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- Bylund, Jonas, et al.
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Scenarioplanering för hållbar urban tillgänglighet : utmaningar och förtjänster i praktiken
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sammanställning av referat från Transportforum 2024. - Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut. ; , s. 214-215
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- KTH, Norrköpings kommun och Trafikverket deltar i det europeiska FoI-projektet Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures med fokus på hur scenarieplanering kan utgöra ett verktyg för att utforska hur tillgängligheten kan utvecklas, givet stora osäkerheter och komplexitet i samhällsutvecklingen. Projektet bygger kunskap om hur ett brett fokus på tillgänglighet, som en kombination av mobilitet, rumslig närhet och digitala lösningar, kan påverka strategisk trafik- och samhällsplanering och bidra till en mer robust och hållbar samhällsutveckling. Med andra ord: Hur skapar vi institutionell kapacitet för tillgänglighet scenarioplanering för hållbar urban transportplanering? I en workshopserie under hösten 2022 och våren 2023 prövade KTH en scenarioansats för att tillsammans med planerare i Norrköpings kommun utforska framtida urban tillgänglighet n och vilka konsekvenser det skulle kunna få för stads- och trafikutvecklingen. Norrköping är en av sju städer i Europa som deltar i TAP-projektet med liknande undersökningar. Projektet tillämpar kvalitativ scenariometodik, med successiv och gemensam reflektion och utvärdering, tillsammans med trafik- och samhällsplanerare i Norrköpings kommun. Arbetet har gett insikter om förutsättningar och behov för att med scenarioplanering utforska framtida tillgänglighet i en urban geografi, som rör bl.a. följande organisatoriska och institutionella teman: planeringssammanhangets avgränsning och inramning; arbetets integrering med etablerade processer och målbilder; tillgång till data om tillgänglighet; svårigheter att avgränsa osäkerheter som interna eller externa, samt grad av integrering av berörda aktörer och professioner, horisontellt och vertikalt. Resultaten visar på institutionella osäkerheter och behov av stärkt institutionell kapacitet som påverkar förutsättningarna att med scenarier stärka analyser och planering för framtida hållbar tillgänglighet.
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- Eriksson, Linnea, 1984-, et al.
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A climate report gone missing : power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning
- 2024
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Ingår i: European Planning Studies. - : Routledge. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 32:6, s. 1423-1441
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the technological development of vehicles and fuels is not adequate to meet current climate mitigation targets, infrastructure development also plays an important role in transforming the transport system. Previous studies have argued that conventional infrastructure planning is incapable of implementing climate mitigation. The aim of the paper is to provide insights into power means and mechanisms that counteract integration of climate mitigation targets in infrastructure planning. This is done by an in-depth case study of current Swedish national transport planning. This case provides a rich illustration of a situation with high political ambitions regarding climate mitigation on the one hand, and power mechanisms and resistance with regard to climate goals during the planning process on the other. The case is analysed using the perspective of power circuits and shows how forecasting works as an obligatory passage point, sorting in and out which analyses will be part of the decision-making material. Analyses which do not fit the forecasting model are dismissed from planning. The conclusion is that as long as the transport infrastructure planning practice is dependent on forecasting as the only central analysis there will be difficulties in changing the scope of infrastructure planning and making climate goals central for transport planning.
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- Henriksson, Malin, 1981-, et al.
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All Change or Business as Usual? : the Discursive Framing of Digitalized Smart Accessibility in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Transportation Research Procedia. - : Elsevier BV. - 2352-1465. ; , s. 625-636
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, ideas related to digitalization have gained significance on the contemporary transport policy agenda. Based on discourse analysis of the digitalization agenda in Swedish transport policy, this paper investigates the ongoing formative phase of the emerging policy and planning area of digitalization and smart mobility. It examines and critically discusses the current discursive framing of digitalization in current transport policy and planning, and considers perspectives and meanings related to "smart" mobility and accessibility that are being established in strategic plans and policies for the Swedish transport sector. The empirical focus is on transport strategies and official reports developed at national level. The main findings indicate that digitalization is being framed as a rapid, unstoppable transformation process, which will lead to a range of positive outcomes such as reduced climate emissions, less congestion, improved accessibility, and a smoother and more resource-efficient transport system. According to the ideas and assumptions promoted in the current discourse, this transformation can only occur through stronger involvement of business enterprises. This governing strategy, or lack of governing strategy, makes it unclear how transport policy objectives are balanced against market and innovation interests. It also risks delegating the transition to sustainable mobility to less formalized and less transparent policy arenas that operate in parallel to, and partly outside, established planning and strategy-making processes.
