Building blocks for sustainable transport : obstacles, trends, solutions

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Perrels, A. H. (Editor), Himanen, Veli (Editor), Lee-Gosselin, Martin (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Group Publishing, 2007.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857245168
9781786359612
DOI10.1108/9780857245168
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations, map

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction
  • How to cast the future?
  • 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
  • Spatial economic interactions in sustainable settings
  • 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
  • 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
  • About the Authors.