An introduction to sustainable transportation : policy, planning and implementation / Preston L. Schiller, Eric C. Bruun and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A highly mobile planet and its challenges: automobile dependency, equity and inequity -- Automobile cities, the car culture and alternative possibilities -- History of sustainable and unsustainable transportation: from walking to wheels and back to walking -- Modes, roads, and routes: technologies, infrastructure, functions and interrelatedness -- Moving freight, logistics and supply chains in a more sustainable direction -- Transportation economics and investment: improving analysis and investment strategies -- Public policy and effective citizen participation: leadership, deliberation, backcasting, scenarios, visualization, and visioning -- A new planning paradigm: from integrated planning, policy and mobility management to repair, regeneration and renewal -- Exemplars of sustainable transportation: walking the talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya -- Conclusion: growing more exemplars.

"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. 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. 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."--Publisher's description.