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TY - JOUR
T1 - Transport planning and participation
T2 - The rhetoric and realities of public involvement
AU - Bickerstaff, Karen
AU - Tolley, Rodney
AU - Walker, Gordon
PY - 2002/3/17
Y1 - 2002/3/17
N2 - The new direction in transport policy, embodied in the 1998 White Paper, has brought with it a sea change in political thinking about the objectives and process of local transport planning. In this paper, we consider 'the realities' of how one cornerstone of this 'new' agenda, a duty on authorities to undertake 'public participation' in producing their local transport plans, has been conceptualised and integrated within the wider planning practice. Drawing on a research project which involved a survey of English highway authorities and a content analysis of policy documents we evaluate experiences in relation to four key principles of the participation process. The paper concludes that whilst there is considerable activity on the surface, evidence of substantive impacts on local transport planning or a strategic approach to the participation process is sparse - a situation which is, we argue, traceable back to the lack of clarity in central government policy and guidance.
AB - The new direction in transport policy, embodied in the 1998 White Paper, has brought with it a sea change in political thinking about the objectives and process of local transport planning. In this paper, we consider 'the realities' of how one cornerstone of this 'new' agenda, a duty on authorities to undertake 'public participation' in producing their local transport plans, has been conceptualised and integrated within the wider planning practice. Drawing on a research project which involved a survey of English highway authorities and a content analysis of policy documents we evaluate experiences in relation to four key principles of the participation process. The paper concludes that whilst there is considerable activity on the surface, evidence of substantive impacts on local transport planning or a strategic approach to the participation process is sparse - a situation which is, we argue, traceable back to the lack of clarity in central government policy and guidance.
KW - Continuity
KW - Inclusivity
KW - Interactivity
KW - Local highway authorities
KW - Local transport plans
KW - Public participation
KW - Transparency
U2 - 10.1016/S0966-6923(01)00027-8
DO - 10.1016/S0966-6923(01)00027-8
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0036188046
VL - 10
SP - 61
EP - 73
JO - Journal of Transport Geography
JF - Journal of Transport Geography
SN - 0966-6923
IS - 1
ER -