Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'This is the core text I have been searching for ... an excellent introduction to sustainable transportation.' Mark Zuidgeest, University of Twente & Secretary, Cycling Academic Network 'A comprehensive primer ... [and] an essential manual that not only includes guidance but also seeks to provide an understanding of how we arrived at the system with which we are currently struggling to maintain.' Walter Jeffery Moore, American Institute of Certified Planners 'An informative compendium on transport policy issues of considerable interest to laypersons and experts alike ... Studying this book can be inspiring and is recommended.' Natural Resources Forum 'For any planner or local official struggling with how to address the issues moving their communities sustainably, this is an essential manual that not only includes guidance but also seeks to provide an understanding of how we arrived at the system with which we are currently struggling to maintain.' American Planning Association 'This is the core text I have been searching for! The book provides an excellent introduction to sustainable transportation. It is comprehensive, highly readable, and puts a new critical, but optimistic, angle to the way we look at transportation sustainability. Essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners.' Mark Zuidgeest, Assistant Professor Urban Transport, University of Twente & Secretary, Cycling Academic Network 'Preston Schiller, Eric Bruun and Jeff Kenworthy have all combined careful research with principled advocacy in service of the planet. ... Sustainable Transportation is thus an especially timely work, and it deserves to reach a wide audience. Preston Schiller, Eric Bruun and Jeff Kenworthy have assembled an encyclopedic and useable catalog of the theory, technique and practice needed for recovery from the Twentieth Century's long delusion about hypermobility, and it comes not a moment too soon!' From the Foreword by Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, and Senior Research Associate, Oxford University, UK 'This book on sustainable transport marks a significant improvement in the level of debate and information around this important topic and takes us firmly into the real world of policy, leadership, innovation, citizen action, implementation and the role of visionary politicians. It brings together a formidable trio of experienced researchers and draws on a body of new research from locations around the world that have moved beyond talking and are actually doing something. This is a valuable contribution which should not be underestimated.' Professor John Whitelegg, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York 'This is an excellent detailed manual for serious planning professionals. It goes beyond polemics to offer a sturdy blueprint for a saner future as we leave behind the age of cheap oil and Happy Motoring.' James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere 'For any planner or local official struggling with how to address the issues moving their communities sustainably, this is an essential manual...Written with an accessible style and format, this text presents the issues and guidance which the reader can sip or even gulp without being overwhelmed.' Walter Jeffery Moore, Institute of Transportation Engineers. 'Readable, well referenced and with a good balance of history, detailed data and policy- a useful addition for those wanting to get an overview of Sustainable Transport issues' Manchester Climate Fortnightly, 2010. 'This multi-authored work reflects a new sustainable transportation planning paradigmi? it provides practical tools to allow planners, policy makers, and the general public to determine the best solution to the transport problems facing a community.' 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That's because despite its size (this is no lightweight textbook, in every sense of the word), I carried it around for a good few weeks, ready to dip into at every opportunity.' Gail Jennings, Mobility Magazine 'Besides its goal of shaping planning, policy-making, and citizen activities in a sustainable direction, this book is also a synthesis that draws together a huge amount of technical, social, economic, environmental, and cultural material... a well-structured, unique book that would be useful to a wide audience, including students, planners, policy and decision-makers, and engaged citizens.' Dr. Said M. Easa