ID: 1910
Presenting Author: Charlotta Faith-Ell
Session: 520 - Connecting infrastructure and IA – Assessing impacts in contested planning
Status: pending
Building upon earlier IAIA symposia (2015 & 2024) and workshops at the annual IAIA conferences, this paper aims at taking stock of the state-of-the-art of IA and transport infrastructure development.
Transport infrastructure plans and projects are often contested in society because of their huge impacts on both the physical and social environment. For this reason, transport infrastructure proposals have been subject to Impact Assessment (IA) from the start when IA was introduced. For the same reason, providing careful information and communication is crucial for well-conducted IA in transport planning. Because of this, there is a need for shifting from traditionally dominant project-oriented management in transport planning (focusing on solving bottlenecks and congestion) towards more (adaptive) strategic process- and programme-management approaches, thereby addressing multi-modality, integrated infrastructure and spatial development, visioning and collaborative planning.
Building upon earlier IAIA symposia (2015 & 2024) and workshops at the annual IAIA conferences, this paper aims at taking stock of the state-of-the-art of IA and transport infrastructure development. At this, we want to the multiplicity of transport infrastructure (its multi-scalar, multi-temporal, multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder, multi-level governance characteristics) and the issue of (dis-)information and communication in contested decision making. We focus on the role of IA in the development for transport infrastructure projects (EIA) as well as for policies, plans and programmes on infrastructure networks and mobility (systems) (SEA), and the interlinkages between these (tiering). This paper aims at developing an international handbook on IA and transport infrastructure.
Charlotta Faith-Ell is Associate Professor at Mid Sweden University. Her research focuses on EA, landuse planning, and sustainable built environment.
Coauthor 1: Jos Arts