This article presents a framing of flexibility, and three concepts with which it bears a close family resemblance, for the use in the context of infrastructure constellations.more
This paper discusses the evaluation of new infrastructure planning approaches. These new planning approaches have been put forward in response to the challenges of deep uncertainty about the future. These approaches emphasize the need for flexibility of the system in order to enable the plan to adapt to changing conditions. However, these adaptive approaches up till now have seen little real word applications.more
Flexible is what infrastructures, by their very nature, mostly are not. Thus investigating whether infrastructures, or at least their planning and implementation, can be made more flexible seems a worthwhile endeavour.more
In this paper the authors take a novel and counterintuitive approach, and focus on standards as a starting point for change (emphasis on ‘what’). They analyze in what manner standards can play a catalyzing role in infrastructure transitions and which standards characteristics facilitate in doing so.more
This introduction provides a conceptual exploration of infrastructural Europeanism from an institutional point of view. It sketches a brief overview of the term `infrastructure' and discusses the historiography on the important role infrastructures have played in globalization and the formation of the modern nation-state.more
Does a service platform offer enough flexibility to both service providers and end-users?more
What are the barriers for the implementation of the real option approach (ROA) in practice? And especially in the infrastructure-bound sectors: spatial planning and transport, ports, and energy?more
This paper analyzes the effects of reserving transmission capacity for the regulating power market on the links between the Nordic area and continental Europe.more
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