Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport: Obstacles, Trends, Solutions

by Veli Himanen, Martin Lee-Gosselin, Adriaan Perrels

Overview

This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781901526
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction. 
How to Cast the Future?. 
Looking Over the Horizon: Visioning and Backcasting. 
Lessons from Prospective Research on Sustainable Transport Carried Out through the OECD EST and French PREDIT Programs. 
Drivers of Freight Transport Demand and their Policy Implications.  
Space-Economy Interactions in the Context of Sustainability.  
The Metropolitan Field: An Emerging Form that may Condition the Sustainability of Transport.  
Sustainable Mobility and Urbanity.  
Movement of Goods, Services and People: Entanglements with Sustainability Implications. 
Effectiveness and Acceptability: The Keys to Implementation. 
Sustainable Transport and Quality of Life. 
Transport Policies: Actions, Intentions and Perceived Effectiveness.  
Policy Analysis of Sustainable Transport and Mobility: The SUMMA Project. 
Prelims.