Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport Obstacles, Trends, Solutions

Book details for Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport

Contributor(s): Veli Himanen (author), Martin Lee-Gosselin (author), Adriaan Perrels (author),

Format: Hardback, 240 x 165 x 20mm , 352 pp, Illustrations

Publication date: 15 Jun 2007

Imprint: Elsevier Science Ltd

ISBN: 9780080447094

Price: £69.95

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Synopsis

This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management. Achieving sustainable transport requires more than 'optimal' management of congestion and the effects on public health and the environment. Assessments of external effects, and their optimal levels, tend to be piecemeal, localized, and focused on a specific type of effect. Sustainability, on the other hand, is a comprehensive, forward-looking concept that encompasses the achievement of a state of society that is better overall; it requires a widened concept of welfare that includes environmental quality and social justice in both the short and long term. This book is organized into three sections, each discussing a major set of challenges to the transition to a sustainable transport system.