This book is an invaluable and highly readable guide to students, researchers and practitioners for whom sustainable transportation is an interest or a goal. The book provides a succinct overview of a rapidly changing and developing field and makes excellent use of examples and case study materials to illustrate specific points. Unusually, adding much of value to the book, these case studies and illustrations are drawn from across the world and bring a richness and strength to the arguments and an understanding of the diverse approaches which have been used to address issues of (un)sustainable transportation.
The book is essentially set out in ten key sections: a definition of sustainable transportation and an understanding of current mobility and hypermobility; different types of cities and the growth of the car culture; the development of sustainable and unsustainable transportation; current and future transportation; freight and logistics; economic investment strategies; the role of policy making and citizen participation in bringing about change; a critique of current transport planning practices and a look towards a new paradigm focussed on sustainable transportation; exemplars of sustainable transportation; and how to grow more examplars.
It is certainly a book I will recommend as key background reading for my students and draw on regularly for material to illustrate good practice in this area.
