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Book Transportation and Mobility in an Era of Transition

Download or read book Transportation and Mobility in an Era of Transition written by Gijsbertus R. M. Jansen and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from a conference, "Transportation and stagnation : challenges for planning and research," organized by the Dutch Transportation Planning Research Colloquium and held Dec. 14-16, 1983.

Book Transition towards Sustainable Mobility

Download or read book Transition towards Sustainable Mobility written by Yoram Shiftan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the dynamic relationships between socio-technical behaviour and change, this book presents leading research on the transition process needed to achieve more sustainable transport systems. Focusing on making transition happen, this volume looks at various aspects and factors that are involved in the transition process and their implications for transport policy-making. The concept of Transition Management and how it can be applied to the transport sector is considered in detail, and forms the focus of the first part of the volume. The rest of the book is organised according to the three themes of transport energy use and emissions, the role of information in policy-making, and the evaluation of transport policy. This volume brings together scholars involved in research from various disciplines and countries to discuss the relationships between policy instruments, individual behaviour, institutional practices and the transition towards more sustainable transport systems.

Book Transportation and Mobility in an Era of Transition

Download or read book Transportation and Mobility in an Era of Transition written by Gijsbertus R. M. Jansen and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from a conference, "Transportation and stagnation : challenges for planning and research," organized by the Dutch Transportation Planning Research Colloquium and held Dec. 14-16, 1983.

Book Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition

Download or read book Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition written by Greg Marsden and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition towards ‘smarter’ autonomous transport systems calls for a rethink in how transport is governed/who governs it, to ensure a step-change to a more sustainable future. This book critically reflects on these governance challenges analysing the role of the state; the new actors and discourses; and the implications for state capacity.

Book Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility

Download or read book Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility written by Jo A.E.E. van Nunen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivering a sustainable transport system is not just a matter of adopting a number of technological innovations to improve performance in terms of people, planet, and profits. A broader structural and societal transition is needed in technology, as well as in institutions, behavioural patterns, and the economy as a whole. In this broader view, neither the free market nor the public sector will be the unique key player in making this transition happen. Elements of such an approach are presented in this book in a number of domains: integrating transport infrastructure and land use planning, thus connecting fields that are rather unconnected in day-to-day policies; experiments with dynamic transport optimization, including reports on pilot projects to test the viability of transitions; towards reliable transport systems, describing a reversal from supply-driven towards demand-driven approaches; and sustainable logistics and traffic management, from ‘local’ city distribution to global closed supply chain loops.

Book Moving Towards Transition

Download or read book Moving Towards Transition written by Peter Adey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel like, what lives we might live in them and what choices we might have to make to get there.

Book Consuming Mobility

Download or read book Consuming Mobility written by Jorrit O. Nijhuis and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Energy Transition in Transport

Download or read book The Energy Transition in Transport written by Francisco José Hurtado Mayén and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Energy Transition in Transport: Towards Sustainable Mobility by Francisco José Hurtado Mayén is a thorough and insightful examination of the critical shift needed in the transportation sector to address the pressing challenges of climate change and environmental degradation. In an era where transportation accounts for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, this book provides a roadmap for transforming how we move people and goods, emphasizing sustainability, equity, and innovation. The book begins by outlining the environmental and public health impacts of the current fossil-fuel-dependent transportation system. It explains how the sector contributes to air pollution, climate change, and the deterioration of urban living conditions. Recognizing the urgency of these issues, Hurtado Mayén explores the evolution of transportation technologies, with a particular focus on electric vehicles (EVs), which are positioned as a cornerstone of the sustainable mobility future. The history of EVs, from their early development to their resurgence in recent decades, is meticulously detailed, along with the technological advancements in batteries, electric motors, and energy management systems that have made EVs a viable alternative to traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. Moving beyond individual transportation, the book delves into innovations in public transport and shared mobility. It highlights the transformative potential of electric buses, trams, and shared mobility solutions like carsharing, bikesharing, and ridesharing. The integration of autonomous vehicles is also discussed as a future trend that could revolutionize urban mobility, reducing traffic congestion and emissions while improving accessibility. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to the role of public policy in facilitating the transition to sustainable transport. Hurtado Mayén examines various policy tools, including subsidies, economic incentives, regulatory frameworks, and infrastructure investments, which can accelerate the adoption of clean technologies. Case studies from around the world-such as Norway's leadership in EV adoption, Shenzhen's electrification of its bus fleet, and London's implementation of low emission zones-provide real-world examples of successful strategies and the challenges encountered along the way. The book also addresses the broader societal impacts of the energy transition in transport, discussing the economic benefits such as job creation, public health improvements, and cost savings associated with reduced fuel consumption. Additionally, it explores the specific challenges and opportunities of implementing sustainable mobility in rural areas, where infrastructure and resource limitations pose unique difficulties. The Energy Transition in Transport: Towards Sustainable Mobility is not just a technical manual; it is a call to action for governments, businesses, and citizens to collaborate in creating a transportation system that is not only efficient and reliable but also sustainable and just. The book provides a clear and compelling vision for the future, backed by detailed analysis, case studies, and practical recommendations. It is an essential resource for policymakers, industry leaders, academics, and anyone interested in understanding and contributing to the sustainable mobility revolution.

