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Social Change and Sustainable Transport
Edited by William R. Black and Peter Nijkamp
Published by: Indiana University Press
320 Pages, 41 b&w photos, 52 figures, 1 index
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Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector.
The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.
Pathways to Sustainable Transport and Basic Themes: Introduction
Part I. An Overview
1. Social Change and Sustainable Transport: A Manifesto on Transatlantic Research Opportunities
2. Social Trends and Research Needs in Transport and Environmental Planning3. Research Issues Regarding Societal Change and Transport: An Update4. Sustainable Transport
5. Information and Communication Technologies and Transport
6. Globalization and Transportation: Contradictions and Challenges
7. Institutional Dimensions of Sustainable Transport
Part II. Social Change and Sustainability of Transport
8. Social Implications of Sustainable Transport
9. EU Policy Scenario Building for Sustainable Mobility
10. A Study of EU-U.S. Integrated Policies to Address the Consequences of Social Change for the Sustainability of Transport
11. Transport-Land Use Relations in Restructuring Metropolitan Areas: Implications for Air Quality in Chicago and Stockholm
12. Social Change and Transportation in U.S. Edge Cities
Part III. Dependence on the Automobile
13. Keeping the Holy Grail: The "Mobility View" of the Danish Automobile Club FDM
14. Car Dependence as a Social Problem: A Critical Essay on the Existing Literature and Future Needs
15. Growing Up With and Without a Family Car
16. Sustainable Lifestyles? Microsimulation of Household Formation, Housing Choice, and Travel Behavior
Part IV. Quality, Equity and Mobility
17. Sustainable Transport and Quality of Life: A Psychological Analysis
18. Introducing Environmental Equity Concerns into the Discourse on Sustainable Transport: A Research Agenda
19. Women and Travel: The Sustainability Implications of Changing Roles
20. Mobility Behavior of the Elderly: Its Impact on the Future Road Traffic System
21. Residential Location and Daily Mobility Patterns: A Swedish Case Study of Households with Children
Part V. Increasing Travel and Transport
22. Driven to Travel: The Identification of Mobility-Inclined Market Segments
23. Picnics, Pets, and Pleasant Places: The Distinguishing Characteristics of Leisure Travel Demand
24. The Impact of Day Tourism on the Environment and Sustainability: The Northwestern Mediterranean Arc
25. Company Cars and Company-Provided Parking
26. Can a Decoupling of Traffic and Economic Growth Be Envisaged?
Part VI. Sustainability and Freight Transport
27. External Costs of Belgian Freight Traffic: A Network Analysis of Their Internalization
28. Toward Multimodal Networks and Nodes of Freight Transport in the European Union
29. Technological Innovations and Spatio-Organizational Changes: Toward a Sustainable Urban Freight Transport System
30. The Future of Railway Transport in Europe: Toward Sustainable Development
Part VII. Cultural Perspectives
31. Transport Culture and the Economy of Speed: Speed Limits and Changing Patterns of Accessibility in the United Sates
32. Transport and Logistics in City Regions: Driving Forces for Counterurbanization?
33. N3: The Intersection of Transportation Networks, Communication Networks, and Community Networks
Part VIII. Alternative Solutions
34. Implementation of Pricing Measures for Sustainable Transport: Investigating Economic Efficiency and Social Acceptability
35. Consumer E-Commerce, Virtual Accessibility, and Sustainable Transport
36. Uncertainty in Adoption of Sustainable Transport Technology: The Electric Vehicle
Closing Thoughts and a Look toward the Future
William Black is Professor of Geography and Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He directed rail planning for the State of Indiana during the rail restructuring in the Midwest and Northeast in the 1970s. He then served as a member of the Philadelphia-based task force that created Conrail. Returning to Indiana in 1980, he served as the first Director of the Indiana Department of Transportation. He has been a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council for more than 30 years, and currently chairs the Committee on Social and Economic Factors in Transportation.
Peter Nijkamp has been professor of regional and urban economics and of economic geography at the Free University in Amsterdam. He has published extensively in public policy, services planning, infrastructure management, and environmental protection. He has been an advisor to several Dutch ministries, regional and local policy councils, employers' organizations, private institutions, the EU, OECD, ECMT, ADB, European Roundtable of Industrialists, ICOMOS, the World Bank, and many other institutions. He is the 1996 recipient of the Spinoza Award.