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The Trans-European Transport Network - A closer look at Policy Failure and the effects of Path Dependence

Helling, Dante LU (2023) WPMM43 20231
Department of Political Science
Abstract
There is a trans-European transport network policy on the supranational level that aims to connect Europe with efficient, sustainable, safe and economically viable cross-national transport infrastructure. Because of this, one could expect EU funding to focus on rail infrastructure, as it has proven to be a low polluting, cost effective and an efficient mode of cross-national transport. However, as of today, and since the policy's adoption in 1996, there has been a disproportionate amount of funding focusing on road infrastructure, which has been shown to be highly polluting, expensive, and relatively inefficient for cross-national transport. This discrepancy is explored through the theoretical perspective of policy failure and path... (More)
There is a trans-European transport network policy on the supranational level that aims to connect Europe with efficient, sustainable, safe and economically viable cross-national transport infrastructure. Because of this, one could expect EU funding to focus on rail infrastructure, as it has proven to be a low polluting, cost effective and an efficient mode of cross-national transport. However, as of today, and since the policy's adoption in 1996, there has been a disproportionate amount of funding focusing on road infrastructure, which has been shown to be highly polluting, expensive, and relatively inefficient for cross-national transport. This discrepancy is explored through the theoretical perspective of policy failure and path dependence and approached through a mixed methods methodology. My findings show that the Trans-European transport network, or the TEN-T policy, should be considered as a partial policy failure, since it has not completed the projects it set out to construct, and that one reason for the lacklustre development of the European rail network could be the Union’s path dependence on road infrastructure. (Less)
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author
Helling, Dante LU
supervisor
organization
course
WPMM43 20231
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
The Trans-European transport network, policy failure, path dependence, mixed method
language
English
id
9115491
date added to LUP
2023-08-27 16:31:50
date last changed
2023-08-27 16:31:50
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  abstract     = {{There is a trans-European transport network policy on the supranational level that aims to connect Europe with efficient, sustainable, safe and economically viable cross-national transport infrastructure. Because of this, one could expect EU funding to focus on rail infrastructure, as it has proven to be a low polluting, cost effective and an efficient mode of cross-national transport. However, as of today, and since the policy's adoption in 1996, there has been a disproportionate amount of funding focusing on road infrastructure, which has been shown to be highly polluting, expensive, and relatively inefficient for cross-national transport. This discrepancy is explored through the theoretical perspective of policy failure and path dependence and approached through a mixed methods methodology. My findings show that the Trans-European transport network, or the TEN-T policy, should be considered as a partial policy failure, since it has not completed the projects it set out to construct, and that one reason for the lacklustre development of the European rail network could be the Union’s path dependence on road infrastructure.}},
  author       = {{Helling, Dante}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Trans-European Transport Network - A closer look at Policy Failure and the effects of Path Dependence}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}