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

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 are: 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?

Frank Geels is professorial fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex.

René Kemp is a senior researcher at Maastricht University (ICIS, UNU-MERIT) and Erasmus University (DRIFT).

Geoff Dudley is a political scientist who has worked at the Universities of Oxford, Essex, Warwick, Staffordshire and Strathclyde. In recent years, he has worked on a number of Economic and Social Research Council projects with transport themes and case studies.

Glenn Lyons is the Director of the Centre for Transport & Society and professor of Transport and Society of the University of the West of England.