Browsing by Author "Witbreuk, Marc"

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Collective Action and Regional Transport Policy
(1995) Witbreuk, Marc
"In the Netherlands the second long term National Transportation plan provides a new direction in transport policy in order to cope with rapidly growing mobility patterns. The plan focuses on both the improvement or the preservation of the accessibility of important economic centres and the reduction of environmental impacts of transportation. A prominent policy instrument to attain these goals is the restructuring of the organization in terms of the allocation of responsibilities, competencies and financial means in the field of transportation policy. Because of deficiencies in the coherence and effectiveness of former national policy schemes and the awareness that transportation has a maximum functional coherence at a regional scale, the government has launched incentives to create new regional public authorities in this respect. In principal, cooperation between participants in these regions should emerge volunarily. The purpose of the paper is to describe and discuss the problems, impacts and potentials of this reorganization process. For the sake of illustration a particular case, the Twente region, will be highlighted. In the paper the theory of collective action will be used to examine the cooperation in the organization of the transport region of Twente. According to the theory, the prospects for a successful furthering of the common objectives are unfavourable. Present cooperation does not prove the contrary. An attempt will be made to build a model for predicting the prospects of a continuing voluntary cooperation in regions."
The Effectiveness of Co-operation: Regional Transport Networks as Common Pool Resources
(1998) Witbreuk, Marc
"The paper deals with regional transport networks and its management as a common pool resource. Problems with respect to this man-made common pool resource is with regard to the theory of collective action a new area of interest. In the paper the effectiveness of co-operation is analysed. It is focussed on describing and explaining effectiveness in terms of relevant factors and their interrelationships, both in a qualitative and quantitative way. Important contributions are the presentation of an integral model for the effectiveness of co-operation using a dynamic systems approach, the operationalisation of model variables and the empirical validation of the model."
Planning and Organization of Transport-Policy on a Regional Scale: The Twente Case
(1995) Witbreuk, Marc
"One of the main questions of the study is: How do present theories, which describe cooperation to attain some common goods, refer to the process of setting up organizations (i.e. transport regions) and the functioning of these organizations (i.e. transport regions)? Which theory (present or to build) can explain these processes? In this paper some preliminary conclusions with respect to this question will be presented. Some remarks will be made about the character of the objectives of Dutch transport policy. Subsequently game theory and theory with regard to collective action will be presented. This theory will be used to describe and evaluate some developments in a particular transport region, the Twente case."
Regional Cooperation in the Management of Transport-Systems
(1996) Witbreuk, Marc
"In the Netherlands, rapidly growing mobility patterns cause problems with respect to livability and accessibility. To cope with these common problems (public goods), the present administrative structure seems to be inappropriate. The possibility of achieving economies of scale and internalization of external effects exert a partly centralizing and a partly decentralizing influence on the administrative structure. Theoretically, this pressure may be met by voluntary cooperation between relevant units. Practically, processes of regionalization do appear, because the regional scale seems to be the appropriate level to deal with transport policy. Transport-flows do show a coherence at the regional level. Besides, transport systems fo meet the requirements of public goods to some extent. Therefore, regional transport systems may be considered to be a kind of common pool resource (or public good) with respect to the regional users. "In the paper, the (more or less voluntary) cooperation between the users (managers) of the transport system, represented by municipalities and other parties concerned, will be described and explained. A causal model, modeling the variables that influence the cooperation between users (or managers), will be presented. This model will be used to value the cooperation in several regions in the Netherlands. These case studies may validate the presented model."