Reflecting on How Social Impacts are Considered in Transport Infrastructure Project Planning: Looking beyond the Claimed Success of Sydney’s South West Rail Link

Mottee, Lara K.; Arts, Jos; Vanclay, Frank; Miller, Fiona; Howitt, Richard

doi:10.1080/08111146.2020.1730787

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“…Between 2017 and 2019, five focus groups/workshops and six semi-structured interviews were conducted in accordance with ethical principles for social research (Vanclay et al 2013) and under a protocol approved by Macquarie University. Participants were invited because of their expertise in EIA, SIA and/or transport and infrastructure development internationally, identified in the literature review as disciplinary experts, or were known to the researcher through their involvement in practice or in the case studies for previous research (see Mottee et al 2020aMottee et al , 2020bMottee et al , 2020c. Consistent with the approved research protocol, the identity of participants and their employers has been kept anonymous in this paper for privacy reasons.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper integrates discussion of recent literature that addresses good practice (Vanclay 2003;Esteves et al 2012;Vanclay et al 2015) and case study material from previous research in Sydney and Amsterdam (see Mottee and Howitt 2018;Mottee et al 2020aMottee et al , 2020bMottee et al , 2020c to better understand the constraints affecting assessment and management of social impacts in transport infrastructure project assessment and approval processes. It introduces insights from critical reflections on practice by key infrastructure professionals and academics.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Another project that highlights constraints on good practice is the case of Sydney's South-West Rail Link (SWRL) (see Mottee et al 2020c). An SIA was completed in the early strategic planning phases, using the project's initial design as the basis for assessment.…”

Section: Strategic Urban Planning and Managing Social Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though monitoring for other environmental aspects was mandated in the SWRL's development approval conditions, there was no requirement to monitor social impacts (Mottee et al 2020c). With no commitment to identifying, monitoring, managing or mitigating social impacts, it appeared that social issues were effectively absent from the project's approval process and conditions.…”

Section: Strategic Urban Planning and Managing Social Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice

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2021

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Social Impact Assessment (SIA) facilitates sustainable and equitable consideration of social issues in transport infrastructure planning. However, SIA practitioners face significant constraints in practice. Good SIA is effective in contributing to institutional mechanisms for holding political, bureaucratic and commercial processes accountable for social outcomes. This paper aims to better understand constraints to the assessment and management of social impacts. Drawing on interviews with expert infrastructure professionals involved in projects in Sydney (Australia), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and internationally, this paper highlights weaknesses in the implementation of SIA, technical engineering-, time-and cost-focused project management practices, and poorly regulated, politically-driven urban governance and planning processes as key constraints. The findings suggest that overcoming those constraints cannot be the sole responsibility of EIA and SIA practitioners and there is more to be considered than practice alone. Instead, this requires an integrated approach across multilevel governance scales and the lifecycle of projects. This paper concludes that for good practice SIA to be realised as intended, systemic adjustments are needed in the planning of urban transport infrastructure, to address constraints and ensure that social impacts are considered in strategic stages and prioritised equally against other project and urban planning issues in decision-making.

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Section: Strategic Urban Planning and Managing Social Issuesmentioning

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Section: Strategic Urban Planning and Managing Social Issuesmentioning

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2021

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“…Furthermore, combining transport infrastructure development (e.g. roads and railways) with local land use developments has been shown to improve the societal, economic and environmental revenue of projects (Arts et al, 2014(Arts et al, , 2016bBertolini et al, 2005;Mottee et al, 2020).…”

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Policy design and infrastructure planning: finding tools to promote land use transport integration

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List of figures VI List of tables VII1. Introduction: A policy design approach to land use and transport integration 1 1.1 Land use and transport integration: an ongoing struggle 2 1.2 LUTI as a concept and how it is pursued 4 1.3 Policy design: finding tools for the job 11 1.4 Policy design and land use transport integration 20 1.5 Research scope and research questions 22 1.6 Research design and process 23 1.7 Outline 29 2. Finding the right tools for the job: instrument mixes for land use and transport integration in the Netherlands 31 Abstract 31 2.1 Introduction 32 2.2 Theoretical background 33 2.3 Methods 38 2.4 Analysis of regional planning practice 40 2.5 Discussion and Conclusion 50 3. The Importance of Policy Design Fit for Effectiveness: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Policy Integration in Regional Transport Planning 55 Abstract 55 3.1 Introduction 56 3.2 Theoretical framework 57 3.3 Research design 62 3.4 Qualitative Comparative Analysis results 71 3.5 Discussion 73 3.6 Conclusion 79 ...IV4. Policy design dynamics: fitting goals and instruments in transport infrastructure planning in the Netherlands 81 Abstract 81 4.1 Introduction 82 4.2 Literature review 83 4.3 Research design 85 4.4 Results 86 4.5 Discussion 92 4.6 Conclusion 95 5. Understanding the ongoing struggle for land use and transport integration: Institutional incongruence in the Dutch national planning process 99 Abstract 99 5.1 Introduction 100 5.2 Analytical framework 101 5.3 Research design 103 5.4 The institutional setting of Dutch PPB system MIRT 106 5.5 Discussion 112 5.6 Conclusions 116 6. Conclusion: Policy design for integrating the planning of land use and transport infrastructure 119 6.1 Addressing the ongoing struggle for land use and transport integration 120 6.2 A policy design approach for land use and transport integration 121 6.3 Discussion of research findings 128 6.4 Reflection and trajectories for future research 134 6.5 Improving land use and transport integration through policy design 137 References 142

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Reflecting on How Social Impacts are Considered in Transport Infrastructure Project Planning: Looking beyond the Claimed Success of Sydney’s South West Rail Link

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice

Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice

Policy design and infrastructure planning: finding tools to promote land use transport integration

Inland Navigation Point Infrastructure as a Source of Transport Planning Decisions

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