Sustainability transitions in coastal shipping: The role of regime segmentation

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Jens Hanson¹  Teis Hansen²  Øyvind Bjørgum³  Anna Bergek⁴  Markus Steen⁵ 

[1] Department of Technology Management, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden;Department of Technology Management, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway;

关键词: Maritime shipping sector;    User segments;    Conditions for transitions;    Multi-level perspective;    Battery-electric technology;    Task environment;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Maritime transport has received little attention in sustainability transitions research. This sector is mature and heterogeneous, which suggests the need for a more nuanced perspective on socio-technical regimes to understand variation in conditions for adoption of novel technologies that may support sustainability transitions. We consider this important in order to develop more efficient policy to decarbonize the shipping sector. We develop a framework that explicitly differentiates task and institutional environment of user regimes, enabling us to identify regime segmentation and its influence on three key transition conditions: technology maturity and fit, system integration and infrastructure, and acceptability and legitimacy. We apply our framework to analyse development and uptake of battery-electric energy storage solutions within three segments (coastal ferry, coastal fishing, and offshore supply) of Norwegian coastal shipping. Our analysis suggests that the transition process unfolds along different pathways in different user segments, pointing to a need for segment-specific policy instruments.

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