Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy

Edited by Anthony Perl, Professor of Urban Studies and Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Rosalie Singerman Ray, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University, USA and Louise Reardon, Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Birmingham, UK

• ContentsForeword xi Preface xiii PART I INTRODUCTION 1 1 Transportation politics and policy: a research agenda 2 Anthony Perl, Rosalie Singerman Ray and Louise Reardon PART II CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY 2 Integrating politics and transport policy through historical institutionalism 17 James Fowler 3 Understanding transport challenges through the lens of wicked problems: recognising the ‘non-rational’ in transport policymaking 33 Dominic Stead and Louise Reardon 4 Beyond speed: transport policymaking in a complex world 48 Wijnand Veeneman 5 Political dimensions of expertise and quantification in transport policy: the cost-benefit analysis revisited 61 Karin Thoresson 6 Multi-level governance, politics and geography in transport 76 Greg Marsden PART III GOVERNANCE FORMS, CONTEXTS AND STYLES 7 Verkehrsverbund: regional coordination of public transport in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 90 Ralph Buehler 8 Collaboration as a mode of transport governance: definitions, conditions and actor interactions 105 Robert Hrelja 9 Limits to collaboration in public transport: a typology 118 Claus Hedegaard Sørensen and Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt 10 The organisational dimensions and paradoxes of smart mobility pilots 133 Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren 11 Urban transport experimentation: a network or hybrid governance process? 146Emilia SmedsPART VI TRANSPORTATION AND THE POLICY ‘CYCLE’ 12 Transport planning and the policy cycle: analysing deployed instruments and their interactions 166Marijn T. van Geet and Tim Busscher13 Transport policy and the policy cycle: from theory to practice 187Renata Lajas and Rosário Macário14 Instrument and technology constituencies in the governance of urban transport 203Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett15 Understanding bus policy implementation challenges: the need for a hybrid approach 216Clare McTigue, Jason Monios and Tom Rye16 Transport policy at an impasse: managing on-street delivery areas in Paris 231Laetitia DablancPART V POLITICISATION OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY 17 Normalising fast driving: the radical revision of traffic safety in the United States, 1920–1940 248Peter Norton18 Discursive institutionalism: changing ideas of flying 263Helene Dyrhauge19 Navigating 21st-century mobility: China’s Belt and Road Initiative as paradigms of state-driven transport transformation 277Meng Yu and Zhenhua Chen20 Gerrymandering access: the politics of urban transport in the age of devolution 297Lauren Ames Fischer21 Is there a transport economy vote?: the electoral effects of unequal access to public transport 312Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit and Petter Christiansen22 Transport policy congruence and its effect on political trust in Norway 329Petter Christiansen and Andreas Kokkvoll TveitPART VI POLITICAL LENSES ON TRANSPORTATION 23 Transforming transport planning: on ‘strife’ as a starting point for change 347Karolina Isaksson and Linnea Eriksson 24 No bus to the transit board meeting: how disabled non-drivers are left out, and why we actually should be planning mobility for all 361Anna Zivarts and Rosalie Ray25 Why isn’t transport policy considered health policy? 376Sarah J. Jones26 Transport, inequality and policy feedback 390Xavier J. Harmony and Anthony PerlPART VII EMERGING METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES 27 Understanding the opposition to low traffic neighbourhoods: a discourse analysis 410Robin Hickman and Andrey Afonin28 The empirical study of urban transport governance 423Philipp Rode and Nuno da Cruz29 Governing transit in a decentralised landscape 443David P. Weinreich and Thomas S. Skuzinski30 Exploratory scenario planning in transport: a review of applications in Western Europe 458Sara Tori, Geert te Boveldt and Imre KeseruPART VIII CONCLUSION 47731 What value does political science bring to understanding transport policy? Insights from the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy 478Anthony Perl, Rosalie Ray and Louise Reardon