ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the challenges of transport: what ought to be considered part of an integrated transport system, and what lessons can be drawn from existing transport practices and technologies that show the way to integrated transport. The new institutionalism also pays attention to the informal aspects of institutional life, particularly networks of actors and their cultural norms subsisting within and between formal hierarchies. Exemplifying the new institutionalism in the transport policy field, Dudley and Richardson and Vigar have developed powerful analytical frameworks to explain, in institutional terms, policy change and continuity in the British post-war transport domain. In common language a 'sustainable' urban transport system is one that meets a variety of goals other than simple mobility. Transport systems are not simply technical machines that appear on the urban scene in automatic response to problems of mobility. In the domain of transport policy the institutional dimension of policy formation takes a variety of forms.
