`This is the core text I have been searching for! The book provides an excellent introduction to sustainable transportation. It is comprehensive, highly readable and puts a new critical, but optimistic, angle to the way we look at transportation sustainability. Essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners.' Professor Mark Zuidgeest, Urban Transport, University of Twente, and Secretary, Cycling Academic Network, The Netherlands`A significant improvement in the level of debate and information around this important topic ... takes us firmly into the real world of policy, leadership, innovation, citizen action, implementation, the role of visionary politicians [and] draws on a body of new research from locations around the world ... a valuable contribution.' Professor John Whitelegg, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, UK`This is an excellent detailed manual for serious planning professionals. It goes beyond polemics to offer a sturdy blueprint for a saner future as we leave behind the age of cheap oil and Happy Motoring.' James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere`[The authors] have combined careful research with principled advocacy...and have assembled an encyclopaedic and useable catalogue of the theory, technique and practice needed for recovery from the twentieth century's long delusion about hypermobility, and it comes not a moment too soon!' From The Foreword by Hank DittmarThis essential multi-authored work reflects a new sustainable transportation planning paradigm. It explores the concepts of sustainable development and sustainable transportation, describes practical techniques for comprehensive evaluation, provides tools for multi-modal transport planning, and presents innovative mobility management solutions to transportation problems. Featuring extensive international examples and case studies, text boxes, graphics, recommended reading and end-of-chapter questions, the authors draw on considerable teaching and research experience to present an essential, groundbreaking and authoritative work on sustainable transportation.

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes ix Acknowledgements xvii Foreword xix Introduction and Overview xxi 1 A Highly Mobile Planet and Its Challenges: Automobile Dependence, Equity and Inequity 1 Sustainable transportation 1 What is sustainable transportation about? 1 Unsustainable transportation: The magnitude of the problem 3 Hypermobility 3 The problems of automobile dependence 7 Equity and auto dependence 16 Conclusions 21 2 Automobile Cities, the Car Culture and Alternative Possibilities 25 Introduction 25 Walking cities, transit cities and automobile cities 25 Additional lessons from city types 29 Car culture 31 Tourism: The car culture evolves into the fly-drive and recreational vehicle cultures 42 Conclusions 46 3 History of Sustainable and Unsustainable Transportation: From Walking to Wheels and Back to Walking 51 Transportation history: The intersection of modes, infrastructure and society 51 Transportation infrastructure: From animal paths to 'Good Roads' 63 The rise of automobility 66 Rail and railways 74 Maritime and water travel 75 Feat of flying 76 Telecommunications and transportation 77 Lessons for sustainable transportation 78 4 Modes, Roads and Routes: Technologies, Infrastructure, Functions and Interrelatedness 87 Introduction 87 In-town modes: Getting to work, school, shopping, services and recreation 88 Regional-metropolitan area modes: Long commutes, regional services, recreation, peak demand 102 The barrier effects of different rights of way 104 Long distance: Modes and types of travel 105 Sustainability considerations 113 Futuristic modes 118 Conclusions 120 5 Moving Freight, Logistics and Supply Chains in a More Sustainable Direction 123 Introduction and overview 123 Background to current freight movement factors 125 Factors that shape freight movement: Supply chains, logistical systems and shipping strategies 125 Problems of global supply chains 138 Total logistics cost: Widgets near or widgets far? 139 Elements aimed at increasing freight sustainability 140 Considerations of policy change 148 De-globalization of freight? 150 6 Transportation Economics and Investment: Improving Analysis and Investment Strategies 153 Introduction 153 Basic concepts and principles 154 Current evaluation methods 155 Hidden and intentional subsidies and externalities 159 Opportunity costs 167 Critique of current methods with respect to sustainable outcomes 171 Regulation versus pricing 172 Time-area: An important tool for analysing a transportation investment 174 Moving public policy and investment evaluation towards promoting sustainability 174 Case studies 179 7 Public Policy and Effective Citizen Participation: Leadership, Deliberation, Back-Casting, Scenarios, Visualization and Visioning 189 The public, policy and participation 189 Transportation policy: From mobility promotion to mobility management and sustainability 190 The public and participation 196 Public participation in transportation 200 From business as usual to sustainability in transportation 210 8 A New Planning Paradigm: From Integrated Planning, Policy and Mobility Management to Repair, Regeneration and Renewal 217 Lessons learned from preceding chapters 217 The recognition of the need for a new paradigm: The Buchanan Report and its critics 221 Overview of the new paradigm: Integrated policy-making, planning and mobility management 223 Towards better management of existing transportation features 223 Integrated planning 228 Moving from planning and policy to regeneration, repair and renewal 236 Sustainable transportation agenda and priorities 253 From the new paradigm to its embodiment 253 9 Exemplars of Sustainable Transportation: Walking the Talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya 259 Introduction 259 The exemplars 261 Conclusions 295 10 Conclusion: Growing More Exemplars 299 Necessities for growing more exemplars 299 Success builds success: The power of demonstration projects 308 Appendix 1 Transit Primer 313 Appendix 2 Sustainable Transportation Resources Toolbox 319 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 323 Glossary 327 Index 329