent to each other.
Authors of these reviews were invited to consider, in particular: the history of national and regional transport master plans; the procedures for developing national and regional masterplans are made; the institutions involved; the role of public participation; and the frequency of any updates.
In this paper, the main focus is to analyze how Austria has tackled these issues in the last century, which political processes are in place and how successful Austria was/is in the field of preparing strategic national transport master plans (TMPs).
