126 research outputs found
Coping with interrelatedness and fragmentation at the infrastructure/ land-use interface: The potential merits of a design approach
Get PDFRoad infrastructure projects are increasingly placed in their wider land-use context because of the functional relationships they have with surrounding areas. These more inclusive area-oriented planning processes typically involve a complex of interdependent but institutionally fragmented actors. Effective operationalization of collaborative strategies therefore remains difficult. Various policies introduce spatial design efforts to the infrastructure planning processes as a strategy to deal with these issues. This paper explores experiences in the Netherlands that have placed spatial design in vital positions in the process. An exploration of literature from the fields of spatial design, planning, and geography teaches us that design approaches, in such cases, may be applied to serve as a communicative modus that fosters dialogue, creativity, and eventually an inclusive and shared story about an area’s future. We interviewed designers experienced in serving that role and asked them whether and how such objectives are achieved. Consecutively, in order to come to practical lessons for exploitation of the merits indicated by the interviewees, we studied two projects that the interviewees considered best practices. We conclude that a combination of technical and relational design can effectively help a fragmented group of actors to find a shared and meaningful story and make integral choices on infrastructure projects, framed within a wider area’s development. Ensuring effective iterations between technical and relational design requires institutionalization of the coordinative capacities of design, as well as the right mindset among participants. This way, the employment of such design approaches facilitates effective operationalization of collaborative governance at the infrastructure/land-use interface.Heeres, Niels; van Dijk, Terry; Arts, Jos; Tillema, Taede. (2017). Coping with interrelatedness and fragmentation at the infrastructure/ land-use interface: The potential merits of a design approach. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.5198/jtlu.2016.833
Towards area-oriented approaches in infrastructure planning: Development of national highway networks in a local spatial context
Get PDFBij de planning van snelwegen in Nederland is een omslag van zogenaamde lijngerichte planning naar meer gebiedsgerichte strategieën waarneembaar. De conventionele lijngerichte aanpak lijkt in toenemende mate tot problemen met geld, tijd, kwaliteit en tevredenheid te leiden. Voor een deel is dit te wijten aan de sterke verwevenheid van ruimtelijke functies op het raakvlak van snelweg en het omliggende gebied. Het gevolg hiervan is dat actoren op dit raakvlak onderling afhankelijk zijn en moeten samenwerken. Een gebiedsgerichte aanpak maakt het complexe geheel van belangen en kansen van omliggende gebieden onderdeel van snelwegprojecten. De meerwaarde van gebiedsgerichte planning is dat een dergelijke integrale aanpak kan leiden tot meer duurzame uitkomsten, beter financierbare projecten, en snellere projecten met meer draagvlak. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om lessen te trekken over de toepassing van een gebiedsgerichte aanpak bij de planning van snelwegen. Daartoe onderzoekt het de voor- en nadelen van een gebiedsgerichte aanpak. Daarbij kijkt het onderzoek specifiek naar het creëren, inschatten en benutten van meerwaarde door integrale planning. Op basis van het onderzoek wordt een iteratief proces van zes stappen voorgesteld. Het doel van dit proces is om te bepalen in hoeverre een integrale aanpak noodzakelijk is en, daarna, om richting te geven aan de toepassing van een gebiedsgerichte aanpak. Het onderzoek wordt afgesloten met acht praktijklessen voor de planning van snelwegen
Living near highways: The impact of existing and planned highway infrastructure on residential satisfaction
Get PDFLiving near highways often comes with nuisances (noise, air pollution, barrier effects), but may also bring accessibility gains. This doctoral research provides insight in the impact of existing and planned highway infrastructure on residential satisfaction. The insights are based on a questionnaire among residents in seven highway locations in the Netherlands, complemented with in-depth interviews. Generally speaking, residential satisfaction appeared quite high at the studied locations, and mainly affected by highway proximity in case related positive and/or negative effects are perceived. Residents tradeoff the impact of highways with other residential characteristics. This highlights the importance of an integrated perspective, considering the highway as part of the local environment. The influence of highway projects on residential satisfaction is dependent on how residents tradeoff (expected) accessibility improvements with effects on the broader environment. This tradeoff is influenced by characteristics of projects (such as project-phase and -type) and of areas and residents. Residents who actively participate seem to be somewhat more negative compared to the ´silent´ majority. Considering representativeness, it would be worthwhile to also include opinions of the latter group in highway planning. The findings furthermore suggest that residents are more positive about projects when they are satisfied about provided information and participation possibilities. This satisfaction is related to the quality of what is provided, but also influenced by personal characteristics, such as interest in projects, trust in government, other information sources and socio-demographics. This indicates the importance to always provide a variety of information and participation possibilities
Conceptual frameword for impact assessment of disctance-based road pricing for heavy goods vehicles
No full textDecisions concerning communication modes and the influence of travel time : a situational approach
Get PDFIn this paper we examine the tradeoff between face-to-face (F2F) communication and a telephone call in the situation where people consider discussing something important but not urgent with a good friend located at a distance. In so doing we extend previous studies of communication behaviour in two ways. We develop and employ a situational approach to communication mode choice inspired by time geography and attitude theory and we devote particular attention to the sociopsychological mechanisms driving communication mode decisions. As a consequence, we can analyse the effects of travel time in the physical world on communication choices via and in combination with those of a person’s attitudes, perceptions, desires and past behaviours. Our data collected from Dutch single-earner and dual-earner households suggest that travel time mediates the effects of goal desire, past behaviour and perceived time pressure. When the travel time increases, respondents with a strong desire to discuss something important but not urgent trade a preference for F2F contact for a telephone conversation. Those who have frequently used the telephone in a similar situation before have a lower intention to conduct an F2F conversation but only when the travel time is short. Finally, we see that time-pressured respondents are more inclined to use the telephone when the travel time is longer, presumably because F2F communication involves more time in that situation
Communicating something confidential while travelling by train: the use of a telephone conversation versus silent modes
Get PDFTrain situation, Mobile phone conversation vs. SMS/e-mail, Extended Model of Goal-directed Behaviour (EMGB), Structural equation modelling,
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