TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The curious death - and life? - of British transport policy
JO  - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
A1  - Docherty, Iain
A1  - Shaw, Jon
A1  - Marsden, Greg
A1  - Anable, Jillian
SP  - 1458
EP  - 1479
VL  - 36
IS  - 8
N2  - This article analyses the transport policy record of the 2010-2015 Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition and 2015-2016 Conservative majority UK governments. We argue that the style of policy making under these administrations departed significantly from that of previous decades, which had been characterised by the ascendancy of specific technical disciplines and decision-making norms about how transport planning should be carried out. Our key contention is that despite abandoning the idea of a single, overall narrative for transport policy, these governments (perhaps unwittingly) gave new life to broader debates about what transport investment is actually for and how investment decisions should be made. We interpret this as a shift away from the longstanding idea of a 'deliberate' strategy of intervention to a more 'emergent' approach, which raises important new questions about the future of transport policy both in terms of the objectives it seeks to realise and the relative influence of professional/technical and political actors in the policy process.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2399-6544
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654418764451
ID  - ref1
ER  -