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KTH ROYAL INSTITUTEOF TECHNOLOGY
Government’s Role for Transport Infrastructure – a Co-evolutionary ApproachBjörn Hasselgren, PhD
”New Directions in the History of Infrastructure”
Copenhagen September 26-28, 2014
Historical development of roads and railroads
Railroad corporations
Private and state
railroads 1925
• 70 % local and private
• Concessions > 300
• Guarantees, loans
• Government managed major routes
Three governance principles – following the 1930-40s
nationalization
Development over time of transport infrastructure -a
co-evolutionary approach
Technology EconomicsPolitics and
”socio-culture”
Public sector
Private sector
Development of transport infrastructure systems
Important factors for policy formation
Role of 1939-1963 1963-1988 1989-2010
Technology Strong influence Widened use of existing technology
Growing Importance, e.g. ITS and new technology for low emission vehicles
Economics Strong influence cost responsibility and competition
Strong influence growth of welfare economics
Strong influence welfare economics
Politics and “socio culture”
No ideological push behind nationalization
Growing importance and broader political agenda
Strong influence Sustainability and deliberative processes
Public sectorvs.Private sector
The government managed market economy
Competition between transport modes
Preserved government ownership with some opening for alternative financing and privatization
Conclusions
- The co-evolution approach helps to understand and
analyze the development over time
- Shifts between public and private organizational models over time
- The government pragmatic and cautious/reluctant
- Technology will (has) regain(-ed) its importance
Björn Hasselgren, PhD
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Architecture and the Built Environment
+46-70-762 33 16
www.kth.se/blogs/hasselgren
@HasselgrenB