Institutional Development and Technical Assistance
In the transport sector the term Institutional
Development has come to be applied to the process of re-orienting
infrastructure owners and service providers to respond to changing
market forces. It applies particularly to countries which undergo
transition from centralised planning to market-driven
economies.
Service providers become focused on customers; infrastructure
owners must respond by providing adequate facilities, efficiently
operated, to attract users.
Typically, a government will need to
understand how to restructure ownership, development, maintenance
and operation of its national transport assets to respond to demand
for transportation. Ownership may need to be changed
(commercialisation and privatisation of assets), strategic
development plans put in place, businesses made transparent and
operation and maintenance programmes restructured. Management may
need re-organising and training.
In Scott Wilson's projects the client may be from the public sector
(facility or fleet owner/operator) or private sector or they may
make a transition from public to private.
Scott Wilson assists in all aspects.
Specialist areas of expertise include:
- Legal and regulatory framework governing the transport
sector
- Traffic demand forecasting
- Revenue generation (tariffs, fees, tolls)
- Engineering (port, airport, rail and road infrastructure)
- Accountancy and financial planning systems
- Operations (cargo handling and storage, passenger movement and
management)
- Business systems
- Maintenance programmes - asset management
- Training in all fields
