Automobility in Transition?: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport

by Frank Geels (Editor), René Kemp (Editor), Geoff Dudley (Editor)

Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national governments, citizens, car drivers, transport planners and civil society. Two guiding questions Will we see a greening of cars, based on technological innovations that sustain the existing car-based system? Or is something more radical desirable and likely, such as the development of travel regimes in which car use is less dominant?

410 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 2011

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[Timothy · Rating 3 out of 5]

In an age of declining oil resources, the exhaustion of the American empire, and a clamor to stop anthropogenic climate change by restraining carbon emissions, the autombility regime may be changing. How and why this may occur and what direction this may take is the subject of this set of essays published in 2012.