Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change discusses various forms of public participation in connection to sustainable mobility, transport planning, policy, health, infrastructure, and active travel, creating a comprehensive analysis relevant for both practitioners and researchers who operate within the transport field.
The role and agency of the public is often a minor consideration for researchers, authorities, and other experts evaluating policy goals, strategies, and instruments within the transport sector. Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change analyses and discusses different forms of participation, challenges, and lessons to be learned across the field.
Chapters discuss various forms of public participation in connection to sustainable mobility, transport planning, policy packaging, health, infrastructure, and active travel, creating a comprehensive analysis relevant for both practitioners and researchers who operate within the transport field.
The Transport and Sustainability series addresses the important nexus between transport and sustainability containing volumes dealing with a wide range of issues relating to transport, its impact in economic, social, and environmental spheres, and its interaction with other policy sectors.
Introduction
Chapter
1. What is public participation in transport in times of change?;
Lisa Hansson, Claus Hedegaard Sųrensen, and Tom Rye
Grass-roots participation initiatives
Chapter
2. Mobilizing for transit-oriented communities in Los Angeles; Lily
Song
Chapter
3. Understanding the multiple roles of participation in Urban
Mobility: An investigation of spaces for participation in Rio De Janeiro,
Brazil; Aline Fernandes Barata, Tim Jones, and Sue Brownhill
Chapter
4. The potential for public participation in planning healthy urban
mobility: the case of Oxford, United Kingdom; Ben Spencer, Tim Jones, Juliet
Carpenter, and Sue Brownhill
Participation in unconventional areas
Chapter
5. Challenges for public participation in sustainable urban logistics
planning: the experience of Rome; Ila Maltese, Alessandro Sciullo, Edoardo
Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, and Tom Rye
Chapter
6. Uncommon commons: civic participation and the localized
maintenance of road infrastructure in Sweden; Jens Alm and Alexander
Paulsson
When public participation throws up unexpected results
Chapter
7. Messaging, emergencies and public discontent: implementing active
travel initiatives during COVID19; Morgan Campbell
Chapter
8. Governing urban transport packages in Norway: understanding
conditions for public participation; Anders Tųnnesen, Julie Runde Krogstad,
and Petter Christiansen
Chapter
9. Does more public participation in local and regional transport
planning lead to better outcomes?; Tom Rye
Conclusion
Chapter
10. The transformational potential of public participation in
transport; Claus Hedegaard Sųrensen, Lisa Hansson, and Tom Rye
Lisa Hansson is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Logistics, Molde University College, Norway. Her research focuses on transport policy, governance of land passenger transport, and sustainable urban development.
Claus Hedegaard Sųrensen is Research Leader at The Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) and connected with the Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport (K2) as well as Mistra SAMS. His research focuses on transport governance and the transformation of the sector to suit a sustainable, climate neutral society.
Tom Rye joined Molde University College, Norway, as Professor of Transport Policy in 2018, and the Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia in 2019. His research focuses on transport training, mobility management, comparative transport policy evaluation and implementation, and parking policy.
