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

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : Emerald, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 388
• Soggetto topico: Transportation - Environmental aspects; Transportation - Public Transportation; Transport industries
• Persona (resp. second.): PerrelsA. H.; HimanenVeli; Lee-GosselinMartin
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Building blocks for sustainable transport
• ISBN: 1-282-73577-2; 9786612735776; 1-61344-937-2; 0-85724-516-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785009103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II