Setting policy & WelTAG
- Setting policy: working at different levels
- Tranlsating levels: relation to WelTAG
- Setting objectives for WelTAG
- Developing options for WelTAG
1. Setting policy: working at different levels
Policy elements
“A course of action taken by government to address the transport needs of its citizens”
Economic, social, environmental needs? Who sets the needs?
Wicked Problems - how we define problems defines solutions.
1.0 Process
social process:
- consulting stakeholders
- defining problems
- establish goals and objectie
- identify & evaluate options
- etablish performance targets
- measure impacts
1.1 Vision
Vision required. “Vision setting”. Declarative vs imperative. Who sets the agenda? Ask the people. Who are the people? Social events
Higher level agenda
- How does it tie in with other land use/economic/political policy?
- This Town Needs More Artists
- That element in WelTAG - where it’s not just about economic activity
- Cross-department working. Future Generations Act - stipulations. Narrow technical, or wide political.
1.2 Goal
What you ultimately want to achieve
1.3 Objectives
- objectives - a way to achieve a goal
- eg limiting car use, improving alternatives
- find a paper to support your point of view! backing
1.4 Targets and indicators
- targets ‘measurable objectives’, have we attained objective?
- indicators intermediate level to indicate progress toward target
- define how things are perceived and what receives attention
- Note on targets
- Absolute - set according to scientific derived limits to system functioning
- Relative - set to improve existing scenario
- Targets - set deliberatively to be meaningful and acceptable
1.5 Baseline/benchmark
- “existing, projected or reference conditions if change is not implemented.”
- what are current trends and how might they be exarcebated in the future
- benchmark is more comparative analysis
1.6 Mechanisms
- “the levers we pull in order to achieve change”
Economic, Social and Environmental - Sustainable Transport Impacts (table)
Bring in literature at all levels, evidence all statements.
Eample of cycling
- In Denmark, urban planning and cycling integrated
- Jack - cycling book, not evidence based, 1980s, used by US & UK govts.
iterative process rather than waterfall? is this possible? Calculate population of Cogan! Transport as medium for meaningful climate action.
2. Relating this to WelTAG
WelTAG objective is goal, WelTAG option is objective and mechanism
Look at report in Week 8 folder Read Jacobs 2018 “good process, bad policy”
3. Setting objectives WelTAG
- Gen national objectives Fututure Generations Act
- Local/regioanl plans
- Transport strategy, net zero strategy - main document is transport strategy wales; all other policies have fed into this
- Objectives based against which policy
- Vale of Glamorgan - policy context is Cardiff, suburb of Cardiff but comes under
- Key into 7 well-being goals: prosperous, resilient, equal, healthier, communities, culture, responsible
- Welsh Transport Strategy slides of our vision, well being ambitions 2021 check out slide
- WelTAG 2017: social, environmental & economic check out tables
- How do you develop a long list of options? Read checklist
- Identify all objectives
- Make sure objectives are cohesive
- Show how you come to the thinking
- Original argument and back it up with evidence.
- Isn’t all academia cherry picking? Yes. So, is it
- Make value judgments explicit
- Summary, read it
Smash neoliberalism out of the park. Dont mind about the name, whatever it takes.