Sustainable Development in Local Transportation

The idea of sustainable development is a concept well-known to the local administrations but, although we are not generalizing, the way in which services for the citizens are contracted raise a question mark on the legislation, on the contract awarding procedures and on the quality of services itself. Unfortunately, the beneficiary citizens are oftentimes dissatisfied with these services and, excepting the contract winners, the competing economic agents are not interested in cooperating with the local administrations. In the case of services insured through the state companies, the situation is even more serious because the leaders in the public sector often consider it is not a must to serve the citizen and there is little interest in doing so and the belief that "anything goes" is persistent in the system. What should be done in this case? The local administration should identify efficient solutions to ensure the quality standards for the services provided to the local community, it could facilitate a good governance at the lowest level of administrative decentralization, it should encourage a normal, fair and continuous relationship with the companies providing services, whether they are state, private or mixed companies, as true intermediaries between the local administration and the beneficiaries of such services.