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This policy brief presents key messages, findings and recommendations for the transport sector.

This report is a continuation of the work that has been described in D 2.1 “Report on energy efficiency potentials in the transport sector”. These two deliverables provide key insights about the EU-28 transport sector and form the basis of the quantification of synergies among all sectors. This report is mainly focused on the quantified assessment of different energy efficiency scenarios for the EU-28 transport sector in 2050. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the methodology ofanalysis; followed by a detailed explanation of the methodology behind creating an EU 28 transport baseline and energy efficiency transport scenarios. This chapter also details the workings of the AAU’s scenario modeling tool TransportPLAN used for the analysis. In addition, it also describes the work done for creating different future energy efficiency scenarios including the calculations performed for alternative growth rates and modal shift rates. Finally, the results are presented in Chapter 3 and a short note on discussions and recommendations is provided in Chapter 4.

Thisreport illuminates potentials for energy saving within the transportation sector in the EU/EFTA area through energy efficiency measures for bringing about a modal shift from energy-demanding to more energy-efficient modes of transportation and reducing the movement of persons and goods.

Håndbogen beskriver, hvad lokale energifællesskaber er, sætter disse i relation til den omstilling, som det danske energisystem har været igennem i de sidste mange år og de udfordringer, det står over for. Håndbogen beskriver samtidigt konkret, hvordan et lokalt energifællesskab kan etableres som en juridisk enhed samt en række tekniske løsninger, der kan være relevante i forbindelse med etablering af lokale energifællesskaber

Bogen bygger på projektet 'Varmeoptimerede Bygninger', der var et samarbejde mellem Energiforum Sydhavn og HOFOR. Den grundlæggende tanke i projektet har været, at man er nødt til at se fjernvarmesystemet, bygningens varmeforsyningssystem og bygningens klimaskærm som et sammenhængende system, hvis der skal opnås større og varige energibesparelser og komfortforbedringer. Der er på basis af et års konkrete analyser udarbejdet en strategi for, hvordan man varmeoptimerer bygninger:- Først optimeres driften af varmecentralen- Så ses der på muligheder for optimering af varmeanlægget- Og til slut ses der på muligheder for fysisk optimering af bygningen

The provision of heat and electricity are for many citizens, small shops and enterprises a concern when paying the bills but are at the same time not something that they easily understood and approached in technical terms. Neither is the current need for a transition toward a renewable based integrated and flexible energy system well understood though the icons of renewable energy such as wind turbines, solar cells and heat pumps often are well known and supported. The involvement of local heating managers and dwellers and the change of everyday practices is at the same time crucial to reach the goals for energy savings.The project: Energy Forum Sydhavn has the purpose of making energy savings and transitions become real beyond the actual results from energy renovations of buildings. In projects involving utilities, building owners, operators, tenants, shops and companies including also technology providers we set targets and organize socio-technical change agendas and structure project that make these changes become real. In the project, we operate with concepts for how to involve actors and how to configure topics, goals and actor constellations.This is reflected in the energy systems transition literature with the focus on local, engaged ownership as well as cities and regions as drivers of a new wave of change. At the same the organizational obstacles, the existing energy institutions routines and practices and a lot of visionary window dressing from the side of city and government authorities tend to reduce the real impact of the transition. This is often even hidden behind attempts to recruit citizens and politicians to trust in short term market based solutions and privatization. While the ideal type sustainable energy transition is well outlined in models of future renewable energy bases societies the transition processes include controversies and a continued need to change the visions and actor constellations that drive the transition. The provision of heat and electricity are for many citizens, small shops and enterprises a concern when paying the bills but are at the same time not something that they easily understood and approached in technical terms. Neither is the current need for a transition toward a renewable based integrated and flexible energy system well understood though the icons of renewable energy such as wind turbines, solar cells and heat pumps often are well known and supported. The involvement of local heating managers and dwellers and the change of everyday practices is at the same time crucial to reach the goals for energy savings.The project: Energy Forum Sydhavn has the purpose of making energy savings and transitions become real beyond the actual results from energy renovations of buildings. In projects involving utilities, building owners, operators, tenants, shops and companies including also technology providers we set targets andorganize socio-technical change agendas and structure project that make these changes become real. In the project, we operate with concepts for how to involve actors and how to configure topics, goals and actor constellations.This is reflected in the energy systems transition literature with the focus on local, engaged ownership as well as cities and regions as drivers of a new wave of change. At the same the organizational obstacles, the existing energy institutions routines and practices and a lot of visionary window dressing from the side of city and government authorities tend to reduce the real impact of the transition. This is often even hidden behind attempts to recruit citizens and politicians to trust in short term market based solutions and privatization. While the ideal type sustainable energy transition is well outlined in models of futurerenewable energy bases societies the transition processes include controversies and a continued need to change the visions and actor constellations that drive the transition.

