Highlights ► Large-scale transitions towards low-carbon transport systems form a new challenge. ► To understand this challenge, the paper introduces a new multi-level perspective into transport studies. ► The perspective is illustrated with an application to the auto-mobility system in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Abstract Climate change and deep cuts in CO2 emissions require transitions to new kinds of transport systems. To understand the dynamics of these transitions, this paper introduces a socio-technical approach which goes beyond technology fix or behaviour change. Systemic transitions entail co-evolution and multi-dimensional interactions between industry, technology, markets, policy, culture and civil society. A multi-level perspective (MLP) is presented as a heuristic framework to analyze these interactions. The paper aims to introduce the MLP into transport studies and to show its usefulness through an application to the auto-mobility system in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. This application aims to assess the drivers, barriers and possible pathways for low-carbon transitions.
A socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transitions: introducing the multi-level perspective into transport studies
Journal of Transport Geography ; 24 ; 471-482
2012-01-01
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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