Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance
In this article, I explore the role of experiments in urban mobility governance. I ask to what extent they are responses to the challenges of coexisting timeframes and temporalities and what challenges the latter pose for experiments. My analysis is based on field visits and interviews with urban a...
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In this article, I explore the role of experiments in urban mobility governance. I ask to what extent they are responses to the challenges of coexisting timeframes and temporalities and what challenges the latter pose for experiments. My analysis is based on field visits and interviews with urban administrations and public transport providers in Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Madrid. My results show that urban administrations use experimentation as a form of reflexive, transformative governance. Public transport providers use experiments to navigate tensions between rapid regulatory changes and technological innovation and their long-lived infrastructure. Both actor groups stressed the importance of disruptions as natural experiments. Urban administrations used disruptions for experimentation to fast-track approved but difficult-to-implement projects. The temporary nature of experiments can pose a risk: It makes them vulnerable to political attacks. To mitigate backlash, good timing is critical.
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| spelling | doaj-art-69ccbacbcef742ce8826b3708308e7ff2025-08-20T02:22:10Zdeuoekom verlag GmbHTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis2568-020X2567-88332025-06-0134210.14512/tatup.7221Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governanceFranziska X. Meinherz0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2759-5510Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe In this article, I explore the role of experiments in urban mobility governance. I ask to what extent they are responses to the challenges of coexisting timeframes and temporalities and what challenges the latter pose for experiments. My analysis is based on field visits and interviews with urban administrations and public transport providers in Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Madrid. My results show that urban administrations use experimentation as a form of reflexive, transformative governance. Public transport providers use experiments to navigate tensions between rapid regulatory changes and technological innovation and their long-lived infrastructure. Both actor groups stressed the importance of disruptions as natural experiments. Urban administrations used disruptions for experimentation to fast-track approved but difficult-to-implement projects. The temporary nature of experiments can pose a risk: It makes them vulnerable to political attacks. To mitigate backlash, good timing is critical. https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7221transporturban governancesustainabilityexperimentationtransition |
| spellingShingle | Franziska X. Meinherz Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis transport urban governance sustainability experimentation transition |
| title | Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance |
| title_full | Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance |
| title_fullStr | Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance |
| title_short | Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance |
| title_sort | time timing and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance |
| topic | transport urban governance sustainability experimentation transition |
| url | https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7221 |
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