Why we fail to reduce urban road traffic volumes: Does it matter how planners frame the problem?

If the objective of reducing urban road traffic volumes and GHG emissions from traffic is to be achieved, the way in which land use and transport systems in cities are planned and developed needs to change. Despite apparent agreement that this should be done and how it could be done, cities continue to be planned and developed in ways that cause and allow growth in urban road traffic volumes. In this paper we ask how planners frame the ‘transport problem’, and how their framing of the problem affects urban planning, the resulting plans and developments and the urban road traffic volumes. The discussions are based on findings from a case study, a survey and interviews with planning practitioners.     

Changing the record: the inter‐professional,subjective and embodied effects of electronic patient records

Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health‐care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health‐care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self.