Road Transport Services Reform : Guiding Principles for Practitioners and Policy Makers

Overview & Synopsis

The road transport sector continues to be an essential element of modern logistics chains. It connects people to jobs and social amenities, and links production, distribution, and consumption of goods. Countries and regions are different: unique histories, traditions, culture, socio-economic structures, and interests impact the nature and viability of any reforms. This diversity of situations is the reason this Guide opens with a chapter presenting a framework for the diagnostic of the transport sector that identifies common inefficiencies, their causes and effects, and instruments for the collection of reliable and useful data as a first step for the identification of priority reform areas In the discussions on potential road transport reforms between the World Bank and countries, road freight transport was sometimes far from the priority. Rather, passenger transport fleet renewal programs, notably for urban transport, ranked high on the list for the transport sector, complemented by vehicle inspection and scrapping schemes, the modernization of transport documents (DL notably), road safety, and motorization management (including electric vehicles (EV)).This edition of the Guide has been expanded to include, where relevant, these additional topics. While countries interested in road freight transport reform will find relevant guidance in all the chapters and sections of the Guide, it is possible to narrow the focus to a subset of chapters and sections.