Delivering the goods: executing sustainable transport policy through urban planning in Merseyside (2001–2010)

Integrating transport and land use policies is a key objective in pursuing sustainable transport strategies seeking to reduce car usage. Such integration is taxing as the two developed into separate disciplines with differing cultures. These issues come to the fore during planning execution: the implementation of sustainable transport policies through the planning system. Such implementation processes prove complex and concern fit between policy intervention and practice context. In this paper, we explore these implementation issues using an integration framework employed on a longitudinal case study of Merseyside during the twenty-first century’s first decade.