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Reflection on transition management:: mobility policy between integration and differentiation

par Pel, Bonno
Editeur scientifique Shiftan, Yoram;Geerlings, Harry;Stead, Dominic
Référence Transition towards Sustainable Mobility:, the Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions, Aldershot, Ashgate, Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Concepts and Challenges, page (53-69)
Publication Publié, 2012-07-01

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Many different mobility problems can be distinguished, but a meta-problem seems to consist in the self-propagating dynamics of the mobility system. Due to these dynamics, accomodative optimization strategies typically fail. Traffic management is an example of systemic feedbacks turning optimization into ‘pseudo-solutions’. It illustrates the background of the current quest for integrated mobility policy. Integration proves to be difficult, however, typically running counter to societal differentiation and fragmentation. Reasoning from the desire for integration, fragmentation may be the unfortunate exception; a barrier. But is it? If fragmentation is taken as the rule, as Luhmann suggests, the promotion of sustainable mobility cannot rely on integration attempts only. Transition management is an effort to deal with the limits to integration from an evolutionary viewpoint. Instead of designing a ‘supersystem’, the long-term perspective of transition management may help manoeuver between integration and differentiation. ‘Critical Systems Thinking’ makes operative such effort, refining analysis and guiding solution strategies