Summary:
The workbook on Strategic Niche Management (SNM) is valuable for readers interested in the opportunities, problems and subtleties of introducing new transport technologies, like transport operators, manufacturers, urban and national policy-makers and planners of demonstration projects and social experiments.
Such experiments have to be very carefully designed and take into account the different technological, organizational and social contexts. The book especially addresses issues which are not part of standard management procedures like how to set up a project team, a financial construction etc. Rather, this workbook focuses upon those factors which influence the widespread diffusion of a chosen socio-technical path.
Because the focus of SNM is on how to combine economic, social, and environment objectives as an integral part of a process of introducing technological options, it is particularly apt for any transport technology policy aiming at sustainable development. The workbook provides recommendations and ideas for structuring the set-up and implementation of demonstration projects ( or societal experiments). In particular, it will help organizing, framing and guiding a first planning workshop for a demonstration project.
In this workbook, SNM is applied to transport technologies, but it may in principle also be applied to other fields.