o The economic sector contains a group of opportunities, with high impact on the region.
Both the industrial sector as well as the tourism sector are the ones with more
potentialities;
o The new infrastructures of the road network (A8 and IC9) represent opportunities for the
municipality. The quality of the access offered should be taken into account.
o The bad services offered by the railroad tend to diminish the opportunities such as
stations locations and low connection times.
3.5 Table of options
The table of options was set to structure and make very clearly the short, middle, and long-term
actions were proposed. We made an effort to have proposals to all the all the sectors analysed,
and all trying to achieve one of the three objectives defined at the beginning of the study:
o The Intra Municipality relation
o Urban Parking in Alcobaça
o The territory competitiveness at a regional scale (West Region)
One of the objectives to fulfil with this table was to have a synthetic and easy to read tool that
could be easily perceived by the decision-maker. The diagnosis report, also included at this
study, was important but mainly directed to municipality technicians. The options report by the
contrary had to be as specific as possible in order to be interesting to the decision-maker (and
this was a main reason why this table of options need to be as clear as possible). The strengths
of the solution were listed and fragilities taken into account with the proposal of complimentary
systems (Table 2 presents an extract of the original table).
This table intended to issue two main subjects: 1 Municipality Intra-Relationship; 2. Territorial
Competivity at a regional Scale, by using the most important subjects and cataloguing its short, middle,
and long term Measures-Objectives-Desires.
As pointed at Table 2, in order to compile the most important information in a short and clear way
to the decision-maker it was important to structure the interventions also using colour information.
The result is a very clear and plain synthesis table, and this is a very powerful planning
instrument when negotiating or transmitting this information.
Besides the table of options, a brief justification of the measure proposed and its cross effects
would it provoke (positive and negative ones) composed the entire study. For instance regarding
public transport, there was a brief explanation about the measures that should be taken to make
public transport more attractive to different users.
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Colour |
Theme |
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Municipality Intra-Relationship____________________________ | |
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Territorial Competitivity at a regional Scale_______________ |
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