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| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction and Overview | |
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| A Highly Mobile Planet and Its Challenges: Automobile Dependence, Equity and Inequity | |
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| Sustainable transportation | |
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| What is sustainable transportation about? | |
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| Unsustainable transportation: The magnitude of the problem | |
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| Hypermobility | |
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| The problems of automobile dependence | |
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| Equity and auto dependence | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Automobile Cities, the Car Culture and Alternative Possibilities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Walking cities, transit cities and automobile cities | |
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| Additional lessons from city types | |
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| Car culture | |
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| Tourism: The car culture evolves into the fly-drive and recreational vehicle cultures | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| History of Sustainable and Unsustainable Transportation: From Walking to Wheels and Back to Walking | |
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| Transportation history: The intersection of modes, infrastructure and society | |
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| Transportation infrastructure: From animal paths to 'Good Roads' | |
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| The rise of automobility | |
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| Rail and railways | |
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| Maritime and water travel | |
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| Feat of flying | |
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| Telecommunications and transportation | |
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| Lessons for sustainable transportation | |
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| Modes, Roads and Routes: Technologies, Infrastructure, Functions and Interrelatedness | |
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| Introduction | |
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| In-town modes: Getting to work, school, shopping, services and recreation | |
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| Regional-metropolitan area modes: Long commutes, regional services, recreation, peak demand | |
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| The barrier effects of different rights of way | |
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| Long distance: Modes and types of travel | |
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| Sustainability considerations | |
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| Futuristic modes | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Moving Freight, Logistics and Supply Chains in a More Sustainable Direction | |
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| Introduction and overview | |
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| Background to current freight movement factors | |
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| Factors that shape freight movement: Supply chains, logistical systems and shipping strategies | |
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| Problems of global supply chains | |
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| Total logistics cost: Widgets near or widgets far? | |
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| Elements aimed at increasing freight sustainability | |
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| Considerations of policy change | |
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| De-globalization of freight? | |
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| Transportation Economics and Investment: Improving Analysis and Investment Strategies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic concepts and principles | |
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| Current evaluation methods | |
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| Hidden and intentional subsidies and externalities | |
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| Opportunity costs | |
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| Critique of current methods with respect to sustainable outcomes | |
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| Regulation versus pricing | |
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| Time-area: An important tool for analysing a transportation investment | |
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| Moving public policy and investment evaluation towards promoting sustainability | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Public Policy and Effective Citizen Participation: Leadership, Deliberation, Back-Casting, Scenarios, Visualization and Visioning | |
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| The public, policy and participation | |
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| Transportation policy: From mobility promotion to mobility management and sustainability | |
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| The public and participation | |
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| Public participation in transportation | |
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| From business as usual to sustainability in transportation | |
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| A New Planning Paradigm: From Integrated Planning, Policy and Mobility Management to Repair, Regeneration and Renewal | |
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| Lessons learned from preceding chapters | |
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| The recognition of the need for a new paradigm: The Buchanan Report and its critics | |
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| Overview of the new paradigm: Integrated policy-making, planning and mobility management | |
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| Towards better management of existing transportation features | |
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| Integrated planning | |
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| Moving from planning and policy to regeneration, repair and renewal | |
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| Sustainable transportation agenda and priorities | |
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| From the new paradigm to its embodiment | |
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| Exemplars of Sustainable Transportation: Walking the Talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The exemplars | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusion: Growing More Exemplars | |
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| Necessities for growing more exemplars | |
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| Success builds success: The power of demonstration projects | |
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| Transit Primer | |
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| Sustainable Transportation Resources Toolbox | |
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| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |