Decreasing the share of travel by car. Strategies for implementing ‘push’ or ‘pull’ measures in a traditionally car-centric transport and land use planning
This paper analyzes strategies that can be successfully pursued to implement measures to reduce car traffic in what has traditionally been a very car-centric planning praxis. Analytically, the paper use path dependency theory to provide an understanding of why certain types of measure are not implemented in cities on as widespread a basis as policy objectives may require, and to understand how transport planning path dependence in urban authorities might be changed. Empirically, the analysis builds on a comparative case study of transport and land use planning in Swedish cities. The most effective strategies do not appear to be radical policies leading to fast implementation of goals about sustainable transport, for example by implementing very car restrictive measures, even in the face of resistance from the public and from within the city administration. The results support an approach that from a strategy making perspective can be understood as an institutionalizing process by which internal organizational and external public support for car restrictive and potentially controversial measures are built. Implementation may be achieved by building new institutions within city administrations, where routines and norms gradually change so that car restraint measures gradually become part of the normal way of doing transport planning. This then starts to lock-in certain patterns of travel and make further car restraint measures more feasible and institutionalized as part of a standard menu of measures that cities use, and not something out of the order.
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- © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
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Authors:
- Hrelja, Robert
- Rye, Tom
- Publication Date: 2023-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 446-458
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Serial:
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
- Volume: 17
- Issue Number: 5
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 1556-8318
- EISSN: 1556-8334
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujst20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobile travel; Land use planning; Modal split; Public participation; Sustainable transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation policy
- Geographic Terms: Sweden
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01889622
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 3 2023 11:39AM