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 is the outcome of a joint project by CFE and the OECD’s International Transport Forum (ITF). The financial contributions by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, as well as the support and feedback received at various stages of the project by Lewis Dijkstra are gratefully acknowledged.
The OECD Secretariat would particularly like to thank Martin Adler, Or Levkovich and Ilias Pasidis, as well as Neil Lee for the preparation of two background papers that underpin this report and Dimitrios Papaioannou of the ITF who provided data, comments and support for the analysis based on the EC-ITF-OECD Urban Access Framework. The OECD Secretariat would also like to thank the numerous local officials and experts that provided valuable insights during the case study missions in Madrid, Prague, Romania and Vancouver - in particular, Andrew Devlin, Andrew 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 project and publication were coordinated by Alexander C. Lembcke under the supervision of Rudiger Ahrend, Head of Division: Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance in CFE. The report was prepared by Federica Daniele with contributions by Oscar Huerta Melchor and Alexander C. Lembcke. Oscar Huerta Melchor coordinated four case studies in three cities Madrid (Spain), Prague (Czech Republic) and Vancouver (Canada) and in Romania’s Central and West regions that include contributions by Jared Gars and Antonio Canamas Catala. Abel Schumann provided additional input for the report. Charles Victor and Jeanette Duboys provided administrative support throughout the project’s implementation phase.
This report was submitted to RDPC Delegates for approval by written procedure by 27 November 2020 under the cote CFE/RDPC(2020)20. The final version was edited and formatted by Eleonore Morena and received editorial input from Alexandra Taylor. Pilar Philip prepared the manuscript for publication.