How to design policy packages for sustainable transport: Balancing disruptiveness and implementability

Thaller, Annina; Posch, Alfred; Dugan, Anna; Steininger, Karl W.

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2021.102714

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“…The conceptual steps of IPPA comprise the four phases of design, assessment, evaluation, and discourse. Design means combining several policy measures and interventions into a coherent policy package [20][21][22][23]. Analysis means an interdisciplinary impact assessment in which the various effects of policy packages are assessed ex ante from different disciplinary perspectives [24,25].…”

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The Integrated Policy Package Assessment approach: elaborating ex ante knowledge in the field of urban mobility

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Background In response to climate change challenges, a main policy emphasis is on transitioning the energy system from high- to low-carbon energy supply. The German energy transition is first and foremost based on political decisions and interventions. These decisions need to be assessed ex ante to ensure a good governance approach to energy policies, for which this paper introduces the Integrated Policy Package Assessment approach (IPPA). IPPA consists of four steps: design, assessment, evaluation and discourse. Results The results section illustrates the IPPA framework by applying it to urban passenger transport as an example case. First, the design phase was used to elaborate two complementary policy packages each consisting of several policy measures in the transformation pathways of “multi- and inter-modality”, and “alternative drive”. Second, the individual measures of the packages were impact-analysed by a large number of individual impact studies from various disciplines. Synthesizing the individual study results, we developed an impact assessment matrix for impact evaluation. The matrix covers the impact categories: technology development, sector integration, environment, social resonance, and institutional factors. In a further step, the key findings of the impact assessment were reflected and reviewed from the perspectives of various stakeholders and practice experts through a practice–science dialogue on transforming the urban passenger transport system. Conclusions The discussion and conclusion sections outline the main findings relating to content and process aspects, when applying the IPPA framework to a policy package in urban transport.

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The Integrated Policy Package Assessment approach: elaborating ex ante knowledge in the field of urban mobility

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“…Important socially significant issues are not only the provision of jobs in the territories and material remuneration of workers in the transport sector, but also the development of the public transport system in the country's territories to ensure the accessibility of the population to it [7]. The authors of [8], using the example of Austria, investigate the development of effective and balanced transport policy packages, the basis of which is the provision of infrastructure and spatial planning. R. Strulak-Wójcikiewicz and J. Lemke [9] based on the use of a dynamic approach, the concept of a simulation model for assessing public transport in the economic, social and environmental dimension is presented, which made it possible to integrate numerous indicators and determine the degree of sustainable development.…”

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Instruments for ensuring the balanced development of maritime and inland waterway transport in Ukraine

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In this paper, present the appropriate tools for the balanced development of maritime and inland waterway transport in Ukraine to ensure the implementation of the country’s economic, social and environmental plans. Using statistical data, the main indicators of the development of waterway transport in Ukraine are systematized, which indicate a lack of a technical base for a high-quality and balanced development of waterway transport in Ukraine, irrational use of the territory and water area of ports, their infrastructure, transport routes, as well as a decrease in business entities, which negatively affects the economy country. This points to the need to stimulate the development of waterway transport to increase the number of jobs, improve living conditions of the population, curb migration processes and retain qualified personnel, unload land transport, and save money on road repairs. Therefore, in order to ensure the implementation of the country’s economic, social and environmental plans, an instrumental-logical model has been developed to ensure the co-evolutionary balanced development of water transport in Ukraine, which is based on the use of institutional, legal, financial, economic and information and communication tools.

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“…Several studies have been conducted [12,13] in order to make the operation of transport smoother from a structural point of view, thus making the whole sector more efficient and effective [14,15]. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to the behavioral patterns that characterize user mobility (that represent the focus of the present analysis), although some studies have focused on possible changes in mobility modalities in urban contexts.…”

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A Win-Win Scheme for Improving the Environmental Sustainability of University Commuters’ Mobility and Getting Environmental Credits

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European Union Member States are called upon to meet internationally proposed environmental goals. This study is based, in particular, on the recommendation of the European Union (EU), which encourages Member States to pursue effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, including through appropriate changes in the behavioral habits of citizens. In this respect, among the main sectors involved, transport and mobility should certainly be mentioned. National institutions should be adequately involved in order to achieve the objectives set; in this regard, universities must certainly be considered for their educational value. These latter, for instance, could commit to improving the environmental performance of the mobility of their commuter students (to a not insignificant extent), since commuting modes are often the cause of high CO2 emissions; indeed, they still largely involve the use of internal combustion engines based on fossil fuels. In this paper, the effectiveness of a smartphone-app-based method to encourage commuter students to adopt more sustainable transport modes is evaluated. In more detail, starting from a statistical analysis of the status quo of mobility habits of a sample of students at the University of Palermo (Italy), an improvement of current habits toward a more sustainable path is encouraged through a new application (specifically created for this purpose) installed on students’ smartphones. Then, the daily and annual distances traveled by commuters with the new mobility modes are calculated, and the resulting savings in energy and CO2 emissions are estimated. Finally, it is proposed that the reduced emissions could be converted into energy-efficiency credits that the University could use to enter the emission trading system (ETS), here contextualized within the Italian “TEE” (“Energy Efficiency Credits”) scheme, while the benefits for students participating in the program could consist of reduced fees and free access to university services. The results obtained show the feasibility of the proposal. This approach can be considered a useful model that could be adopted by any other public institutions—not only universities—to facilitate their path toward decarbonization.

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How to design policy packages for sustainable transport: Balancing disruptiveness and implementability

Cited by 41 publications

References 28 publications

The Integrated Policy Package Assessment approach: elaborating ex ante knowledge in the field of urban mobility

The Integrated Policy Package Assessment approach: elaborating ex ante knowledge in the field of urban mobility

Instruments for ensuring the balanced development of maritime and inland waterway transport in Ukraine

A Win-Win Scheme for Improving the Environmental Sustainability of University Commuters’ Mobility and Getting Environmental Credits

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