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The transport debate
An introduction to the transport debate from two experts in the field, following members of the Smith family as they uncover a wide array of transport issues.
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Civic Culture, Community and Citizen Participation in Contrasting Neighbourhoods
This paper uses survey and qualitative evidence from four neighbourhoods in two cities to explore the hypothesis that citizen participation in urban governance is fostered by political structures and public policy as well as by a civic culture supportive of citizen involvement The analysis shows that although the prospects for citizen participation are likely to be least propitious in poor neighbourhoods demonstrating lower educational attainment levels, for example, such factors may be mitigated by political mobilisation and the approaches to urban governance, including citizen participation, adopted by local institutions. Citizen participation may be fostered as much by the creation of opportunity structures that build confidence in the efficacy of participation as by the intrinsic levels of civic culture. The key policy lesson is that the effort devoted to creating greater institutional thickness and participatory structures is not wasted.
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Interrogating the ten-year transport plan
This paper presents an analysis of Transport 2010, the government's ten-year plan for transport. It develops discussions held by members of the RGS-IBG's Transport Geography Research Group (TGRG) in September 2000. It is argued that the plan marks something of a return to previous policies designed to accommodate increasing mobility.
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New Governance Challenges in the Era of ‘Smart’ Mobility
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This chapter seeks to bring more clarity and urgency to the debate about the impacts of ‘smart’ mobility by highlighting the critical role of the state in managing the transition to a ‘smart’ transport future. This debate is currently dominated by producer-led imaginings of how technological innovation will solve apparent mobility problems, but has yet to address substantively more complex questions about how the impacts of these innovations will disrupt the mobility status quo, and how changing patterns of mobility in a ‘smart’ future will redefine the places in which we live. The chapter explores what impacts such innovations might have on the economic, environmental and social outcomes associated with the mobility system, and some key issues that systems of governance will have to address as ‘smart’ options become an increasingly important part of overall mobility provision.
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Travel Behaviour Response to Major Transport System Disruptions: Implications for Smarter Resilience Planning
Much work is already underway by asset managers and service operators to understand current and potential future vulnerabilities and to change the way they manage their assets and investment plans to reduce these vulnerabilities (e.g. Volpe, 2015; DfT, 2015). Whilst it is not possible in this report to provide a definitive statement about the absolute importance of these factors (the content of each event matters and some of the data has not been collected systematically) there is a risk that current methods are over estimating some aspects of short-run impacts (events of a small number of days) where adaptation is more feasible and underestimating the impacts of longer run events or events which occur on multiple occasions.
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Transport in a sustainable urban future
This chapter explores debates over how the role of the car and related policy developments, including neoliberalism, new realism, and the competitiveness agenda, have shaped city transport systems over the last 30 years. It then explores what the uncertain conditions of the post-financial crisis economy may mean for urban transport and its contribution to the sustainable city of the future. It argues that transport is critical to the physical form of the city, and that the opportunities it provides in large part shape the social and economic life of urban places. Urban transport has been a laboratory for regulatory change, with the neoliberal era and its focus on promoting the car contributing to profound changes in the organisation of urban life. The key policy choice for the future of urban transport is between applying new technologies to try and ‘green’ the existing mobility system, such as electric vehicles, and the more radical task of reorganising the city to reduce reliance on motorised transport, especially the private car.
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