Integration in Dutch planning of motorways: From “line” towards “area-oriented” approaches

Heeres, Niels; Tillema, Taede; Arts, Jos

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.08.002

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“…In conclusion, our interviews showed examples of the interrelationships between the residents' living experience and their nuisance perception levels, which underlines the importance of moving towards more integrated policy and planning, connecting highway infrastructure and the environment (Heeres et al, 2012;Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, 2014;. Taking a broader view and accounting for the characteristics of the residential context in mitigating highway nuisance could relieve stress and head off future protests against highway development.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…It also indicates that despite an increasing awareness of the interrelationship between the planning of Dutch highway infrastructure (under the responsibility of the national government) and its broader environment (under the responsibility of the regional/local government), interventions by the two sides are not currently naturally intertwined (e.g. Heeres et al, 2012;Rebelgroup Advisory, 2015). In line with the literature (e.g.…”

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The development of highway nuisance perception

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The perception of highway nuisance i.e. noises, air pollution and barrier-effects, is associated with negative effects on health and quality of life. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the development of highway nuisance perception among residents. Interviews were conducted with residents in 32 households living along the Southern Ring Road, a highway which crosses various neighbourhoods in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands.Various themes emerged from the interviews which were important in the development of residents' perceptions of highway nuisance. For example, our interviews showed that residents who had not explicitly chosen to live next to a highway were more acutely affected by the negative externalities of that highway later. Perceived environmental changes, often due to governmental actions such as new/extended noise barriers, removal of trees and newly constructed buildings causing noise reflection, also played a role in the interviewees' development of nuisance perception. In addition, the interviewees indicated that expectations about future highway developments influenced their current perception of highway nuisance: described as anticipation effects. Interviewees also indicated that recent information about the potentially harmful effects of air pollution increased their concerns about living near the highway. A final theme discussed were differences in the extent to which residents were able to develop coping strategies to reduce the amount of highway nuisance perception.The participants' experiences indicate the importance of further integration between the planning of highway infrastructure and the broader environment in order to reduce nuisance perceptions and improve residential quality near highways.

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“…Interrelatedness of land uses has become more tangible due to a combination of factors. For example, more strict environmental regulations, lower investment budgets and increasing spatial pressures are leading to situations in which planning for one issue is unfeasible without considering the effects on other land uses (Heeres, Tillema, & Arts, 2012a). Enhanced coordination is required among the various interests at the interface of major infrastructures and local or regional spatial interests (such as regional socio-economic development and ecological conservation interests, and local interests in housing, office locations and recreation).…”

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“…Moreover, spatial planning responsibilities are usually organized in silos (Hull, 2008;Hysing, 2009;Kaufman & Smith, 1999). Government bodies and infrastructure development agencies are exploring alternative "integrated" planning approaches as a way of dealing with these problems (Heeres, Tillema, & Arts, 2012b;Heeres et al, 2012a;Tillema, 2012).…”

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Dealing with interrelatedness and fragmentation in road infrastructure planning: an analysis of integrated approaches throughout the planning process in the Netherlands

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2016

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Planning approaches that integrate road infrastructure and other land uses are being increasingly applied. Dealing with functional interrelatedness and stakeholder fragmentation are the main reasons for this. This article conceptualizes and analyses why and how such integrated approaches can be applied effectively throughout consecutive stages of infrastructure planning. The two case studies illustrate that the concept of integration is applied for strategic as well as operational reasons, and they reveal that these reasons may alternate throughout the planning process. Effective integration is therefore dynamic: it appropriately focuses on strengthening the socio-economic perspectives of a region for the longer term, as well as on the relations between different land uses that are physically adjacent and competing for space within a smaller area. Due to fragmented institutional contexts, successfully dealing with interrelatedness requires an intense level of interaction amongst involved actors. Such "coproduction" of visions and plans has two important characteristics: negotiation, and learning about each other's goals. Ultimately the case studies also show that planning at the infrastructure-land use interface needs institutional mechanisms to guide the alterations between strategically and operationally inspired integration. Contracts with private parties, public participation, and positive conditions for learning about each other's referential frames are examples of the institutional mechanisms encountered in this study.

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The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning

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Policy design has returned as a central topic in public policy research. An important area of policy design study deals with effectively attaining desired policy outcomes by aligning goals and means to achieve policy design fit. So far, only a few empirical studies have explored the relationship between policy design fit and effectiveness. In this paper, we adopt the multilevel framework for policy design to determine which conditions of policy design fit—i.e., goal coherence, means consistency, and congruence of goals and means across policy levels—are necessary and/or sufficient for policy design effectiveness in the context of policy integration. To this end, we performed a qualitative comparative analysis of Dutch regional transport planning including all twelve provinces. Outcomes show no condition is necessary and two combinations of conditions are sufficient for effectiveness. The first sufficient combination confirms what the literature suggests, namely that policy design fit results in policy design effectiveness. The second indicates that the combination goal incoherence and incongruence of goals and means is sufficient for policy design effectiveness. An in-depth interpretation of this counterintuitive result leads to the conclusion that for achieving policy integration the supportive relationship between policy design fit and policy design effectiveness is less straightforward as theory suggests. Instead, results indicate there are varying degrees of coherence, consistency, and congruence that affect effectiveness in different ways. Furthermore, outcomes reveal that under specific circumstances a policy design may be effective in promoting desired policy integration even if it is incoherent, inconsistent, and/or incongruent.

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Integration in Dutch planning of motorways: From “line” towards “area-oriented” approaches

Cited by 41 publications

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The development of highway nuisance perception

The development of highway nuisance perception

Dealing with interrelatedness and fragmentation in road infrastructure planning: an analysis of integrated approaches throughout the planning process in the Netherlands

The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning

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