ABSTRACT
This Chapter sums up and further examines the evidence presented in the preceding Chapters and returns to the theoretical discussions outlined in Chapter 2 to address the aims of the book which are:
to explain the factors that were influential in national and local transport policy change in the UK between 1950 and 2001 and in the period 1987–2001 in particular;
to explore how policy change occurs and is resisted in policy systems and particularly to examine how new (especially environmental) agendas and discourses are opposed and promoted;
to examine the role of the institutional relations of transport planning in explaining processes of transport policy change and inertia;
to assess whether transport planning underwent a paradigm shift in the period 1987–2001 and to use this analysis to aid understanding of the dynamics of ‘policy paradigms’ and,
to use the above analysis to examine the feasibility of challenging existing patterns of mobility.