[Abstract] This working paper presents the TRANSIT open-access online database on Critical Turning Points (CTP) in Transformative Social Innovation. It specifies the contents of the database, comprising qualitative accounts of more than 450 ‘critical’ episodes in the evolution of social innovation initiatives in 27 different countries. Providing the theoretical-methodological context to these data, the paper also describes the theoretical background of the CTP concept and the methodology though which the CTP accounts have been reconstructed through interviews with members of SI initiatives. The paper concludes with reflections on the open access CTP database as a knowledge infrastructure, discussing its significance in terms of mapping, dissemination and framing of social innovation. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 613169

A previous version of this paper has been part of TRANSIT Deliverable 3.3 (July 2016), the second prototype of TSI theory. [Abstract] This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics of transformative social innovation (TSI) that have been developed as part of an EU-funded research project entitled “TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory” (TRANSIT; 2014-2017). These TSI propositions represent first steps towards the development of a new theory of TSI, taking the form of proto-explanations of the agency and dynamics of TSI, based on the bringing together of our empirical observations on TSI and the project's theoretical reviews and theoretical framings. Ideally this working paper should be read in conjunction with the working paper entitled “A framework for transformative social innovation” (Haxeltine et al 2016) which presents in skeletal terms the theoretical and conceptual framing of TSI developed in the TRANSIT project. This TSI framework builds on sustainability transition studies, social innovation research, social psychology studies of empowerment and other several other areas of social theory to deliver a bespoke theoretical and conceptual framework that is grounded in a relational ontology and which is being employed as a platform for the development of a middle-range theory of TSI. Next we provide a very brief overview of some key elements of the framework, in particular how we conceptualise social innovation, transformative change, and transformative social innovation. Propositions were developed for each of four relational dimensions implied by the TSI framework with also a brief statement of the topic addressed by each of the twelve propositions. This article is based on research carried out as part of the Transformative Social Innovation Theory (“TRANSIT”) project, which is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under grant agreement 613169

This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics oftransformative social innovation (TSI)that have been developed as part of an EU-funded research project entitled “TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory” (TRANSIT; 2014-2017). These TSI propositions represent first steps towards the development of a new theory of TSI, taking the form of proto-explanations of the agency and dynamics of TSI, based on the bringing together of our empirical observations on TSI (Jørgensen et al. 2016) and our theoretical reviews and theoretical framings (Haxeltine et al 2016).

This chapter explores the future of technical networks from the perspective of local aspirations for sustainable forms of flow management as expressed by LA21 initiatives. LA21 has been selected because it is oriented to local planning and development, calling on local authorities to develop plans to pursue the objectives and measures laid down in the Agenda 21 document at a municipal level in a consultative process with local people and institutions. Furthermore, this document expressly targets energy, water and waste issues as key policy fields for the sustainable management of natural resources, identifying the need to 'modernize existing power systems to raise energy efficiency and develop new and renewable energy sources', to 'protect the integrity of aquatic ecosystems' and to 'minimize the creation of waste, and to ensure that wastes are re-used, recycled and safely collected and treated' (Keating, 1993).

