Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Lists of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction and overview -- 1 A highly mobile planet and its challenges: automobile dependence, equity and inequity -- Sustainable transportation, accessible transportation or sustainable mobility? -- What is sustainable transportation about? -- Unsustainable transportation: the magnitude of the problem -- Hypermobility -- The problems of automobile dependence -- Equity, social justice and auto-dependence -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 2 Automobile cities, the car culture and alternative possibilities -- Introduction -- Walking cities, transit cities and automobile cities -- Additional lessons from city types -- Car culture -- Sociology of transportation and the car culture -- Automobility and safety: ideology versus analysis -- The mainstream media and the car culture: myth overshadows reality -- Marketing the myth: screens, earbuds, branding, embedding and product placement -- Movies and TV: the automobile as star and sponsor -- Radio and cars -- Music and the car culture -- Car culture in literature -- 'Carchitecture': reshaping architecture and urban design for automobile cities -- 'Futurama': we have seen the future and it drives! -- Tourism: the car culture evolves into the fly-drive and recreational vehicle cultures -- Conclusions -- 3 History of sustainable and unsustainable transportation: from walking to wheels and back to walking -- Transportation history: the intersection of modes, infrastructure and society -- Walking: the original affordable, healthful and sustainable mode -- Wheels, early vehicles and travel: mostly local and for necessity -- Pilgrimages around the planet -- Mechanization and motorization transform travel and society -- Bicycling: the sustainable path almost taken.

Transportation infrastructure: from animal paths to 'Good Roads' -- The rise of automobility -- Maritime and water travel -- Aviation: from the feat of flying to fly-drive excess -- Telecommunications and transportation: from smoke signals to mobile telephones -- Rail and railways -- Conclusion: lessons for sustainable transportation -- 4 Modes, roads and routes: technologies, infrastructure, functions, energy and inter-relatedness -- Introduction -- In-town modes: getting to work, school, shopping, services and recreation -- Regional-metropolitan area modes: long commutes, regional services, recreation, peak demand -- The barrier effects of different rights of way -- Long distance: modes and types of travel -- Sustainability considerations: fuels, pollution, electric and autonomous vehicles -- Modal energy consumption and occupancy factors in global cities -- Topographically appropriate modes: aerial and suspended trams, monorails, funiculars -- Futuristic, experimental or unproven modes -- Back to the Futuristic: e-bikes, pedicabs, cargo and beer bikes -- Conclusions -- 5 Urban, regional and intercity public transportation: policy, technical, land use and provider aspects -- Introduction -- The relationship between public transportation and land use and transportation planning -- Urban transport systems and their influence on urban form -- Transit as a natural monopoly -- Practical problems besetting public transportation -- The fast-changing mobility and accessibility landscape -- Urban public transportation: urban form and modal integration issues -- Polycentrism and urban mobility -- Bus-rail integration and bus-bus integration -- Growing transit: policy and planning issues -- Promoting transit at all levels of government -- Overcoming stagnant and unimaginative planning -- Addressing the needs of special populations.

Adequate and stable funding -- Synergies between transit and land use -- Participatory planning -- Regional and rural public transportation -- When urban meets regional and rural -- Intercity public transportation: trains and coaches -- Aviation, airports and airport cities -- Private and corporate providers and public transportation -- Special planning and policy issues around the public-private interface -- Park &amp -- Ride: useful or harmful? -- Conclusion -- 6 Urban design for sustainable and active transportation and healthy communities -- Introduction -- Urban planning and urban design: getting our bearings -- Urban design and sustainable transportation -- Urban fabrics theory -- Sustainable urban design -- Conclusion -- 7 Public policy and effective citizen participation for more sustainable transportation: methods and examples -- The public, policy and participation -- Transportation policy: from mobility promotion to mobility management and sustainability -- Transportation policy in the twentieth century: a global perspective -- The public and participation: from Arnstein to Aarhus and the Rio Declaration -- Public participation in transportation: ways to get everyone involved-including trees -- From business as usual (BAU) to sustainability in transportation -- 8 A new planning paradigm: from integrated planning, policy and mobility management to repair, regeneration and renewal -- Lessons learned from preceding chapters -- The recognition of the need for a new paradigm: the Buchanan Report and its critics -- Overview of the new paradigm: integrated policy-making, planning and mobility management -- Towards better management of existing transportation features -- Description of the new paradigm of integrated planning -- New paradigm factors summary -- Moving from planning and policy to regeneration, repair and renewal.

Sustainable transportation agenda and priorities -- From the new paradigm to its embodiment -- 9 Cities on the move: global exemplars of more sustainable transportation -- Introduction -- Vancouver, British Columbia: automobile city to a planner's pilgrimage -- Portland, Oregon: from 'a streetcar named expire' to an aspiring 'streetcar city' -- Boulder, Colorado: small is beautiful and effective -- Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: a pin-up sustainable city -- Seoul, South Korea: rivers of cars to rivers of water and people -- Taming the traffic in non-motorized cities: positive perspectives on Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou -- Conclusions -- 10 Conclusion: growing more exemplars -- Necessities for growing more exemplars -- Heroes and heroicism in sustainable transportation -- Leadership and responsiveness within government -- Academic and professional expertise, the 'long haul' and subverting the dominant paradigm -- Environmental and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- Private-sector leadership -- The creative class: breathing imagination into urban and transportation planning -- Success builds success: the power of demonstration projects -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation illustrates a new planning paradigm for sustainable transportation through case studies from around the world with hundreds of valuable resources and references, color photos, graphics and tables.

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