Making transport planning more collaborative? The case of Strategic Choice of Measures in Swedish transport planning

Tornberg, Patrik; Odhage, John

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2018.09.020

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“…The SCM intends to strengthen the dialogue and collaboration between the STA and other stakeholders, in particular with representatives from municipalities in order to facilitate the coordination of transport planning and land use planning. Tornberg and Odhage [14] set out to investigate if SCM represents a collaborative platform for planning activities and concluded that SCM has collaborative features, however, these features are framed in a wider institutional context in which a rational approach to planning dominates. In addition, the prevalence of collaborative features in an SCM varies between SCM processes.…”

Section: Early Stages Of Transport Infrastructure Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The legitimacy of planning processes like SCM is highly dependent on the actors' willingness to engage and to commit to the proposed measures that results from the SCM process [14]. The importance of the willingness of actors' commitment to investment in issues associated with the transport system became more important with the reforms that were implemented in 2010.…”

Section: Early Stages Of Transport Infrastructure Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since the SCM includes collaborative features [14], the process offers an opportunity for stakeholders to participate in, commit to, and affect the outcome of the SCM process. However, according to the guidelines, only invited stakeholders are involved in the SCM process, which implies that no open consultation with other stakeholders is conducted.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Through the introduction of the SCM, the STA increased their coordination with other stakeholders in order to integrate transport planning with other planning activities, for example land use, which indicates that there are high expectations placed on the STA's engagement regarding societal development. According to Tornberg and Odhage [14], it is difficult for the STA to meet other actors' expectations. This study shows that actors in the SCM had different expectations on who are responsible for handling environmental impacts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The SCM process has been defined by the Swedish Transport Administration [13] as a state-led transport planning practice with a focus on dialogue and collaboration between multiple actors. Previous studies reveal challenges with the application of the SCM; for example, the legitimacy of the SCM is highly dependent on the actors' willingness to involve and commit to the measures that are suggested in the SCM [14]. Still, there is limited knowledge on how environmental aspects, e.g., noise, air quality, water, landscape, and health are to be considered in the SCM process and the type of early stage transport planning that it represents.…”

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Challenges and Opportunities in Early Stage Planning of Transport Infrastructure Projects: Environmental Aspects in the Strategic Choice of Measures Approach

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The Strategic Choice of Measures (SCM) approach aims to integrate different perspectives and identify measures to adapt new infrastructure projects to their local context at an early stage of Swedish transport planning. SCM is a loosely structured framework for collaboration between actors from, e.g., municipalities and the Swedish Transport Administration, in order to facilitate the coordination of transport planning and land use planning. This paper aims to explore the consideration of environmental aspects in early-stage transport planning by analyzing the SCM approach. An explorative research approach is applied based on literature studies, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group interview. The result shows that in the SCM process, environmental aspects such as noise and air pollution generated by road traffic in urban areas, engage the actors, whereas aspects related to landscape and water were perceived as poorly addressed and received less attention. The consideration of environmental aspects in the SCM process is affected by the local and national authorities’ different interests and the competences involved. To consolidate environmental aspects in early transport planning, these aspects need to be explicitly addressed in the SCM guidelines and the link between the SCM and preceding and following planning stages needs to be strengthened.

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Geographic analysis has long supported transport plans that are appropriate to local contexts. Many incumbent ‘tools of the trade’ are proprietary and were developed to support growth in motor traffic, limiting their utility for transport planners who have been tasked with twenty-first century objectives such as enabling citizen participation, reducing pollution, and increasing levels of physical activity by getting more people walking and cycling. Geographic techniques—such as route analysis, network editing, localised impact assessment and interactive map visualisation—have great potential to support modern transport planning priorities. The aim of this paper is to explore emerging open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning, with reference to the literature and a review of open source tools that are already being used. A key finding is that a growing number of options exist, challenging the current landscape of proprietary tools. These can be classified as command-line interface, graphical user interface or web-based user interface tools and by the framework in which they were implemented, with numerous tools released as R, Python and JavaScript packages, and QGIS plugins. The review found a diverse and rapidly evolving ‘ecosystem’ tools, with 25 tools that were designed for geographic analysis to support transport planning outlined in terms of their popularity and functionality based on online documentation. They ranged in size from single-purpose tools such as the QGIS plugin AwaP to sophisticated stand-alone multi-modal traffic simulation software such as MATSim, SUMO and Veins. Building on their ability to re-use the most effective components from other open source projects, developers of open source transport planning tools can avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ and focus on innovation, the ‘gamified’ A/B Street https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/#abstreet simulation software, based on OpenStreetMap, a case in point. The paper, the source code of which can be found at https://github.com/robinlovelace/open-gat, concludes that, although many of the tools reviewed are still evolving and further research is needed to understand their relative strengths and barriers to uptake, open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning already hold great potential to help generate the strategic visions of change and evidence that is needed by transport planners in the twenty-first century.

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Making transport planning more collaborative? The case of Strategic Choice of Measures in Swedish transport planning

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Challenges and Opportunities in Early Stage Planning of Transport Infrastructure Projects: Environmental Aspects in the Strategic Choice of Measures Approach

Challenges and Opportunities in Early Stage Planning of Transport Infrastructure Projects: Environmental Aspects in the Strategic Choice of Measures Approach

Transport Pooling: Moving Toward Green Distribution

Open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning

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