This cutting-edge Handbook explores the many ways in which politics influences transportation policy, planning and implementation, as well as the effects of transportation on political processes. It rigorously analyses the complex interrelation between administration, politics and transportation, presenting theoretical and empirical insights into the governance approaches required to advance transportation’s contribution to social and ecological wellbeing. Expert authors from across the globe provide a comprehensive overview of the role that politics plays in transportation policymaking, highlighting the value of robust and critical analysis for identifying and developing more equitable and inclusive approaches to transportation policymaking. They examine how society can govern mobilities across multiple scales and explore how the benefits and burdens of transportation are distributed. The Handbook demonstrates how configurations of beliefs, interests, and institutions influence policy and outlines emerging methodologies that can be employed to increase understanding of current and emerging transportation challenges. Presenting a new perspective on the ongoing scholarly and policy discussions in transportation, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars in transport planning, political science, public policy and administration, regulation and governance, and geography. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking to further understand the political dimensions of transportation.

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Contents Foreword 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? 146 Emilia Smeds PART VI TRANSPORTATION AND THE POLICY ‘CYCLE’ 12 Transport planning and the policy cycle: analysing deployed instruments and their interactions 166 Marijn T. van Geet and Tim Busscher 13 Transport policy and the policy cycle: from theory to practice 187 Renata Lajas and Rosário Macário 14 Instrument and technology constituencies in the governance of urban transport 203 Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett 15 Understanding bus policy implementation challenges: the need for a hybrid approach 216 Clare McTigue, Jason Monios and Tom Rye 16 Transport policy at an impasse: managing on-street delivery areas in Paris 231 Laetitia Dablanc PART V POLITICISATION OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY 17 Normalising fast driving: the radical revision of traffic safety in the United States, 1920–1940 248 Peter Norton 18 Discursive institutionalism: changing ideas of flying 263 Helene Dyrhauge 19 Navigating 21st-century mobility: China’s Belt and Road Initiative as paradigms of state-driven transport transformation 277 Meng Yu and Zhenhua Chen 20 Gerrymandering access: the politics of urban transport in the age of devolution 297 Lauren Ames Fischer 21 Is there a transport economy vote?: the electoral effects of unequal access to public transport 312 Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit and Petter Christiansen 22 Transport policy congruence and its effect on political trust in Norway 329 Petter Christiansen and Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit PART VI POLITICAL LENSES ON TRANSPORTATION 23 Transforming transport planning: on ‘strife’ as a starting point for change 347 Karolina 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 361 Anna Zivarts and Rosalie Ray 25 Why isn’t transport policy considered health policy? 376 Sarah J. Jones 26 Transport, inequality and policy feedback 390 Xavier J. Harmony and Anthony Perl PART VII EMERGING METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES 27 Understanding the opposition to low traffic neighbourhoods: a discourse analysis 410 Robin Hickman and Andrey Afonin 28 The empirical study of urban transport governance 423 Philipp Rode and Nuno da Cruz 29 Governing transit in a decentralised landscape 443 David P. Weinreich and Thomas S. Skuzinski 30 Exploratory scenario planning in transport: a review of applications in Western Europe 458 Sara Tori, Geert te Boveldt and Imre Keseru PART VIII CONCLUSION 477 31 What value does political science bring to understanding transport policy? Insights from the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy 478 Anthony Perl, Rosalie Ray and Louise Reardon