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Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy
This cutting-edge Handbook explores the many ways in which politics influences transportation policy, planning and implementation, as well as the effects of transportation on political processes. It rigorously analyses the complex interrelation between administration, politics and transportation, presenting theoretical and empirical insights into the governance approaches required to advance transportation’s contribution to social and ecological wellbeing.
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This cutting-edge Handbook explores the many ways in which politics influences transportation policy, planning and implementation, as well as the effects of transportation on political processes. It rigorously analyses the complex interrelation between administration, politics and transportation, presenting theoretical and empirical insights into the governance approaches required to advance transportation’s contribution to social and ecological wellbeing.
Expert authors from across the globe provide a comprehensive overview of the role that politics plays in transportation policymaking, highlighting the value of robust and critical analysis for identifying and developing more equitable and inclusive approaches to transportation policymaking. They examine how society can govern mobilities across multiple scales and explore how the benefits and burdens of transportation are distributed. The Handbook demonstrates how configurations of beliefs, interests, and institutions influence policy and outlines emerging methodologies that can be employed to increase understanding of current and emerging transportation challenges.
Presenting a new perspective on the ongoing scholarly and policy discussions in transportation, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars in transport planning, political science, public policy and administration, regulation and governance, and geography. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking to further understand the political dimensions of transportation.
Expert authors from across the globe provide a comprehensive overview of the role that politics plays in transportation policymaking, highlighting the value of robust and critical analysis for identifying and developing more equitable and inclusive approaches to transportation policymaking. They examine how society can govern mobilities across multiple scales and explore how the benefits and burdens of transportation are distributed. The Handbook demonstrates how configurations of beliefs, interests, and institutions influence policy and outlines emerging methodologies that can be employed to increase understanding of current and emerging transportation challenges.
Presenting a new perspective on the ongoing scholarly and policy discussions in transportation, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars in transport planning, political science, public policy and administration, regulation and governance, and geography. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking to further understand the political dimensions of transportation.
Contents
Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION 1
1 Transportation politics and policy: a research agenda 2
Anthony Perl, Rosalie Singerman Ray and Louise Reardon
PART II CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY
2 Integrating politics and transport policy through historical institutionalism 17
James Fowler
3 Understanding transport challenges through the lens of wicked problems: recognising the ‘non-rational’ in transport policymaking 33
Dominic Stead and Louise Reardon
4 Beyond speed: transport policymaking in a complex world 48
Wijnand Veeneman
5 Political dimensions of expertise and quantification in transport policy: the cost-benefit analysis revisited 61
Karin Thoresson
6 Multi-level governance, politics and geography in transport 76
Greg Marsden
PART III GOVERNANCE FORMS, CONTEXTS AND STYLES
7 Verkehrsverbund: regional coordination of public transport in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 90
Ralph Buehler
8 Collaboration as a mode of transport governance: definitions, conditions and actor interactions 105
Robert Hrelja
9 Limits to collaboration in public transport: a typology 118
Claus Hedegaard Sørensen and Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt
10 The organisational dimensions and paradoxes of smart mobility pilots 133
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
11 Urban transport experimentation: a network or hybrid governance process? 146
Emilia Smeds
PART VI TRANSPORTATION AND THE POLICY ‘CYCLE’
12 Transport planning and the policy cycle: analysing deployed instruments and their interactions 166
Marijn T. van Geet and Tim Busscher
13 Transport policy and the policy cycle: from theory to practice 187
Renata Lajas and Rosário Macário
14 Instrument and technology constituencies in the governance of urban transport 203
Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett
15 Understanding bus policy implementation challenges: the need for a hybrid approach 216
Clare McTigue, Jason Monios and Tom Rye
16 Transport policy at an impasse: managing on-street delivery areas in Paris 231
Laetitia Dablanc
PART V POLITICISATION OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY
17 Normalising fast driving: the radical revision of traffic safety in the United States, 1920–1940 248
Peter Norton
18 Discursive institutionalism: changing ideas of flying 263
Helene Dyrhauge
19 Navigating 21st-century mobility: China’s Belt and Road Initiative as paradigms of state-driven transport transformation 277
Meng Yu and Zhenhua Chen
20 Gerrymandering access: the politics of urban transport in the age of devolution 297
