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The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia.
- Source :
- Futures; Aug2024, Vol. 161, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Actors experience considerable uncertainty when developing and realizing mobility innovations that can contribute in the transition to a sustainable transport system. Although the role of uncertainty and its handling is mentioned as important in the literature on transitions and innovations, there is a lack of understanding how uncertainty affects decision-making processes and actors themselves. This paper investigates the interplay of uncertainty competencies and governance settings in four innovation cases of Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Our findings demonstrate it is difficult to sustain MaaS beyond a research trial, because actors experience too much uncertainty about governance questions of long-term responsibilities and role distribution. Although individual actors possess effective project management skills and willingness to innovate in a trial context, they are unable to bring MaaS to a next level because MaaS is not seen as a part of a larger design quest in which stakeholders experiment and play with uncertainty through different institutional configurations. • Exploring innovation processes through actors' experience of uncertainty enables to explain why they (do not) move forward. • In uncertain innovation trials, uncertainty is often translated by actors as risk that should be reduced. • Innovation trials are good at resolving uncertainties on a project level. • Full implementation of mobility innovations requires broader experimentation with actor responsibilities and legislative configurations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
PROJECT management
ACTORS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00163287
- Volume :
- 161
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Futures
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178149311
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103402