Mobility Management: Sustainability Option for Sofia's Urban Transport Policy? Learning from the experience of Lund and exploring its transferability to Sofia
(2007)The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- Abstract
- This paper addresses the problem of urban transport management in Sofia ? the capital city of Bulgaria. It highlights the tensions and contradictions in the current policy and practice and suggests that the adoption of mobility management in policy making would elevate municipal capacity to deal with complex transport-environment conflicts and set the framework for a sustainable development of the transport system. To support the claim, the successful mobility management practice of the city of Lund (Sweden) is studied.
The paper examines EU policies and initiatives on advancing the notion and employment of mobility management on a general level, and analyses how Lund and Sofia develop the idea and practice of sustainable transport on a... (More) - This paper addresses the problem of urban transport management in Sofia ? the capital city of Bulgaria. It highlights the tensions and contradictions in the current policy and practice and suggests that the adoption of mobility management in policy making would elevate municipal capacity to deal with complex transport-environment conflicts and set the framework for a sustainable development of the transport system. To support the claim, the successful mobility management practice of the city of Lund (Sweden) is studied.
The paper examines EU policies and initiatives on advancing the notion and employment of mobility management on a general level, and analyses how Lund and Sofia develop the idea and practice of sustainable transport on a local such. By focusing both on the socio-institutional dimension of the policy making and the sustainability assessment of the management plans, the analyses explicate the different ways in which the urban transport problems are framed and institutional relationships are (re)constituted, the differing approaches to the institutionalisation of the problems, and the different socio-technical logics of transport management embodied in the plans. From the analyses the lessons of success from Lund and the limiting factors for Sofia's sustainable transport development are outlined.
A key finding is that there is a pressing need for an intervention in the urban transport management in Sofia oriented towards a state of transport demand management. In relation to this, major improvements and reforms are needed in the organisation and functioning of the socio-institutional components in the policy field, as well as a design of a specialised sustainable urban transport plan.
The conclusion drawn is that mobility management can assist the transformation from the ?asphalt regime? to sustainability by providing solutions for the organisation and management of the planning process and strategies to be adopted and implemented through a sustainable urban transport plan for Sofia (Less)
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- author
- Raeva, Dragomira
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- urban transport management, mobility management, sustainability assessment, urban transport, EU policies, transport management, Sofia?s sustainable transport, Environmental studies, Miljöstudier
- language
- English
- id
- 1325428
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abstract = {{This paper addresses the problem of urban transport management in Sofia ? the capital city of Bulgaria. It highlights the tensions and contradictions in the current policy and practice and suggests that the adoption of mobility management in policy making would elevate municipal capacity to deal with complex transport-environment conflicts and set the framework for a sustainable development of the transport system. To support the claim, the successful mobility management practice of the city of Lund (Sweden) is studied.
The paper examines EU policies and initiatives on advancing the notion and employment of mobility management on a general level, and analyses how Lund and Sofia develop the idea and practice of sustainable transport on a local such. By focusing both on the socio-institutional dimension of the policy making and the sustainability assessment of the management plans, the analyses explicate the different ways in which the urban transport problems are framed and institutional relationships are (re)constituted, the differing approaches to the institutionalisation of the problems, and the different socio-technical logics of transport management embodied in the plans. From the analyses the lessons of success from Lund and the limiting factors for Sofia's sustainable transport development are outlined.
A key finding is that there is a pressing need for an intervention in the urban transport management in Sofia oriented towards a state of transport demand management. In relation to this, major improvements and reforms are needed in the organisation and functioning of the socio-institutional components in the policy field, as well as a design of a specialised sustainable urban transport plan.
The conclusion drawn is that mobility management can assist the transformation from the ?asphalt regime? to sustainability by providing solutions for the organisation and management of the planning process and strategies to be adopted and implemented through a sustainable urban transport plan for Sofia}},
author = {{Raeva, Dragomira}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Mobility Management: Sustainability Option for Sofia's Urban Transport Policy? Learning from the experience of Lund and exploring its transferability to Sofia}},
year = {{2007}},
}