Overview
- Editors:
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Tommy Gärling
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Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
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Dick Ettema
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Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Margareta Friman
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SAMOT/CTF, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
- Offers wide-ranging research and analysis of the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable personal travel
- Includes a clear account of how modern car-dependent travel evolved to its current dominance, with insight on how technology and behaviors might be altered towards more sustainability
- Provides in-depth discussion of future modes of travel, and alternatives to travel, that could lead toward environmentally sustainable travel
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Dick Ettema, Margareta Friman, Tommy Gärling
Pages 3-14
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- Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Pages 15-32
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- Soora Rasouli, Harry J. P. Timmermans
Pages 33-52
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- Maya Abou-Zeid, Moshe Ben-Akiva
Pages 53-65
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Car Use
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- Peter Bonsall, Luis Willumsen
Pages 95-111
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- Satoshi Fujii, Ayako Taniguchi
Pages 151-162
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Travel and Social Sustainability
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Front Matter
Pages 163-163
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- John Stanley, Janet Stanley
Pages 165-184
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- Jeroen Nawijn, Paul Peeters
Pages 185-197
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Future Sustainable Travel
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Front Matter
Pages 229-229
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- Bert van Wee, Susan Handy
Pages 231-242
About this book
This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services research; environmental sociology and well-being research. The underlying dilemma is that neither contemporary transportation technology nor contemporary travel behaviors are sustainable. The path toward sustainability is complex, because the consequences of changing technology and attempts to change travel preferences can be extreme both in economic and in social terms. The Handbook of Sustainable Travel discusses transportation systems from environmental, social and economic perspectives, to provide insights into the underlying mechanisms, and to envisage potential strategies towards more sustainable travel. Part I offers an introduction to the subject, with chapters review historical and future trends in travel, the role of travel for a good society, and the satisfaction of travelers with various features of travel options. Part II proceeds from the fact that the car is the backbone of today’s transportation system, and that a break with automobiles is likely to be necessary in the future. Contributors review the development of private car use, explore economic and psychological reasons why the car has become the primary mode of transport and discuss how this can be changed in the future. Part III addresses the social sustainability of travel, providing insights into the social costs and benefits of leisure, business and health travel, and taking into account the social costs or benefits of measures whose goals are primarily environmental. The authors provide the necessary background to judge whether proposed transport policies are also sustainable from a social perspective. Part IV highlights future alternatives to physical travel and surveys ecologicallysustainable travel modes such as public transport and non-motorized modes of transportation.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
Tommy Gärling
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Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dick Ettema
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SAMOT/CTF, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
Margareta Friman
