Movilidad personal y política de infraestructuras en la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco: aprendiendo del pasado para diseñar el futuro

This paper covers the transport infrastructure policies related to personal mobility in the Basque Country. Its purpose is to establish processes which rebuild the experience gained from the actual impact of investment in the last decades, and to consider those processes as the only learning source to make current decisions. After insisting on a view which admits the complex and systemic nature of the transport sector, problems related to public transport and road policies are studied. The research concluded with six proposals: the establishment of a Civil Service able to act in a transversal way; the revision of the outlines for project evaluations; the establishment of new indicators to measure the actual public transport contribution; the search for new financing sources; the opportunity which real-time information systems represent; and the convenience of introducing every five years subsequent revisions of the contribution of great projects.