Ökad cykling: professionella utmaningar och hinder i den lokala transportplaneringen

Increasing the share of bicycling: The challenge of professional path dependency in local transport planning

The report aims to highlight reasons why not policy objective of an increased proportion of cycling is achieved in practical planning at the municipal level, and contribute to knowledge about how this “implementation gap” can be reduced. The report is based on research on the implementation of policy to increase cycling in four swedish municipalities. The results show that the implementation gap is partly a consequence of pathdependency. The target of increased cycling is handled within an implementation structure, organizationknowledge- action, where professional groups are characterized by knowledge and skills aiming at optimizing the flow of traffic. This approach serves as a model for operational set of problems and solutions in planning for increased cycling. The substantial work has consisted of building a functional cycling network, improving lane design and other cycling infrastructure measures. Mobility for cycling has increased over the years, but the effects in the form of an increased share of cycling have not materialized. Lack of goal-achievement has not led to a reconsideration of exciting approaches and methods. Officials are instead oriented toward maintaining professional boundaries regarding competencies and choice of action. Concretely this means that accessibility conditions for cycling are not ensured, which further endangers the effects of mobility measures, and other measures of a complementary nature. To change this situation the traffic professions have to develop. The report outline three possible approaches to how this can be done: the development of planning support on accessibility conditions for cycling by national authorities with the role of assisting municipalities in their planning, greater focus and systematics around the investigation of local problems for increased cycling, which the selection of actions should be based on; greater governance in order to establish cross-sectoral work in planning.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.vti.se/sv/publikationer/pdf/okad-cykling-professionella-utmaningar-och-hinder-i-den-lokala-transportplaneringen.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Aretun, Åsa
  • Robertson, Kerstin
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Pagination: 42p
• Serial:
  • VTI Rapport
  • Issue Number: 781
  • Publisher: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • ISSN: 0347-6030

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycling; Local government agencies; Planning; Policy; Travel demand management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Increase; Mobility management
• ITRD Terms: 759: Cycling; 9032: Increase; 192: Local authority; 1118: Mobility management; 143: Planning; 173: Policy
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01495754
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, VTI
• Created Date: Oct 17 2013 10:44AM