Assessment tensions: How climate mitigation futures are marginalized in long-term transport planning

A tale of two crises: The emergence of an eco-Keynesian coalition in Swedish transport decarbonisation discourse

“…With planning institutions being reformed to facilitate a new political climate featuring weaker central state control, ambitions to actively steer infrastructural development in line with political goals were diminished. Isaksson (2021) and Witzell (2020) further show how such reformed planning institutions struggle to adapt to the political imperatives to decarbonise the transport sector (see also Haikola and Anshelm, fc).…”

Housing Design and Mobility Convenience—The Case of Sweden

“…The cases should be understood in the context of Swedish transport planning and policy which includes national targets of decreasing domestic climate emissions from the transport sector (excluding air traffic) by at least 70 percent by 2030, compared with 2010, and reaching zero net emissions by 2045 [11]. However, Swedish national transport planning maintains a practice where transport infrastructure investments are understood as insignificant to climate mitigation [12]. On a local level, policy and planning practices that do not place all hope in vehicle technology and utilization of electrification and biofuels can be found, especially in metropolitan densely built regions, such as those where the pilot cases are found where restrictions on car use are commonplace and, e.g., public transport is well-developed.…”