The paper explores the strategic transport planning process which took place in the English Pennines in the early 1990s. The key road and rail transport studies which informed the process are evaluated from a normative perspective, to reveal the assumptions, practices and positions which...

The paper argues the need for a more nuanced debate over the place of public involvement in transport planning in Britain, in the context of the current democratic turn in governance. The recent policy shift towards integrated transport has been accompanied by significant institutional changes,...