Karin Fossheim

• Bjørgen, Astrid; Fossheim, Karin & Macharis, Cathy (2021). How to build stakeholder participation in collaborative urban freight planning. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning.  ISSN 0264-2751.  112 . doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103149 Show summary

  Although freight issues are often the subject of controversy within urban communities, urban freight stake-holders rarely participate in local planning processes. This paper studies how different criteria to ensure actor participation in collaborative processes are practised in urban freight planning in seven Norwegian cities. The authors link different criteria of actor participation to Arnstein’s “ladder of citizen participation”, and study if the collaborative urban freight arenas provide participants with enough power to affect the outcome of improved planning process for urban freight. Participatory observation of collaborative arenas in Norwegian cities, com-bined with interviews with participating actors, revealed that knowledge and consensus building allowed stakeholders to reach the fifth step on the ladder of participation. The findings suggest that city characteristics influenced what criteria were most important. One important finding was the need to introduce a tenth criterion ‘political and planning anchorage’, which seemed particularly important for private stakeholders’ participation in collaborative processes. This finding may be of value to local authorities striving to enhance stakeholder participation and include both private and public stakeholder concerns in urban freight planning.

• Fossheim, Karin (2020). Local State-Society Relations in Norway, In Filipe Teles; Adam Gendzwill; Cristina Stanus & Hubert Heinelt (ed.),  Close Ties in European Local Governance : Linking Local State and Society.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-030-44794-6.  19.  s 275 - 288 Show summary

  The Norwegian local state-society networks considered, selected on the basis that they occur in most municipalities, are (1) council for the elderly and council for people with disabilities, (2) young people’s parliament and youth council, (3) economic development committee, (4) committee for voluntary organizations and (5) sub-municipal bodies. Councils for the elderly and councils for people with disabilities are delegated networks. Both young people’s parliaments and youth councils and committees for voluntary organizations are communicative networks mainly engaged in knowledge sharing. Economic development committees are characterized as strong consociational networks, while sub-municipal bodies are collaborative networks. Overall, the relation between civil society and local authorities in Norway is varied, and the functions of the networks are mostly advisory, but formalized within the political system.

• Ørving, Tale & Fossheim, Karin (2019). 11 - Public sector facilitation of cargo bike operations to improve city logistics, In Pierluigi Coppola & Domokos Esztergár-Kiss (ed.),  Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility.  Elsevier.  ISBN 9780128176962.  11.  s 141 - 154 Show summary

  This evaluation builds on a case study in Oslo, Norway, and provides important knowledge to authorities on how to facilitate use of cargo bikes in the Norwegian urban freight market. The findings indicate that providing a suitable location in the city center for urban logistics activities, in this case a micro depot, required substantial effort from local authorities. The chapter concludes that to attract other actors to initiate commercial use of cargo bikes public authorities should make this process easier to complete, either by (1) defining space in land-use plans for logistics activities, (2) setting aside existing locations for this usage, or (3) by developing a centrally located multi-user terminal. Overall, the Oslo case shows that a public-private partnership was fruitful in initiating testing of new sustainable ways of performing goods delivery in Oslo.

• Fossheim, Karin & Andersen, Jardar (2017). Plan for sustainable urban logistics – comparing between Scandinavian and UK practices. European Transport Research Review.  ISSN 1867-0717.  9(52) . doi: 10.1007/s12544-017-0270-8 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Introduction Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans) guidelines are used, are examined in this paper. Methods A systematic literature review identifies relevant studies based on predefined inclusion criteria: mobility, freight, urban, plan. Results It is found that urban freight plans are used more frequently in the UK than in the Scandinavian countries. SULPs (freight strategies, action plans or parts of a mobility plan) follow a structure that identifies the current situation and defines the strategic context, vision, targets and objectives using selected policy measures, measures that are dependent on geographical scope. Conclusions Urban freight plans are designed with a sustainability perspective to define visions and policy measures for urban freight. SUTP, SUMP and SULP methodologies are used in existing Scandinavian and UK urban freight plans, especially when a collaborative planning approach is being practiced. The emphasis on urban freight is challenged by the regional perspective. Integrating urban freight in general planning procedures or transport planning is important. Government guidance and sustainable strategies can provide a planning methodology and, therefore, based on national guidelines further European structural standardisation could be beneficial. Identification of freight plans is crucial if the contributions they make are to be determined.

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• Bjørgen, Astrid; Fossheim, Karin & Macharis, Cathy (2018). Criteria for successful stakeholder participation in collaborative urban mobility planning.

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