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Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead?

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  • Paddeu, Daniela
  • Lyons, Glenn
  • Chatterjee, Kiron
  • Calvert, Thomas

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Transport planning as a formalised profession is relatively young and there is no doubt it has evolved over time. In Europe, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans reflect a change in emphasis from keeping traffic moving to place-based, people-centric planning. Three new developments of significance present themselves to contemporary transport planning: the collision and merging of the digital age with the motor age; a widespread sense of deep (and possibly deepening) uncertainty about the future; and the imperative to address the climate emergency and decarbonise transport. Taken together, such developments are reflected in the recent notion of Triple Access Planning which sits within a so-called ‘decide and provide’ paradigm – contrasted with traditional transport planning within the ‘predict and provide’ paradigm.

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  • Paddeu, Daniela & Lyons, Glenn & Chatterjee, Kiron & Calvert, Thomas, 2024. "Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead?," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 156(C), pages 89-100.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:156:y:2024:i:c:p:89-100
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.07.015
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