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- Isaksson, Karolina, 1973-, et al.
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Discursive power dynamics affecting how climate targets are framed and integrated in national transport planning : The case of Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Discourse Analysis in Transport and Urban Development. - : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. - 9781802207194 - 9781802207200 ; , s. 39-51
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Discursive power dynamics are explored that shape dominant meanings and understandings related to climate mitigation in national transport policy and planning. The research is carried out as a Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis of policy and planning documents from national transport planning in Sweden, focusing on the recent and ongoing rounds of national transport planning. The meanings, problem definitions and suggestions about possible and reasonable ways forward for climate mitigation are examined within the documentation, with specific attention given to the framing of strategic choices and priorities for the future. Five dominant themes are identified on climate mitigation that permeate the documents from national transport policy and planning. Altogether, the discursive framings and meaning making has led to a situation where deep political issues and strategic choices are being avoided and not dealt with explicitly. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion on the need for a changed practice of transport politics and planning.
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- Svensson, Tony, 1974-, et al.
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Institutional Aspects which Influence Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning : A Brief Literature Review
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) has been developed and, to various extent, applied throughout the EU during the 2010s. Apart from handling subject matters of sustainable mobility, SUMPs unavoidably involve issues of governance and the handling of a variety of institutional aspects. Broadening the system boundaries of sustainable mobility with an accessibility focus and accommodating uncertainty by foresight methods further adds to institutional and governance complexity in SUM planning. As part of the research project Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures, this working paper provides an overview of institutional and governance issues which influence sustainable urban mobility planning. The paper attends to the research questions (1) - what does the literature say about the influence of institutional and governance conditions over sustainable urban mobility planning processes?, and (2) - what do insights from research literature imply for SUMP practice? Based on searches in the Scopus and TRID databases, a final selection of 36 articles was made as a basis for overarching insights about the nature of institutional and governance aspects of SUMP that needs to inform the enhancement of the SUMP guidelines. It is found that planners need to be aware of local context; to stick to basic planning principles but allow practical discretion. Institutional and governance factors needs to be attended to throughout the planning process. The literature also points to that there are limits to integration and participation in SUM planning. Planners should consider where and when these aspects icontribute the most. Planning also need to accommodate processual reflexivity, iteration, and local discretion, and the planning organisation would benefit from developing its institutional capacity for handling a developed SUM planning when it comes to a broad pespective on accessibility and uncertainty. Based on these insights and a critical analysis of the current SUMP framework that is informed by the reviewed literature, some modifications of the SUMP process model is brought forward to better acknowledge institutional and governance aspects of sustainable mobility planning.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-
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Approaching transformative futures : Discourse and practice in Swedish national transport policy and planning
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis concerns the need to transform the transport system to meet climate mitigation objectives. It provides insights into how specific approaches and practices in transport policy and planning affect prospects for transformation. It focuses on specific practices and knowledge perspectives in policy and planning, exploration of future uncertainty, and the scope and agency attributed to planning for influencing the future development of the transport system. The empirical interest is directed towards contemporary Swedish national transport policy and planning, analyzed in four articles: organization and procurement of physical planning of road and rail investments (Article 1), an emerging discursive framing of digitalized, 'smart' accessibility (Article 2), the approach to future uncertainty in the national investment plan for transport infrastructure 2018-2029 (Article 3), and an inter-agency collaboration on a plan for a fossil-free transformation of the transport system (Article 4).The thesis follows a qualitative research approach based on a social constructivist and poststructuralist understanding of knowledge as socially constructed and sustained. To highlight the influence of practice and knowledge perspectives on understandings of the future development of the transport system and conditions for transformation, a Foucauldian discursive approach is applied. This approach emphasizes