Sustainable national transport planning and institutional change

SUSTAIN user forum

at CBS, 27 November 2013

National Sustainable Transport PlanningVisit: http://wwwx.dtu.dk/Subsites/sustain.aspx

”Theme C”:

Institutional change

Welcome to Department of Business and Politics

• Founded as the International Center for Business and Politics in 2004

• Became a Department at CBS. Susana Borras HoD

• Focus on ”political economy” in a broad sense, i.e. intersection between business and politics; markets and governance; often with an international perspective on corporations and regulatory structures

Purpose & methodology

The purpose of this theme is to understand the relationship between new organizational forms (such as privatized corporations and public-private partnerships), transport planning processes, and sustainable transport performance.

The main methodology is to do comparative case studies, including process tracing

The analysis will include document analysis and semi-structured interviews with key informants.

Analytical framework

The analytical framework draws its inspiration from institutional theory in comparative political economy and theories of changing organizational forms in a new governance perspective (Osborne, 2010).

The transport sector continues to undergo significant institutional changes. During the era of New Public Management (NPM), services have been outsourced to private sector contractors who are pursuing performance management targets.

Recently, governments and private sector companies have formed joint ventures and public-private partnerships for new opportunities in transport management.

Post-NPM reforms have emphasized the need of coordination and regulatory reforms (Sørensen & Longva 2011).

Analytical framework (1)

National sustainable transport planning

Institutional change

Analytical framework (2) unpacking ”institutional change”

• Critical juncture• Positive feedbackPath

dependency

• Displacement• Layering• Conversion• Drift

Institutionalchange

mechanisms

Analytical framework (3)

National sustainable transport planning

New conditions for planning: contracts and regulatory agencies

Sustainability through government or corporations?

New governance tools that challenge ”planning”

Contracts Independent regulatoryagencies

Partnerships and private finance?

Institutional change in the New Public Management era: more focus on markets

Marketization (= regulated markets) Management (make managers manage)

Can national sustainable transport planning happen in a competitive, but regulated market with (international)

corporations?

National sustainable

transport planning

Internationalmarkets for

transport infrastructure and mobility(led by) corporate managers?

Core results (expected)

The core results of the theme will be a comparative analysis of institutional frameworks of national transport planning in selected countries leading to improved knowledge of institutional change, sustainable transport performance and politics.

Recent presentations

Christensen, L.T & Greve, C. (2013) “No Policy for Public-Private Partnership? PPP, Collaboration and Institutions. The Bumpy Road of Transport Policy Development in Denmark” Paper presented to the 2nd CBS-Sauder-Monash conference on public-privat partnerships, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 13-14/6-2013

Christensen, L.T. (2013) at Thredbo-conference on delivery sustainable transportGreve, C. (2013): “Public-Private Partnerships in Turbulent Times”. Presentation at

KPMG conference on PPP and finance 1 October 2013 in CopenhagenHodge, G. (keynote speech) and Greve, C. (expert panel). 5-7 November 2013 in

Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium at the international conference arranged by Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp in cooperation with f.ex. EU Cost Action TU1001: PPP in Transport: Trends and Theory”. Conference theme: “Global Challenges in Public-Private Partnerships: Cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary solutions?” http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*TPR&n=112187

Recent publications

Christensen, L.T. (2013): “Modes of Governance in Partly Privatized Public Service Provision. The Case of Danish Passenger Rail” (in review – Review of Transport Economics Journal (Elsevier))

Greve, C. (2013). Columns for “Altinget – website on transport policy”. 2 Columns: “PPP: Learn from Canada” and “OECD’s principles are relevant for PPP in the transport sector”

Martin, L.; Lawther, W. Hodge, G. & Greve, C. (2013): “Internationally Recommended Best Practices in Transport Financing Public-Private Partnerships” Journal article: Public Administration Research (Canada) 2(2), pp. 15-25.

Hodge, G. & Greve, C. (2013): “Public-Private Partnership in Developing and Governing Mega-Projects” in Priemus, H. Wee, B.v. (eds.). International Handbook on Mega-Projects. Chelthenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 182-208 - November 2013.