This report was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It is part of the Programme of Work of the OECD’s Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC).
The report was prepared as part of a wider project on Rethinking urban and regional transport needs: improving access, safety and well‑being through transport investment and policies, jointly implemented by the CFE and the OECD’s International Transport Forum (ITF). The financial contributions from the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the support and feedback received at various stages of the project by Lewis Dijkstra are gratefully acknowledged.
The OECD Secretariat would like to thank the numerous local officials and experts that met with the OECD team and provided valuable insights in Madrid, Prague, Vancouver and Romania. In particular, the Secretariat is grateful to Andrew Devlin, Andew McCurran and Kyle Rosenke from TransLink and Heather McNell and James Stiver from Metro Vancouver (Canada); Laura Delgado Fernández and Francisco Javier López Gómez from the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (Spain); Jaromír Hainc and Kristina Kleinwachterová from the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (Czech Republic), and Liviu Băileșteanu and Radu Necsuliu from the Ministry of Regional Development of Romania for their kind assistance in organising the study missions and providing valuable information for the report and case studies.
The report was drafted by Oscar Huerta Melchor, Policy Analyst in the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division, CFE, with inputs from Federica Daniele, Alexander C. Lembcke, Abel Schumann, Antonio Cañamás Catalá and Jared Gars. Alexander C. Lembcke coordinated the overall project under the supervision of Rudiger Ahrend, Head of the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance section in CFE. Charles Victor and Jeanette Duboys provided administrative support throughout the project’s implementation phase.
This report was submitted to delegates for approval by written procedure by 27 November 2020 under the cote CFE/RDPC/URB(2020)21. The final version was edited and formatted by Eleonore Morena and received editorial inputs by Alexandra Taylor. Pilar Philip prepared the manuscript for publication.