Browsing by Author "Duman, Oya"

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    Challenges in land use and transport planning integration in Helsinki metropolitan region—a historical-institutional perspective
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-01-01) Duman, Oya; Mäntysalo, Raine; Granqvist, Kaisa; Johnson, Emily; Ronikonmäki, Niko Matti; Department of Built Environment; Planning and Transportation; Department of Built Environment
    Land use and transport integration has been considered a must-have approach in achieving sustainable urban development. However, successful applications of the concept have been few, as institutional reforms to support land use and transport integration have lagged behind. Accordingly, this article argues that understanding difficulties in land use and transport integration requires an analysis of the long-term evolution of formal and informal institutional frameworks in planning practices. For this purpose, this article presents a case study of land use and transport planning in Finland’s Helsinki Metropolitan Region, which combines interview research on planners’ perceptions with a document analysis of the historical trajectories of the region’s plans, policy documents and related institutional and organizational changes. The historical-institutional approach of the article draws on discursive institutionalism as a novel analytical approach for studying how land use and transport integration is institutionally conditioned.
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    From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS, 2023) Mäntysalo, Raine; Granqvist, Kaisa; Duman, Oya; Mladenović, Miloš; Department of Built Environment; Planning and Transportation
    The article proposes a theoretical framework for the application of four scenario-planning approaches in strategic land-use and transportation (LUT) planning, focusing on city-regions. Each approach has a specific role in the process, with a distinct mode of knowing: explanation (knowing what), narration (knowing how), argumentation (knowing to what end and practical judgment) and instrumentalization (doing). The framework is contrasted with reflections from Finnish planning practitioners and applied when reviewing the scenario and impact assessment process of the Helsinki Metropolitan Region strategic LUT plan. The article highlights the key role of explorative scenario planning in strategic city-regional LUT planning.
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    Operationalisation of travel experience in an integrated planning process: City of Lahti case
    (2018-09-24) Duman, Oya; Palomäki, Johanna; Laatikainen, Tiina; Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu; Mladenovic, Milos
    There is an increasing interest in the concept of travel experience due to its critical role in promoting sustainable transport modes. However, the complex nature of people’s travel leads to a multidimensional and sophisticated concept of travel experience. Therefore, travel experience becomes a concept that requires an integrated land use and transport planning approach that can communicatively merge different types of knowledges involved in transport planning. However, there is a gap in planning literature in understanding how travel experience can be effectively used in an integrated planning process, which is also affected by the socio-material context of planning organisations. The aim of this study is to explicate the lessons learnt about challenges of implementing travel experience into an integrated planning process in a mid-sized Nordic city, i.e., Lahti in Finland. The study aims at unravelling the values and conceptions of planners while they are muddling through complexities and interdependencies of human-centric planning issues within organisational dynamics. This study takes a change-oriented, design science approach to the research methodology. Overall, the study shows that practitioners recognise the value of travel experience as a potentially useful planning concept. Findings suggest that practitioners’ values concerning the implementation possibilities of travel experience are at a transition from an instrumental rationality model to communicative rationality model, framed by the interdependencies between usefulness and usability of experiences with travel. Findings also show that technologies used in the planning processes mediate as well as shape the conceptions of planners for operationalising experiential input. Findings also show that practitioners do not always recognise the need for reflection, leading to disruptions in the generation of new units of knowledge. Finally, the dynamic and non-linear model of organisational learning is challenging to capture with the current research methods. Further studies on producing research methods accounting for the sociological side of the planning practice are necessitated.
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    Understanding the interplay of contextual factors affecting the integration of land use and transport planning - The Case of MAL 2019 planning process in Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Finland
    (Aalto University, 2023) Duman, Oya; Mäntysalo, Raine, Prof., Aalto University, Finland; Rakennetun ympäristön laitos; Department of Built Environment; Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering; Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu; School of Engineering; Mladenović, Miloš N., Assoc. Prof., Aalto University, Department of Built Environment, Finland
    Current policy challenges are complex as they are caused by an interplay of natural and anthropogenic phenomena, traversing environmental, social, financial and bureaucratic borders. A key problem in public policies is their fragmented approach to such challenges. The urgency to move away from fragmented public policies has been visible within land use planning and transport planning. Inability to respond to the global crises due to hierarchical and sectoral fragmentation creates new demands for the practices of land use planning and transport planning. An integrated land use and transport planning approach bringing together diverse forms of sectoral expertise, different planning levels and separate administrative units has been proposed to address issues contributing to the global crises. However, regardless of how widely recognised the need for land use and transport planning integration is, effective processes of such integration have proven difficult. There has been a lack of academic research which provides insights into the convoluted nature of conditions influencing the integration of land use and transport planning processes, and elucidates the conditions for their effective implementation from a perspective acknowledging the multi-faceted and situated nature of integrated planning processes. Accordingly, the objective of this research is to provide in-depth process knowledge into the integration of land use and transport planning, by identifying and discussing the interplay of contextual factors affecting integrated processes. This research examines the integration of transport planning and land use planning processes in MAL 2019 planning process in Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Finland. The MAL 2019 planning process is a special case as it is a process specifically designed for integrating land use planning and transport system planning processes. In order to study the lived experiences of planning actors, this research employed interviews and policy document analysis, with supporting validation and visualisation methods. The research also includes a systematic review of factors affecting the MAL 2019 planning process. The findings of this doctoral research shed light on how the context of an integrated land use and transport planning process emerges through the interdependencies between different factors making up the context. The findings emphasise the importance of situating integrated planning processes within their specific contexts, acknowledging the complexity and historical development of factors influencing these processes. The findings challenge the notion of applying "best practice" examples universally and highlight the need to understand what works within each unique context. The findings point towards the most influential contextual factors, providing insights for process design in the context of the MAL 2019 planning process, which can offer valuable lessons to other governance contexts, as well. This knowledge allows for targeted and context-specific recommendations to improve integrated planning processes, enabling planning organisations to enhance their governance capacity.