reciprocal dependency between discourse and practice.Results make evident that Swedish national transport planning and policy is largely characterized by a ‘conventional’ approach with dominant quantitative practices and knowledge perspectives, through which the future is mainly portrayed as a continuation of the historical development. The studies show that this approach strongly influence how the transport system and prospects for transformation are understood and described. The thesis illustrates tendencies to avoid issues of future uncertainty, and how this is taken as an argument for not exploring alternative development directions. Consequently, opportunities to influence future development are portrayed as limited. This has a restrictive effect on the conditions for transformation. However, the thesis also shows contexts where future uncertainty is considered as a basic planning condition, which justifies exploration of opportunities for transformation by broader practices and knowledge perspectives.Overall, the thesis makes visible ways in which specific practices and knowledge perspectives exert significant influence over which choices regarding future pathways that are presented to the public and decision makers. A central conclusion regards a need for a more politically oriented discussion on what knowledge and practices in transport policy and practice that are relevant and fit for purpose in the light of the climate mitigation challenge as well as other societal objectives.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-
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Assessment tensions : How climate mitigation futures are marginalized in long-term transport planning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Transportation Research Part D. - : Elsevier BV. - 1361-9209 .- 1879-2340. ; 87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Deep uncertainties in planning and policy-making related to climate mitigation pathways actualises the need for transport planning practices that embrace exploration and assessments of alternative future development directions. While conventional, forecast-based assessment practices are acknowledged to be of limited relevance in assessing potential trend-breaking developments, those practices have become strongly institutionalised and proven difficult to challenge. Applying a discourse perspective, this paper contributes with a practice-oriented analysis of how knowledge perspectives and established assessment practices influenced the consideration of alternative development directions and policy measures in the Swedish 12-year National Investment Plan for road and rail infrastructure 2018–2029. More specifically, the analysis regards how alternative futures and measures aimed at supporting a more ’transport efficient society’ were addressed and assessed. The analysis illuminates a strong influence of established practices over the definition of what is considered relevant knowledge, in constructing an understanding of transport infrastructure investments as insignificant to climate mitigation, and in legitimizing the marginalization of alternative development directions. In effect, the study shows how established practices may result in significant democratic consequences, when public and political discussion over transport futures and climate mitigation pathways is constrained by a narrow span of possible futures presented.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-, et al.
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Embedding Research-led Urban Experiments? : Institutional Capacities and Challenges in Mundane Planning Settings
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Urban Studies. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 2703-8866. ; 3:2, s. 21-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Literature on urban experiments and the role of experimental governance is increasingly focusing on the relationship between experimental processes and existing urban governance and planning configurations. This article aims to develop knowledge about institutional capacity and conditions for embedding experiments in mundane, everyday planning contexts. Based on qualitative interviews and document studies, we draw upon a research-led experiment which introduces digitally supported mobility interventions in a suburban neighborhood south of Stockholm, Sweden. We ask two questions: 1) which case-specific institutional capacities influence the embedding of urban experimentation? And based on this, 2) which general implications follow from the challenges of embedding experimental activities in mundane urban development contexts? Our results illustrate that mundane settings are challenging sites for embedding urban experimentation within broader strategic urban planning and development. In the case studied, limited strategic planning resources and the absence of an up-to-date strategic framing for the neighborhood’s development makes it challenging to integrate, and learn from, the experiment within its broader planning context. Broader implications from this case suggest that limited institutional capacity to embed experimentation in mundane planning settings implies an extended role for researchers to support conditions for embedding. We also identify a need for both researchers and public planning agencies to continuously safeguard democratic legitimacy and prioritization of scarce strategic planning resources. Embedding can be a demanding learning strategy. Involved actors ought to closely assess available capacity for embedding and identify activities which might support embedding in order to establish favorable conditions.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-, et al.
