1st Edition

Transport Models in Urban Planning Practices Tensions and Opportunities in a Changing Planning Context

Edited By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Luca Bertolini Copyright 2014
    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in decades of development work and are geared to offer value-free, academic and explicit knowledge to transport planning experts. However, planning practice has changed dramatically over the years, resulting in a less technical rational view on the use of such knowledge – especially so in early, strategy making phases. More and more complex policy goals, integration of a wide area of other policy domains, a wider, ever-changing and much more mixed group of planning participants and much more focus on ‘wicked problems’. The book maps how this influences the effectiveness of transport modelling exercises and explores several state-of-the-art implementations.

    This book was published as a special issue of Transport Reviews.

    1. The Role of Transport-Related Models in Urban Planning Practice  2. Analysing Models as a Knowledge Technology in Transport Planning  3. From Macro to Micro—How Much Micro is too Much?  4. Integrating Land Use with Public Transport: The Use of a Discursive Accessibility Tool to Inform Metropolitan Spatial Planning in Perth  5. Transport Models and Urban Planning Practice: Experiences with Albatross  6. Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning and Modelling: Addressing Challenges in Research and Practice  7. The Third Limfjord Crossing: A Case of Pessimism Bias and Knowledge Filtering  8. The Usefulness of Transport Models in Swedish Planning Practice  9. Modelling with Systems Dynamics as a Method to Bridge the Gap between Politics, Planning and Science? Lessons Learnt from the Development of the Land Use and Transport Model MARS

    Biography

    Marco te Brömmelstroet is Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the role of knowledge in urban strategy making processes. In real world practices and in more experimental environments, strategies to improve the effectiveness of such knowledge use are tested and improved.

    Luca Bertolini is Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the integration of land use and transport in urban planning processes. His main focus is on how such planning processes can cope with deep uncertainty and how practitioners can supported in this.