A previous version of this paper has been part of TRANSIT Deliverable 3.3 (July 2016), the second prototype of TSI theory. [Abstract] This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics of transformative social innovation (TSI) that have been developed as part of an EU-funded research project entitled “TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory” (TRANSIT; 2014-2017). These TSI propositions represent first steps towards the development of a new theory of TSI, taking the form of proto-explanations of the agency and dynamics of TSI, based on the bringing together of our empirical observations on TSI and the project's theoretical reviews and theoretical framings. Ideally this working paper should be read in conjunction with the working paper entitled “A framework for transformative social innovation” (Haxeltine et al 2016) which presents in skeletal terms the theoretical and conceptual framing of TSI developed in the TRANSIT project. This TSI framework builds on sustainability transition studies, social innovation research, social psychology studies of empowerment and other several other areas of social theory to deliver a bespoke theoretical and conceptual framework that is grounded in a relational ontology and which is being employed as a platform for the development of a middle-range theory of TSI. Next we provide a very brief overview of some key elements of the framework, in particular how we conceptualise social innovation, transformative change, and transformative social innovation. Propositions were developed for each of four relational dimensions implied by the TSI framework with also a brief statement of the topic addressed by each of the twelve propositions. This article is based on research carried out as part of the Transformative Social Innovation Theory (“TRANSIT”) project, which is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under grant agreement 613169

Parts 2 and 3 examined recent changes in the way technical networks are managed from an infrastructure perspective, that is, from the viewpoint of network managers and others directly engaged in providing or using utility services. A distinctive feature of the forces currently transforming urban network management is that they have emerged from outside the sphere of local planning. The changes documented earlier are not the product of local planning or policy making but of other factors such as new regulatory frameworks, changing patterns of resource use or new technologies.

This section has explored the contribution and response of local environmental planning to the new logic of infrastructure management emerging in response to regulatory, commercial and technological changes. Three case studies have documented in different ways how these shifts in infrastructure management are being reflected and considered in the arena of local planning, from formalized activities of spatial or sectoral planning to Local Agenda 21 initiatives. Focusing on the issue of interconnectedness between local environmental planning and infrastructure management, the section has identified how and why connection is currently limited, what new opportunities for linkage are emerging under the new conditions and what knowledge is necessary to improve linkage to the benefit of urban environmental performance in the future.

The INFORSE case consists of an analysis of the transnational network INFORSE (International Network for Sustainable Energy), the Danish local initiative VE and the Belgian local initiative APERe. All three are dealing with renewable energy and energy savings. The link between INFORSE and VE is strong, whereas there is almost no contact between INFORSE and its Belgian member APERe. The three parts are summarised in the following. This is followed by a short summarising conclusion concering what we learn about how social innovation interacts with other forms of transformative change from the INFORSE case.

Kapitlet præsenterer planlægningsprocessen i Egedal Kommune omkring Stenløse Syd og viser, hvordan kommunen strategisk har navigeret i processen ift at promovere og muliggøre energieffektivt byggeri.

Kort beskrivelse af København som 'Smart Energy Region', del af COST Action TU1104

Kort oplæg baseret på Yana Shevchenko's Master Thesis - om problemerne i at fastholde expats og kommunernes rolle i en globaliseret verden.

This paper presents a comparative socio-technical discourse analysis of WUSD for Melbourne and Copenhagen. Despite Melbourne appearing to have progressed further, the technology pathways are very similar, suggesting significant potential for transfer of insights and policy mechanisms. However, there are some fundamental differences in the underpinning ontology of WUSD policy makers and pratitioners, which provides more nuanced insights into how best to apapt the knowledge transfer process. This paper presents a comparative socio-technical discourse analysis of WUSD for Melbourne and Copenhagen. Despite Melbourne appearing to have progressed further, the technology pathways are very similar, suggesting significant potential for transfer of insights and policy mechanisms. However, there are some fundamental differences in the underpinning ontology of WUSD policy makers and pratitioners, which provides more nuanced insights into how best to apapt the knowledge transfer process.

