Workshop 3A: Governance,contracting, ownership and competition issues in public transport: Looking up not down

Workshop 3A focussed on matters of institutional design that seem likely to improve public transport outcomes. It started by defining high level outcome goals, as measures of ultimate public transport success, and then identified the major societal issues that public transport systems can help to resolve. These issues were separately defined for Southern African and western settings. The importance of taking an integrated approach to transport, particularly land use/transport integration, was seen as fundamental to goal achievement. Workshop papers provided many and varied examples of this importance, ranging from PPPs for major public transport projects to system design issues and contracting out of services. The Workshop included detailed discussion on paratransit development in Southern Africa, where relationship management is proving to be critical, in-line with much previous Thredbo discussion about the important role of trusting partnerships. Parallels and contrasts were drawn with paratransit in western settings. Competition in passenger rail was also a focus, with some questioning of the benefits of franchising. Discussion concluded by proposing recommendations for policy and research and suggesting agenda items for future Thredbo Conferences.     

Workshop 6: The public agenda: What is working and what is missing

Workshop 6 topics covered social inclusion, the informal transport sector, transport in developing countries and sustainability. The strong connections and complimentary goals were noted, where solutions to social exclusion and greenhouse gas reduction can both be realised with good transport and urban planning. There is an opportunity for developing countries to avoid the transport mistakes in many developed countries, such as car dependence. This will involve the development of infrastructure that offers accessible public transport to the majority of people, providing resources to the informal transport system and integrating this with public transport. The workshop considered specific issues such as rural transport, new technology, car tolls to subsidise public transport, safety issues with informal transport and the failure to evaluate the longer-term impacts of many major transport infrastructure developments. Recommendations were made in relation to research and policy and future Thredbo topics.     

社会转型期大学生党员发展工作面临的困境与对策研究

大学生党员发展工作关系到为中国特色社会主义事业培养政治合格、理想信念坚定的建设者和接班人的重要使命。文章从社会转型期大学生党员发展工作的现实意义出发,分析了新时期大学生党员发展工作面临的困境,并提出应对困境的对策和建议。     

正确认识和处理"五大关系"是构建和谐社会的本质要求——学习胡锦涛在《全国统战工作会议上的讲话》

胡锦涛同志《在全国统战工作会议上的讲话》深刻论述了正确认识和处理政党关系、民族关系、宗教关系、阶层关系、海内外同胞关系这五个方面的重大关系,是马克思主义中国化的最新成果.正确认识和处理好"五大关系"是构建和谐社会的本质要求,是构建社会主义和谐社会的必然要求.     

Social exclusion: What can public transport offer?

A new workshop on ‘Social exclusion: What can public transport offer?’ was introduced in the Thredbo 10 program. The workshop examined the concept of social exclusion in a transport context, looking briefly at the history and comprehensiveness of the term for social policy in transport. Other concepts, such as well-being and social capital, were determined to be also needed. While important research was reported to the workshop, it was clear that social exclusion was at an early stage of empirical development. Gaps were highlighted, particularly in evaluation and cost-benefit analysis. Examples of service systems designed to address social exclusion were presented at the workshop, revealing the need to better understand governance arrangements. The workshop developed recommendations for future research and policy, particularly emphasising the need to integrate social outcomes with economic and environmental transport policy at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. Finally, ideas for further exploration of social exclusion in Thredbo 11, were outlined.     

网球运动对现代人文化生活影响的探析

采用文献资料、逻辑分析等方法,对网球运动及其文化的内涵进行了探讨,并分析了网球运动及文化的自身功能和现代人文化生活两者之间的关系,得出网球运动对提高现代人文化生活起到了积极的作用和深远的影响。旨在进一步在全国范围内推广网球运动,使其成为现代文明社会中不可或缺的部分。     

社会保障制度改革需要公共政策创新

社会保障制度具有维护社会公平和增进国民福利的本质,福州、东莞、常州等地成功的经验表明,社会保障制度改革需要公共政策创新。     

马克思论人的本质及对科学发展观的启示

马克思运用辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的方法从“现实的人”出发,深刻揭示了人的本质。他认为人的本质是一切社会关系的总和,劳动是人的本质活动。但是马克思对人的本质的认识也是有一个过程的。目前政府在现代化建设中提出了科学发展观的理念,其中以人为本是科学发展观的核心,深刻把握马克思关于人本质的理解对于更好的领会科学发展观的内涵具有重大现实意义。     

抓住时机 大力开发水泥路面机械

本文从水泥路面的重要性出发,介绍了水泥路面施工工艺流程与机械化施工成套设备的初步规划,提出了配套与配合机械产品开发设想,并就其市场需求与产品社会、经济效益进行了初步分析。     

Urban mass transit,gender planning protocols and social sustainability – The case of Jakarta

The discussion within a number of Global South cities is increasingly focused on the planning and implementation of large-scale urban mass transport systems. There is, however, a significant challenge of delivering such large investments in a manner to produce equity in the benefits across different urban spaces and across different social groupings. The transaction costs of urban survival and its associated urban mobility and their differences across gender and other social groups may work against the hypothesised distribution of benefits predicted from traditional individualistic, utility-maximising rational choice planning models. This may affect the social sustainability of such large-scale investments. There is a need for new methods and protocols in transport planning and management to ensure that such transport systems promote social sustainability. The mainstreaming of gender into the planning, financing, implementation, operation and management of such large-scale urban transport systems is a fundamental component for tackling the challenges facing the delivery of social sustainability. This paper will look at a case study of the Jabotabek Suburban Rail and Bus Rapid Transit systems in Jakarta as examples of large-scale mass transit investment. It will draw on survey research that highlights the gender differences in the use of this large urban transport system, gender differences in how the system interacts with geographies of opportunities and daily travel patterns, gender differences in the impact of the systems operation on passenger safety and security. It will highlight the need for new gender and user group protocols in the planning, implementation and management of urban mass-transit systems. It will provide some concrete examples of what measures would arise from such new planning protocols.