What if large infrastructure project processes adopted a coevolutionary character? Discussing the merits and consequences for the OOSTERWEEL link project, ANTWERP

All rights reservedVan Brussel, Suzanne2023-11-162023-11-162017978-989-99801-3-6 (E-Book)https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/978Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017In the quest for a more sustainable mobility, present mobility planning approaches do not prove effective. In particular in the case of large infrastructure projects (LIPs) this becomes manifest; realising LIPs has become tremendously difficult these days, resulting in many stranded projects. Previous LIP-research has shown that complexity is behind these struggles, in all its facets. Although decision makers often still focus merely on financial, technical and legal issues of complexity (Flyvbjerg, 2007; Priemus, 2007), it becomes increasingly clear that the influence of social and organizational complexity is heavily underestimated with respect to planning processes and procedures, see Figure 1 (Hertogh & Westerveld, 2010).EnglishopenAccessWhat if large infrastructure project processes adopted a coevolutionary character? Discussing the merits and consequences for the OOSTERWEEL link project, ANTWERPconferenceObject2813-2823