In the last decade, due to climate change impacts, increasing urban development, increased stress on natural resource and gradual aging of the technical infrastructure on place, the Danish urban water sector has realized the need to invest more generously on the optimization of technical performances and the innovation of management approaches in favor of non-structural measure and more integrated perspectives. On one hand, municipal plans have put an increasing attention on terms like urban livability, resilience and sustainability mostly resulting on an increasing focus on the need to create green and blue recreational spaces in the city-scape. On the other hand, in a context of economic downturn, national strategies aim at promoting the eco-innovation of the water sectors to support the Danish water industry competitiveness in the international market and create new jobs nationally. At the same time, a series of institutional changes were actuated: in 2007, reforming local government structures and redistributing environmental policy planning responsibilities at the local and national scale and, in 2009, formalized a first step toward the liberalization of water utilities in order to regulate water prizes by creating a benchmarking system to set precise terms for a national competition on water service efficiency. The expectations were increased capacity for municipality to regulate and water utilities to actuate the necessary investments and lower or more homogenous water taxation for users. Such cascade of changes was expected to contribute to destabilize the Danish urban water regime, preparing for the acceleration phase of a radical socio-technical transition towards more integrated approaches to urban water management. However, using the MLP as analytical lens along a 100 years timespan, the urban water regime seems to have experienced a sequence of transformation pathways characterized primarily by the reorganization of regime actors, who appear to be very fast in responding to external pressures and thus favoring only incremental niches to emerge and stabilize. But, if the same transformations are placed in a co-evolving urban context, we observed that the water regime has largely contributed to radical changes at the urban scale. By undertaking such a broader perspective, we found increasingly relevant the role of power, politics and agency in advancing or hindering urban transitions. Furthermore, we found very useful the concept of multi-regime interactions to better characterize the influence of co-evolving regimes and the consideration of geographical and spatial scales to analyze the existing tensions between national strategies and municipal plans in a complex process of urban transformation. We concluded that the transition of the urban water regime is still ongoing and it will depends on the ability of internal, external actors and intermediaries to develop a shared and more holistic understanding and definition of problems and needs to co-create a path which could contribute to “better” urban futures.

Denne rapport rummer en diskussion af kreativitetsdiskursens etablering og udfoldelse i Danmark og analyse af seks konkrete danske cases. Gennem en teoretisk analyse og de seks casestudier diskuteres hvordan “kreative miljøer” etableres og faciliteres med et særlig blik på sammenhænge mellem de fysiske faciliteter og mere procesmæssig facilitering. Rapportens resultater er dels en kritisk diskussion af diskursen, dels en præsentation af en række forskellige perspektiver på facilitering af kreative miljøer. De seks cases spænder over både mindre organisationer og virksomheder til bykvarterer og byer, og de teoretiske perspektiver søger tilsvarende at præsentere og til en vis grad at koble perspektiver på by- og regionalforskning, på ledelse og organisationsudvikling og læring samt på kreativitet og innovation og teknologisk udvikling The discourse of creativity has hit the societal debate during the last decades in relation to cities, businesses and society as a whole. The strength of the creativity discourse can be seen in the fact that the UN has implemented creativity in diagnosing a better future for the global society (United Nations 2008). Furthermore, the year 2009 was labelled the “Year of creativity and innovation” by the European Union. In this report we explore the development and implementations of this discourse in Denmark by a theoretical analysis and by six Danish case studies, with a special emphasis on exploring how creative environments are facilitated and on the relationship between facilities and facilitation?

This paper describes the second semester CDIO project of the B.Eng. in Traffic and Transport study. A number of similar papers describe the other DTU B. Eng. programmes in order to document how the CDIO concept is being implemented across the various programmes. These papers will accompany an exposition with stands providing additional information and with students demonstrating their projects.