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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462256603321

Autore

Curtis Carey

Titolo

Institutional barriers to sustainable transport [[electronic resource] /] / Carey Curtis, Nicholas Low

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2012

ISBN

1-317-11587-2

1-317-11586-4

1-283-59100-6

9786613903457

0-7546-9390-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Transport and mobility series

Altri autori (Persone)

LowNicholas

Disciplina

388.4/042

Soggetti

Urban transportation - Environmental aspects

Urban transportation policy

Urban transportation - Social aspects

Sustainable development

Urban transportation policy - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Sustainable transport and institutional barriers -- The irrationality of path dependence -- Transport planning in Australia -- How organizations shape infrastructure : roads organizations -- How organizations shape infrastructure : public transport planning -- Transport plans in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth -- The discourse of roads -- The discourse of public transport -- Stakeholder groups -- Contemporary mental models -- Overcoming the barriers.

Sommario/riassunto

Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems



become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. The findings are applicable to mo