The governance challenge for future transport

Kate Pangbourne

Chapter 7 in Transport Governance for a Future, 2026, pp 149-179 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explains the relevance of socio-technical imaginaries and the hype surrounding disruptive inventions and business models (often referred to somewhat vaguely as smart mobility), as well as the internal characteristics of collaborative processes, and how these impact outcomes. It connects the concept of societal readiness to technology innovation before laying out the governance challenge posed by hype around ‘innovations’. By combining these factors with the research in Part I, it underpins the introduction of the CATI Transition Momentum Framework (TMF), exploring a range of scenarios for its use. There is an overview of how the CATI TMF might support transport governance to engage more closely with wider environmental issues that have been overlooked in the transport domain and ensure that the transition is systemically sound. The argument is that the need for transitioning transport and mobility onto a socially and environmentally sustainable pathway is now more urgent than ever and requires a wider range of professional literacies than is needed for integrating transport, even though that objective has still to be realised. Steering change from the status quo in transport has been shown repeatedly to be difficult. This arises from factors such as the tendency to govern individual modes independently, thus failing to put into practice a recognition that all transport modes are part of a metasystem of mobility.

Keywords: Imaginaries; Hype; Transition Momentum Framework; CATI; Transport; Environmental Sustainability; Social Sustainability; Steering Change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781802201277
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