Lauren Ames Fischer
21 Is there a transport economy vote?: the electoral effects of unequal access to public transport 312
Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit and Petter Christiansen
22 Transport policy congruence and its effect on political trust in Norway 329
Petter Christiansen and Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit
PART VI POLITICAL LENSES ON TRANSPORTATION
23 Transforming transport planning: on ‘strife’ as a starting point for change 347
Karolina Isaksson and Linnea Eriksson
24 No bus to the transit board meeting: how disabled non-drivers are left out, and why we actually should be planning mobility for all 361
Anna Zivarts and Rosalie Ray
25 Why isn’t transport policy considered health policy? 376
Sarah J. Jones
26 Transport, inequality and policy feedback 390
Xavier J. Harmony and Anthony Perl
PART VII EMERGING METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
27 Understanding the opposition to low traffic neighbourhoods: a discourse analysis 410
Robin Hickman and Andrey Afonin
28 The empirical study of urban transport governance 423
Philipp Rode and Nuno da Cruz
29 Governing transit in a decentralised landscape 443
David P. Weinreich and Thomas S. Skuzinski
30 Exploratory scenario planning in transport: a review of applications in Western Europe 458
Sara Tori, Geert te Boveldt and Imre Keseru
PART VIII CONCLUSION 477
31 What value does political science bring to understanding transport policy? Insights from the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy 478
Anthony Perl, Rosalie Ray and Louise Reardon
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION 1
1 Transportation politics and policy: a research agenda 2
Anthony Perl, Rosalie Singerman Ray and Louise Reardon
PART II CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY
2 Integrating politics and transport policy through historical institutionalism 17
James Fowler
3 Understanding transport challenges through the lens of wicked problems: recognising the ‘non-rational’ in transport policymaking 33
Dominic Stead and Louise Reardon
4 Beyond speed: transport policymaking in a complex world 48
Wijnand Veeneman
5 Political dimensions of expertise and quantification in transport policy: the cost-benefit analysis revisited 61
Karin Thoresson
6 Multi-level governance, politics and geography in transport 76
Greg Marsden
PART III GOVERNANCE FORMS, CONTEXTS AND STYLES
7 Verkehrsverbund: regional coordination of public transport in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 90
Ralph Buehler
8 Collaboration as a mode of transport governance: definitions, conditions and actor interactions 105
Robert Hrelja
9 Limits to collaboration in public transport: a typology 118
Claus Hedegaard Sørensen and Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt
10 The organisational dimensions and paradoxes of smart mobility pilots 133
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
11 Urban transport experimentation: a network or hybrid governance process? 146
Emilia Smeds
PART VI TRANSPORTATION AND THE POLICY ‘CYCLE’
12 Transport planning and the policy cycle: analysing deployed instruments and their interactions 166
Marijn T. van Geet and Tim Busscher
13 Transport policy and the policy cycle: from theory to practice 187
Renata Lajas and Rosário Macário
14 Instrument and technology constituencies in the governance of urban transport 203
Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett
15 Understanding bus policy implementation challenges: the need for a hybrid approach 216
Clare McTigue, Jason Monios and Tom Rye
16 Transport policy at an impasse: managing on-street delivery areas in Paris 231
Laetitia Dablanc
PART V POLITICISATION OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY
17 Normalising fast driving: the radical revision of traffic safety in the United States, 1920–1940 248
Peter Norton
18 Discursive institutionalism: changing ideas of flying 263
Helene Dyrhauge
19 Navigating 21st-century mobility: China’s Belt and Road Initiative as paradigms of state-driven transport transformation 277
Meng Yu and Zhenhua Chen
20 Gerrymandering access: the politics of urban transport in the age of devolution 297
Lauren Ames Fischer
21 Is there a transport economy vote?: the electoral effects of unequal access to public transport 312
Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit and Petter Christiansen
22 Transport policy congruence and its effect on political trust in Norway 329
Petter Christiansen and Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit
PART VI POLITICAL LENSES ON TRANSPORTATION
23 Transforming transport planning: on ‘strife’ as a starting point for change 347
Karolina Isaksson and Linnea Eriksson
24 No bus to the transit board meeting: how disabled non-drivers are left out, and why we actually should be planning mobility for all 361
Anna Zivarts and Rosalie Ray
25 Why isn’t transport policy considered health policy? 376
Sarah J. Jones
26 Transport, inequality and policy feedback 390
Xavier J. Harmony and Anthony Perl
PART VII EMERGING METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
27 Understanding the opposition to low traffic neighbourhoods: a discourse analysis 410
Robin Hickman and Andrey Afonin
28 The empirical study of urban transport governance 423
Philipp Rode and Nuno da Cruz
29 Governing transit in a decentralised landscape 443
David P. Weinreich and Thomas S. Skuzinski
30 Exploratory scenario planning in transport: a review of applications in Western Europe 458
Sara Tori, Geert te Boveldt and Imre Keseru
PART VIII CONCLUSION 477
31 What value does political science bring to understanding transport policy? Insights from the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy 478
Anthony Perl, Rosalie Ray and Louise Reardon
