📢 We are delighted to announce that today our new Handbook is launched. ‘Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures – A Handbook for Practitioners’ is available to download for free.

The main Handbook is in English. A summary version is also available in Dutch, English, Italian, Slovenian and Swedish.

You can download it directly from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11751967 or via our project website https://www.tapforuncertainty.eu/

This has been a labour of love, and kudos to my fellow authors: Vincent Marchau, Daniela Paddeu, Tom Rye, Marcus Adolphson, Maha Attia, Tamara Bozovic, Jonas Bylund, Tom Calvert, Kiron Chatterjee, Antonio Comi, Stephen Cragg, Gianfranco Fancello, Sander Lenferink, Luka Mladenovic, Francesco Piras, Tony Svensson and Jacob Witzell

Complete with a handy built-in navigation bar, the Handbook takes you on a journey through the planning process from philosophy to preparation and analysis to strategy development and finally to measure planning. For each of these phases, four areas of consideration are addressed: the triple access perspective; uncertainty; and access for goods. The Handbook also addresses organisational and institutional challenges.

The Handbook introduces thinking, methods, case studies and advice, drawing upon a considerable wealth of knowledge from within and beyond the pan-European project that has for the last three years been engaging with planning practitioners.

Instead of transport planning in the paradigm of predict and provide, this is Triple Access Planning in the paradigm of decide and provide.

For practitioners who are already in the vanguard of applying Triple Access Planning, the message we now want to put across is simple: just do it. The world we live in is too complex to expect to be able to make full sense of everything before the way we plan changes. Remember, evidence is not synonymous with truth when it comes to the future, and that it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. If you are already part of the change in planning practice then we hope this Handbook will help further. If you are not yet part of the diffusion of innovation, but keen to weigh up whether or not to be, we hope the Handbook will give you what you need to be able to decide.

And a shout-out to those practitioners already blazing the triple access trail for others to follow 🤘

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