An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation Policy, Planning and Implementation

Transportation plays a substantial role in the modern world; it provides tremendous benefits to society, but it also imposes significant economic, social and environmental costs. Sustainable transport planning requires integrating environmental, social, and economic factors in order to develop optimal solutions to our many pressing issues, especially carbon emissions and climate change.

This 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.  This text reflects a fundamental change in transportation decision making. It focuses on accessibility rather than mobility, emphasizes the need to expand the range of options and impacts considered in analysis, and provides practical tools to allow planners, policy makers and the general public to determine the best solution to the transportation problems facing a community.

Featuring extensive international examples and case-studies, textboxes, graphics, recommended reading and end of chapter questions, the authors draw on considerable teaching and researching experience to present an essential, ground-breaking and authoritative text on sustainable transport.

Students of various disciplines, planners, policymakers and concerned citizens will find many of its provocative ideas and approaches of considerable value as they engage in the processes of understanding and changing transportation towards greater sustainability.

Acknowledgments.  Foreword.  Introduction and Overview  1. A Highly Mobile Planet and its Challenges: Automobile Dependency, Equity and Inequity  2. Automobile Cities, the Car Culture and Alternative Possibilities  3. History of Sustainable and Unsustainable Transportation: From Walking to Wheels and Back to Walking  4. Modes, Roads, and Routes: Technologies, Infrastructure, Functions and Inter-Relatedness  5. Moving Freight, Logistics and Supply Chains in a More Sustainable Direction  6. Transportation Economics and Investment: Improving Analysis and Investment Strategies  7. Public Policy and Effective Citizen Participation: Leadership, Deliberation, Backcasting, Scenarios, Visualization, and Visioning  8. A New Planning Paradigm: From Integrated Planning, Policy and Mobility Management to Repair, Regeneration and Renewal  9. Exemplars of Sustainable Transportation: Walking the Talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya  10. Conclusion: Growing More Exemplars.  Appendix: Transit Primer.  Resources- Toolbox.  Endnotes.  Bibliography-References.  Index

Preston L. Schiller, is Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has worked on the Washington State and federal Clean Air and Transportation Acts and been involved with numerous governmental transportation policy, planning, and regulatory boards at local, state and regional levels. Eric C. Bruun, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and is a consultant specializing in transportation systems, investment analysis and in Intelligent Transportation Systems applied to innovative services for the disabled and to other hard-to-serve transit markets. He is the author of Better Public Transit Systems: Analyzing Investments and Performance (2007) as well as numerous technical reports and journal publications. Dr Jeffrey Kenworthy is Professor in Sustainable Cities in the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP) at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He has 30 years experience in urban transport and land use policy with over 200 publications in the field.