Book Shaping Smart Mobility Futures

Download or read book Shaping Smart Mobility Futures written by Alexander Paulsson and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from multiple fields, and using the results from a number of research projects, this book takes the discussion one step further by exploring the policy instruments available and needed for the governance of smart mobility.

Book Automobility in Transition

Download or read book Automobility in Transition written by Frank W. Geels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Book The Transition to Smart Mobility

Download or read book The Transition to Smart Mobility written by Leander Kauschke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contemporary notions of the fairly recent concept ‘smart mobility’ portray an imminent transition of similar socio-economic consequences as the shift from horses to automobiles did 100 years ago. Present book thus offers an in-depth look at the variables involved in the equation of smart mobility acceptance (1) and envisaged institutional change (2). Both views are embedded in the Multi-Level Perspective. Study 1 develops a structural equation model in SmartPLS. Use cases cover eBikes (N=537), mobility-as-a-service (N=531), and fully automated vehicles (N=558). Based on the results, acceptance relies on five factors: performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, social influence, habit, and hedonic motivation. Study 2 applies the Institutional Role Model (IRM) to better understand system dynamics. Thus, the smart mobility ecosystem is mapped in a structured manner. It identifies nine institutions, as well as four technical and four economic roles. Results of interviews with experts (N=8) support the IRM’s significance as a vision provider for a new mobility regime. In the end, these two perspectives amalgamate. This opens a sophisticated space for public debate about the commencing transition to smart mobility.

Book Full Circles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cindi Katz
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 131785831X
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Full Circles written by Cindi Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to women in diverse and changing locations.

Book Mobility Justice

Download or read book Mobility Justice written by Mimi Sheller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement. Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She connects the body, street, city, nation, and planet in one overarching theory of the modern, perpetually shifting world. Concepts of mobility are examined on a local level in the circulation of people, resources, and information, as well as on an urban scale, with questions of public transport and “the right to the city.” On the planetary level, she demands that we rethink the reality where tourists and other elites are able to roam freely, while migrants and those most in need are abandoned and imprisoned at the borders. Mobility Justice is a new way to understand the deep flows of inequality and uneven accessibility in a world in which the mobility commons have been enclosed. It is a call for a new understanding of the politics of movement and a demand for justice for all.

Book National Transportation Policy in Transition

Download or read book National Transportation Policy in Transition written by Herman Mertins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Access

Download or read book The Age of Access written by Jeremy Rifkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives" (The Seattle Times). Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a "paid-for" experience. It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Rifkin. After several hundred years as the dominant organizing paradigm of civilization, the traditional market system is beginning to deconstruct. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known.

Book Social Costs and Sustainable Mobility

Download or read book Social Costs and Sustainable Mobility written by Klaus Rennings and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair and efficient pricing has become increasingly important in international environmental and transport policy. Thus the valuation and internalization of social costs is now a crucial element within strategies towards sustainable mobility. The book provides methods and results from major European and American studies evaluating both social costs of transport and first experiences with their internalization in different contexts: infrastructure planning, urban road pricing and highway tolling. Additionally, complementary non-monetary instruments for a transition towards sustainable mobility are presented and discussed.

Book A Billion Trips a Day

Download or read book A Billion Trips a Day written by I. Salomon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Billion Trips a Day: Tradition and Transition in European Travel Patterns consists of twenty-four original chapters developed by a network of transport professionals in a coordinated manner. The three parts of the book are: European Mobility Patterns; Dimensions of European Mobility, and National Perspectives. Mobility in fourteen countries is described and ten chapters of analysis compare the major dimensions of travel across Europe, which is seen as a laboratory for transport policies. A Billion Trips a Day: Tradition and Transition in European Travel Patterns questions the uniqueness of European travel and transport policies and demonstrates that, in many ways, Europe is different from other developed economies. However, there are side dissimilarities within Europe. The authors take a deep look at the underlying factors which affect travel behavior, with the objective of providing the necessary information for policy making. The comparative chapters of Part II provide an analysis based on national perspectives of the role of the time dimension travel; automobile ownership and use; commuting; public transport; and international travel. They also review the transport policies applied in Europe, explaining why some policies work in some places, while failing in others.