VIVER (Live) - Vision für nachhaltigen Verkehr in Deutschland (A sustainable transport vision for Germany) is an internal research project of Fraunhofer ISI, initiated by the Business Unit Transportation Systems. The objective of the project was to come up with a clear vision of sustainable...

The paper asks how the modal shift from road to rail in the freight sector is sup-ported by institutional change. Following North (1990), institutions are understood as the "rules of the game" in the rail freight sector. Based on the literature on institutional change, four different...

There is a need for concepts and methods to develop generic insights across cases in transitions studies based on thorough and systematic empirical analysis. Based on the major strands of transition literature, this paper develops dimensions for a socio-technical system level analysis,...

Meeting sustainability challenges requires not only innovations but also transitions towards sustainability paths. Studies which use technological innovation systems and multi-level-perspective approaches show that the development of innovation systems is a complex process, with many direct and...

Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...

There is a need for concepts and methods to develop generic insights across cases in transitions studies and to analyse "transformational system failures" in policy. This paper identifies dimensions for a system level analysis and illustrates their application to compare cases and identify...

Die anhaltenden Nachhaltigkeitsherausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft - sei es hinsichtlich des Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauchs oder der sozialen Gerechtigkeit - illustrieren die Notwendigkeit einer großen gesellschaftlichen Transformation, um entsprechend der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie...

Sustainability transitions take place across geographical and political levels. Services such as energy supply, water supply and wastewater management or housing are part of daily life have to be provided at the district level within larger urban governance structures or by smaller rural...

VIVER (Leben) - Vision für nachhaltigen Verkehr in Deutschland ist ein Eigenforschungsprojekt des Fraunhofer ISI, initiiert durch das Geschäftsfeld Verkehrssysteme. Ziel des Projektes war es eine anschauliche Vision für nachhaltigen Verkehr in Deutschland für das Jahr 2050 zu entwerfen....