Transforming Urban Transport : From Automobility to Sustainable Transport.

Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must...

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Main Author: Low, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Summary:Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, and non-motorised transport work together to reduce climate change pressures, enhance urban quality and preserve life and health. The book challenges the commonly held view that a combinatio.
Physical Description:1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:9781136187919
113618791X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.