Preparation of Urban Transportation Planning and Urban General Planning Management:Taking Beijing as an Example

In recent years, urban general planning plays a more and more important role during the urban development process, while its functions are migrating gradually from project-oriented planning to public policies, with its requirements for planning preparation changed from simple emphasis on technique issues to integration with planning management as well as policy-making. Taking Beijing as an example, this paper analyzes the management issues associated with the two-level transportation planning, that is comprehensive planning and sub-division planning. The paper attempts to explain how to better prepare the two-level planning, and how to cope with consistency between planning preparation and urban planning management through discussions on problems existing in current urban transportation planning management.