Why does demand-based transport planning persist? Insights from social practice theory

Varsolo Sunio, Alexis Fillone, Raymund Paolo Abad, Joyce Rivera and Marie Danielle Guillen

Journal of Transport Geography, 2023, vol. 111, issue C

Abstract: The need to shift to an equity-oriented transport planning has long been acknowledged, but its use in actual practice by planners and practitioners is limited. Using a dataset from the practice of transport planning in Western Visayas, Philippines, we provide more comprehensive evidence from the perspective of social practice theory for the pervasiveness of the demand-based epistemic framework on public transport planning – both in the planning process and in the elements of practice. Our results reveal a high degree of institutionalization and couplings among the elements which embed them as the underlying rationality at the core of the process and practice, sidelining the elements of equity-based planning. Such couplings manifest in the ways by which meanings are codified into formal practices through a translation into material structures, competences, and routines. We recommend pathways for dis-embedding the demand-based framework and embedding an equity-based epistemic in transport planning.

Keywords: Justice-oriented transport planning; Demand-based framework; Epistemic; Social practice theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103666

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