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This book shows that transport matters. Comprising a series of highly accessible chapters written by respected experts, it reviews key transport issues and explains how and why effective and efficient transport is fundamental to successfully addressing all manner of public policy goals.
Contributors explore how we ‘do’ transport, as a result of the technologies available to us and the cultures surrounding how we use them, and examine how this has significant social, economic and environmental consequences. They also provide key recommendations for how we could do things differently to bring about a happier, healthier and more economically secure future for all of us.
Iain Docherty is Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Stirling.
Jon Shaw is Professor of Geography at the University of Plymouth.
Foreword by John McTernan
Part I: Setting the scene
Transport matters ~ Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty
The political economy of transport and travel ~ Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw and David Waite
Energy, pollution and climate change ~ Jillian Anable and Christian Brand
Social inclusion, accessibility and emotional work ~ Jennie Middleton and Justin Spinney
Part II: Dealing with policy inheritance
Influencing travel behaviour ~ Stewart Barr and John Preston
The gentle tyranny of cost-benefit analysis in transport appraisal ~ Robin Hickman
Forecasting road traffic and its significance for transport policy ~ Phil Goodwin
Health, wellbeing and quality of life ~ Angela Curl and Julie Clark
Connecting places: towards a participatory, ordinary urbanism ~ Geoff Vigar and Georgiana Varna
The journey experience ~ Juliet Jain and William Clayton
Public engagement and consultation: decide, announce and defend? ~ Tom Cohen and Dan Durrant
Remote, rural and island communities ~ David Gray
Part III: New policy imperatives
Disruption and resiliene: new realities? ~ David Dawson and Greg Marsden
Changing demographics ~ Charles Musselwhite and Kiron Chatterjee
Will the 'smart mobility' revolution matter? ~ Graham Parkhurst and Andrew Seedhouse
Future mobility ~ Glenn Lyons