Overcoming barriers to delivering active travel infrastructure: inter-agency collaboration in a state-led neighbourhood redevelopment

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dc.citation.volume22
dc.contributor.authorOpit SL
dc.contributor.authorWitten K
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-12T22:48:04Z
dc.date.available2025-10-12T22:48:04Z
dc.date.issued2025-12
dc.description.abstractThis research investigates the challenges to collaboration government agencies face in delivering active travel infrastructure as part of neighbourhood regeneration projects. Through a sociotechnical systems lens, we examine the influence of governance structures, decision-making processes, and institutional norms on inter-agency collaboration. Drawing on document analysis and key informant interviews, we identify opportunities and challenges faced by housing and transport agencies in coordinating the design and delivery of active travel infrastructure. Challenges include a disconnect between strategic objectives and funding mechanisms, bureaucratic inertia and complexity, and a reliance on informal networks within a complex regulatory structure. Despite these challenges, the research highlights the value of forums for knowledge exchange and relational approaches to collaboration, as well as the potential for pragmatic solutions such as collaborative working groups to overcome structural barriers within sociotechnical regimes. Achieving mode shift towards healthier and more sustainable forms of transport requires formalised effective mechanisms for integration of land use and transport planning. Our findings have implications for policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders involved in shaping urban environments and promoting active mobility as a viable transportation option.
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dc.edition.editionDecember 2025
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6523-9085
dc.identifier.citationOpit SL, Witten K. (2025). Overcoming barriers to delivering active travel infrastructure: inter-agency collaboration in a state-led neighbourhood redevelopment. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 22.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cstp.2025.101617
dc.identifier.eissn2213-6258
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn2213-624X
dc.identifier.number101617
dc.identifier.piiS2213624X25002548
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/73677
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd on behalf of World Conference on Transport Research Society
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X25002548
dc.relation.isPartOfCase Studies on Transport Policy
dc.rights(c) 2025 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectActive mobility
dc.subjectSociotechnical systems
dc.subjectGovernance structures
dc.subjectTransport planning
dc.subjectMode-shift
dc.subjectCollaborative governance
dc.titleOvercoming barriers to delivering active travel infrastructure: inter-agency collaboration in a state-led neighbourhood redevelopment
dc.typeJournal article
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