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Exploring new mobility services : insights from three perspectives –public actors, citizens, and market actors
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents illustrative examples of contemporary initiatives involving public actors, citizens and market actors in the mobility sector that intend to contribute to environmentally sustainable and socially just passenger transport. The purpose of the report is to support the discussion of, and reflection on, the role of these actor groups in the development of new mobility solutions. The aims of the report are to: (1) provide insights on business models, governance approaches and citizen participation, based on contemporary examples (2) inspire the design and implementation of mobility solutions in the on-going research program Mistra SAMS. Eighteen contemporary mobility-related initiatives are described. The case descriptions are based on a combination of desk research and interviews with representatives involved in the initiatives. In a concluding discussion, five key recommendations for developing mobility services are provided: • Consider how new mobility services interact with existing mobility solutions (e.g., do the new services integrate, complement, promote or compete with public transport) • Consider possible tensions between market-driven initiatives and long-term public goals, by actively relating the introduction of new mobility services to relevant public governance frameworks, including objectives, strategies, and plans. • Embed the living lab in the local social context, connect to existing organizations and issues, and seek out intersections with other policy areas • Recognize the needs of those expected to use the services through reflexive and inclusive processes, and by engaging citizens • Take opportunities to use the living lab to illustrate and exemplify what socially inclusive sustainable mobility and accessibility could imply
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- Witzell, Jacob
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Physical planning in an era of marketization : conflicting governance perspectives in the Swedish Transport Administration
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Planning Studies. - : Routledge. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 27:7, s. 1413-1431
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Planning of transport infrastructure in Sweden has undergone successive legislative changes as well as neoliberal corporatization and marketization reforms in recent years, with a general aim to increase efficiency and effectiveness. This paper presents planning practitioners’ experiences of far-reaching marketization of physical planning practice in line with a strategy within the Swedish Transport Administration (STA) to become a ‘Pure Purchaser’. The strategy implies that all practical planning work should be carried out by procured consultants. The paper follows a qualitative, explorative approach based on document studies and interviews with practitioners actively involved in carrying out physical planning of road and rail investments. The concept of ‘modes of governance’ is applied to highlight and analytically interpret differences in perspectives on efficient and effective governance as expressed in the planning legislation, and the STA marketization strategy, respectively. The empirical results make evident that the recent marketization reforms are generally perceived as strongly and negatively affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of planning practices while also circumscribing professional discretion. The study highlights the importance of specific organization and management perspectives as explanatory factors in studying efficiency and effectiveness of planning practices.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-
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Planering för klimatomställning : utmaningar och behov i gränssnittet mellan kommunal och nationell transportplanering
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Viable Cities har under 2020 tecknat avtal, så kallade klimatkontrakt, med nio städer i syfte att stärka samverkan för städernas klimatomställning. Under 2021 har ytterligare 14 städer tecknat motsvarande avtal. Med anledning av det arbete som pågår i Viable Cities vill Trafikverket undersöka om det finns hinder rörande organisering och finansiering av transportsystemets utveckling som fördröjer städers omställning. En viktig fråga är huruvida Trafikverkets nuvarande organisation i tillräcklig grad är anpassad för att interagera med kommunerna i omställningsarbetet. I förstudien undersöks dessa frågor genom intervjuer med samhällsplanerare inom Trafikverket och tjänstepersoner i kommunerna Umeå, Uppsala och Göteborg, som alla tecknade klimatkontrakt under 2020. En målsättning är att arbetet ska bidra till städernas klimatomställning. En del av arbetet med förstudien har varit inriktat på att etablera kontaktytor med nämnda kommuner och Trafikverksregioner som skulle kunna bilda en grund för organisering och samverkan i en eventuell huvudstudie. En andra del har handlat om att ge en överblick över strategier och planeringsinriktningar av betydelse för transportsystemets omställning i de tre städerna. En tredje, huvudsaklig, del av arbetet har utgjorts av diskussioner kring nyttor och möjligheter med att genomföra en huvudstudie.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-
