Subject(s): Public Transportation -- Environmental policy -- Environmental Sustainability -- Sustainable development -- Transportation and stat -- Economic and Finance -- Refocusing transport sector policy : World bank group's experience in transport lending, challenges for transport policy, sustainability as basis of transport policy, need for policy and institutional reform -- Economic and financial sustainability : Competition in market- private ownership and operation, private operation within a framework of public control, making sectoral management more market sensitive -- Environmental sustainability : Combining reduction of transport costs with environmental awareness, priority components of transport strategy, addressing high priority problems -- Social sustainability : Designing general transport policy to help the poor, addressing particular problems of rural poor, mitigating unwanted social effects of transport policies -- Redefining role of governments in transport sector :Establishing a strong institutional framework, setting charges for use that reflect costs, strategic public planning to complement market, community participation- necessary complement to markets -- Role of world bank group in transport sector : Improving performance to transport sectors, partnerships in transport reform, learning systematically from experience