Resumen

MOLERO GONZALEZ, Estílita Ynés. Formulation of public Transportation Policy by the Mayor’s Office of Maracaibo in the 1990s: The Role of the World Bank. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.40, pp.667-691. ISSN 1315-9984.

The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the process of formulating urban public transportation policy by the Mayor’s Office of Maracaibo in the decade of the 1990s. Methodology used was to contrast the theoretically supported hypotheses with reality, based on documentary information. Results demonstrated that: 1) Public transportation policy in the 90s was characterized by the evident relationship between state reforms and the economic market-based model. 2) The principal decision-making subject was the World Bank; in the case of the Municipality of Maracaibo, in correspondence with the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Venezuelan Council for Transportation and FONTUR. 3) Actors on the municipal level were: the Presidential Transportation Commission for the City of Maracaibo, the Municipal Institute for Collective Urban Transportation in Maracaibo, the Research Institute for Environmental Systems at LUZ and the company SYSTRA, who were basically the policy executors. 4) The formal process of formulating a transportation policy in Venezuela was developed based on a model pre-established by the World Bank for investment project approval around the world. Conclusions were that, through international technical aid, World Bank criteria were imposed on the transportation policy formulation process in Venezuela, while the municipalities executed the policy although they did not participate in its formulation.

Palabras clave : Public transportation policy; formulation of transportation policies; World Bank.