Making Urban Transport Sustainable addresses the future of urban transport as a global issue. Money is being poured into roads, railways, and airports at a time when the global atmosphere is threatened and oil production has reached its peak. If the world's environment and societies are to be sustained, urban transport has to change. Contributions by experts from the developed and developing worlds discuss the severity of the problem and suggest potential solutions.
Author(s): Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson
Series: Global Issues
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 304
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 15
Internet Websites......Page 19
Acknowledgements......Page 21
Introduction......Page 22
The paradox of sustainability......Page 23
Urban transport and economic sustainability......Page 25
Urban transport and social sustainability......Page 30
Urban transport and environmental sustainability......Page 33
Ecosocialization......Page 38
Conclusions......Page 42
Part I Global Issues in Transport Sustainability......Page 44
Introduction......Page 46
Car-dependence and technological forces......Page 47
The economy of cities......Page 53
Governance and urban growth......Page 58
Changing urban values......Page 60
Conclusions......Page 62
Introduction......Page 63
Geological origins of petroleum......Page 64
Two simple questions: how much has been found? And when was it found?......Page 65
How much is yet-to-find?......Page 73
Producing what remains......Page 74
The illusion of technology......Page 75
Production scenarios......Page 77
The anomaly of 1998 and the reaction......Page 79
Gas and non-conventional hydrocarbons......Page 81
Conclusions......Page 85
Introduction......Page 88
B2B (business to business)......Page 90
B2C (business to consumer)......Page 94
Example: transport demand and resource intensity of B2C in books......Page 99
Conclusions......Page 103
Introduction......Page 105
Pollutants from vehicle engines......Page 106
New vehicle technologies......Page 107
Experimental rig and findings......Page 117
Conclusions......Page 121
Part II Regional and National Studies......Page 122
Introduction: policy built for suburban commuters......Page 124
How the commuter became king of the road......Page 126
Unsustainable transportation trends......Page 127
Signs of sustainable transportation policy......Page 129
The opportunities ahead: communities must steer policy......Page 133
Introduction......Page 136
The growth in demand for transport......Page 137
Greenhouse gases......Page 139
The health impact of transport......Page 141
Ground level impact of aviation......Page 145
Trans European networks......Page 148
Conclusions......Page 151
The geographic, demographic and policy background of the three countries......Page 153
Transport polices after 1987......Page 155
Differences among the three countries......Page 159
The outcomes of the new transport policies......Page 161
How to explain the failures?......Page 165
Prospects for the future......Page 168
Development of the railway network in Japan before the Second World War......Page 170
Japanese National Railways and its modernization in post-war days......Page 173
The privatization of the Japanese National Railways......Page 174
The deteriorating rural sectors and stronger nodality in the rail network under the privatized JR companies......Page 177
The trend of passenger-kilometres and foreign investor influence on the neo-liberal corporate strategy of the privatized JR – the case of JR West......Page 182
Concluding remarks: why railways?: the rationale for revival of a nationwide homogeneous rail network......Page 183
Introduction......Page 186
Problematics of urban transport in India: an overview......Page 188
Public transport and related problems in selected Indian cities......Page 191
Contemporary transport planning in Mumbai......Page 195
Towards a sustainable future......Page 200
Introduction......Page 205
Urban form......Page 206
Transport provision......Page 209
Transport patterns......Page 211
Transport emissions......Page 214
Analysis and suggestions......Page 215
Conclusions......Page 220
Introduction......Page 222
Forwards and backwards in Australia......Page 223
Sydney, 'The accidental city'......Page 224
Melbourne, 'On the Move'......Page 229
Perth, 'A City for Cars'?......Page 234
Conclusions......Page 239
Part III Best Practice in Sustainable Transport......Page 242
Introduction......Page 244
Urban transport: problems and solutions......Page 245
Between market liberalization and sustainable mobility: towards a common European transport policy?......Page 247
Pioneering cities: a way forward?......Page 253
Conclusions......Page 257
Transport policies in European countries......Page 261
Demand management projects......Page 265
Traffic reduction for heavy goods vehicles......Page 266
Traffic reduction in rural areas......Page 267
The economic consequences of traffic reduction......Page 269
Concluding remarks......Page 271
Data on urban transport from a large sample of cities......Page 273
Asian cities in international context......Page 275
Key policy-related contrasts in the sample of cities......Page 279
Transport impacts......Page 288
Conclusion......Page 290
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