Article on Urban Mobility, co-authored by Andrew Switzer, Luca Bertolini and John Grin
This article examines the possible contributions that transition studies can make to better understand the problems that hinder attempts to deliver co-ordination between transport and land-use planning and better integration between modes of transport in urban regions.
The Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning just published an article, co-authored by Andrew Switzer, Luca Bertolini and John Grin.
Recent publications focus on barriers of co-ordination between transport and land use and methods to overcome them. Obdurate social and material structures are the dominant obstacles for change.
In the article, key theories in transition studies are used to characterize and analyze the system of transport and land-use planning. This is then proposed as a conceptual model for the development of the mobility system.
To test its use, a focus-group session in the Noordvleugel region of the Randstad in the Netherlands has been used to test the usability of this model in practice, gauge the participants' reactions to it and to supplement it, if necessary.
By combining insights about how to conceptualise change in socio-technical systems and more specific knowledge about transport land-use planning, this article gives new insight into how a transition towards better co-ordination between transport and land-use planning and the transport network could occur, as well as how it could be hindered.
Article details
Andrew Switzer, Luca Bertolini, John Grin (2013). ' Transitions of Mobility Systems in Urban Regions : A Heuristic Framework'. J. Environmental Policy and Planning., vol. 15, no. 2, p. 141-160.