Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport: Obstacles, Trends, Solutions - Softcover

Veli Himanen; Martin Lee-Gosselin; Adriaan Perrels

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178190152X ISBN 13: 9781781901526

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2012

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Sustaining Europe's transportation network and facing the challenges ahead

About the Author:

Veli Himanen - JP-Transplan Ltd, Vantaa, Finland
Martin Lee-Gosselin - Centre de Recherche en Amenagement et Developpement (CRAD), Quebec, Canada
Adriaan Perrels - Government Institute for Economic Research VATT, Helsinki, Finland

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 178190152X
• ISBN 13: 9781781901526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352