Climate policy in national transport planning – a power analysis, POMAK
The aim of this project was to provide insights about formal and informal institutional conditions and power relations that shape the integration of climate consideration into strategic decisions about long-term transport infrastructure development in Sweden. The project was carried out from January 2018 to December 2021.
The project focused the process of long-term national transport planning, which is a critical case for understanding the integration of climate considerations in long term political decision making on transport.
The project comprised the following research tasks:
- Mapping the key (formal and informal) arenas, actors, processes and practices that shape long-term national transport policy and planning in Sweden.
- Identifying explicit and implicit norms and perspectives related to transport, climate and societal development expressed in these arenas/by these actors and in the processes/practices in focus.
- Exploring tensions, conflicts/conflicting rationalities and how these are expressed and managed in practice, in key arenas and by key actors, throughout the transport policy and planning process.
The project was carried out by means of a qualitative methodological approach with an emphasis on in-depth interviews with planners and decision makers. The work also included analyzing the content of documents that investigate, analyze and consolidate the direction of the transport system's long-term development.
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Presentations
Research team
Linnea Eriksson, VTI
Karolina Isaksson, VTI
Christina Lindkvist, Malmö Universitet
Reference group
Joanna Dickinson, Naturvårdsverket
Mattias Höjer, KTH
Emma Lund, Trivector
Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt, LTH
Tim Richardson, NMBU
Karin Winter, Trafikverket and KTH