The Transition to Sustainable Transport

by Marie Thynell

Transition to Sustainable Transport takes readers around the world and through groundbreaking studies in the area of traffic and sustainable transportation. The global spread of mainstream mobility and its consequences for CO2-emission, traffic congestion, development of cities, urban social life and climate change have prompted awareness of the fact that resources are limited and that mobility has to become sustainable. This book focuses on how to understand and manage today’s urban transport problems. Influential international political and economic actors have elaborated sustainable development goals but have not tailored locally implementable solutions. While technical proposals for transport solutions tend to be clear and easily understood, it is less clear how individual cities or countries might implement them so as to begin making the transition towards low-carbon cities. Detailed cases studies from Nairobi, Cape Town, New Delhi, Sydney, Melbourne, Beijing, San Francisco, Santiago de Chile and London are presented in order to better understand what policies and implementation practices are needed to achieive sustainable transportation goals. By dealing with the interface between technology, environmental and social sciences this book provides fascinating insights and creates important new knowledge. It also bridges several gaps that have dogged thinking to between theory and practice, between policy and implementation, and between early motorised cities and today’s rapidly growing cities. Finally, the lessons learned from a huge number of research projects are presented and the road forward is explored.

208 pages, Hardcover

Published December 31, 2023