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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955931603321

Titolo

Building blocks for sustainable transport : obstacles, trends, solutions / / edited by Adriaan Perrels, Veli Himanen, Martin Lee-Gosselin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, : Emerald, c2008

ISBN

9786612735776

9781282735774

1282735772

9781613449370

1613449372

9780857245168

0857245163

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

388

Soggetti

Transportation - Environmental aspects

Transportation - Public Transportation

Transport industries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.