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Scenarier i nationell transportplanering : PM till Klimaträttsutredningen
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den nationella transportplaneringen har under senare år mötts av återkommande kritik från remissinstanser och forskning för att den framtida trafikutvecklingen i huvudsak beskrivs utifrån den så kallade basprognos (även kallad referensscenario) som utifrån historiska orsakssamband resulterar i antaganden om en kraftig trafiktillväxt och att det saknas väsentligt alternativskiljande scenarier i de beslutsunderlag och analyser som utarbetasI denna PM ges en översiktlig beskrivning av möjligheter att genom utarbetande av flera olika scenarier och/eller planalternativ i nationell transportplanering generera breddade bilder av hur resebeteenden och transportsystemet kan komma att utvecklas. Scenarier kan, beroende på hur de utarbetas och tillämpas, fylla flera olika funktioner i transportplaneringen. Planering som beaktar flera tänkbara scenarier, som skiljer sig åt vad gäller förutsättningar och möjliga händelseförlopp, kan bidra till en förbättrad hantering av osäkerhet och ökad robusthet i planeringsinriktning och val av åtgärder. Scenarier som utformas med syfte att öppna upp för, och utforska, flera möjliga handlingsinriktningar kan bidra till att synliggöra olika planalternativ, tydliggöra målkonflikter och strategiska vägval, liksom konsekvenser och inverkan på måluppfyllelse som följd av olika alternativ. Väl valda och genomarbetade scenarier kan också stärka tillämpningen av miljöbalkens krav på strategisk miljöbedömning. Därtill kan utarbetande av flera scenarier utgöra en samlande process för att stärka lärande, samverkan och koordinering mellan olika samverkande åtgärder, planerande aktörer, olika politik- och planeringsområden (t.ex. mellan transportinfrastruktur, markanvändning och annan samhällsplanering) och olika planeringsnivåer, förutsatt att scenarier och planalternativ i ökad utsträckning utformas i samverkan.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-, et al.
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Transformative capacity for climate mitigation in strategic transport planning : Principles and practices in cross-sectoral collaboration
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article presents findings from a qualitative in-depth analysis of a four-year Swedish national policy initiative where six public agencies got the task to produce a strategic plan for a transformation towards a fossil-free transport sector. The specific aim of the article is to provide empirically grounded insights on principles and practices of importance for building transformative capacity in strategic, long term transport planning. In the analysis, we have applied the concepts stewarding, unlocking, transforming and orchestrating to explore and discuss transformative features of the policy initiative. Altogether, we found that several elements of transformative capacity were developed through the process. Of specific importance was the open and explorative approach to the task, and the ways in which the organizations involved challenged existing routines, perspectives and ways of working in conventional transport planning. New joint principles for assessment of policy measures for climate mitigation were developed, as well as ways to accommodate uncertainties. However, as the initiative was detached from more established planning settings, the question is whether the new principles and practices will lead to a more substantial transformation of the transport system.
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- Witzell, Jacob, 1981-, et al.
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Transformative capacity for climate mitigation in strategic transport planning–principles and practices in cross-sectoral collaboration
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1523-908X .- 1522-7200.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents findings from a qualitative in-depth analysis of a four-year Swedish national policy initiative where six public agencies were commissioned to produce a strategic plan for a transition towards a fossil-free transport sector. The aim of the article is to provide empirically grounded insights on principles and practices of importance for building transformative capacity in strategic, long-term transport planning. In the analysis, the concepts stewarding, unlocking, transforming and orchestrating are applied to explore and discuss transformative features of the policy initiative. Altogether, several elements of transformative capacity were developed through the process. Of specific importance was the establishment of an open and explorative approach to carrying out the commission, and ways in which the organizations involved started to challenge dominant perspectives and analytical practices in conventional transport planning. Shared principles and practices for analysis and assessment were developed, which allowed for a broadened consideration of climate mitigation measures. However, due to a lack of coordination with formalized planning settings and a lack of political decisions to sustain the commission, there are yet no signs of the work influencing conventional transport planning. Even so, gained experience and insights from this case can inform future change-oriented initiatives.
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