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Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway

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  • Rafael Rosales

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Urban freight transport is central to urban societies, and yet urban authorities have traditionally left it to private actors to resolve freight challenges. Urban authorities rely on different governance strategies to address freight that result in fragmented freight governance, as many solutions are fixed in time, sector, or place. Drawing on Bulkeley and Kern’s typology of four modes of governance – self-governing, governing through enabling, governing by provision, and governing by authority – this paper asks: in what ways do urban authorities use different modes of governance in the case of urban logistics? Empirically, the paper looks at the modes of freight governance through an explorative workshop, document analysis, and interviews from Norway’s four largest cities – Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo and Trondheim. It finds that these cities are limiting themselves to ‘less confrontational’ modes based on accommodating freight activities, which hinders institutionalisation of knowledge and prevents public governance from serving as a coordinating factor for urban logistics.

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  • Rafael Rosales, 2024. "Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(12), pages 2473-2492, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:32:y:2024:i:12:p:2473-2492
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2024.2372409
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