Building blocks for sustainable transport : obstacles, trends, solutions
Argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management. This book is organized into three sections that discuss a major set of challenges to the transition to a sustainable transport system.
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, UK :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2008.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780857245168 0857245163 9781613449370 1613449372 1282735772 9781282735774 9786612735776 6612735775 0080447090 9780080447094 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Table of Contents:
- How to cast the future? / Adriaan Perrels
- Looking over the horizon : visioning and backcasting / David Banister, Robin Hickman, Dominic Stead
- Lessons from prospective research on sustainable transport carried out through the OECD EST and French PREDIT programs / Alain Morcheoine, Bertrand Chateau
- Drivers of freight transport demand and their policy implications / Odette van de Riet, Gerard de Jong, Warren Walker
- Space-economy interactions in the context of sustainability / Martin Lee-Gosselin
- The metropolitan field : an emerging form that may condition the sustainability of transport / Paul Y. Villeneuve, Martin Lee-Gosselin, Remy Barbonne
- Sustainable mobility and urbanity / Adriaan Perrels
- Movement of goods, services and people : entanglements with sustainability implications / Frank Southworth, Marcus Wigan
- Effectiveness and acceptability : the keys to implementation / Veli Himanen
- Sustainable transport and quality of life / Linda Steg, Robert Gifford
- Transport policies : actions, intentions and perceived effectiveness / Dominic Stead
- Policy analysis of sustainable transport and mobility : the SUMMA project / Warren E. Walker [and others].