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Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility

New Solutions and Approaches for Sustainable Transport Systems

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  • Multidisciplinary approaches to transition in transport

  • Examples of reversal from supplier orientation towards consumer orientation in public transport

  • Several detailed analyses of pilots on time-differentiated pricing of road use and deliveries by private suppliers

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Integrating Transport Infrastructure and Land Use Planning

  2. Integrating transport infrastructure and land use planning

  3. Experiments with Dynamic Transport Optimization

  4. Experiments with dynamic transport optimization

  5. Towards Reliable Transport Systems

  6. Towards reliable transport systems

  7. Sustainable Logistics and Traffic Management

  8. Sustainable logistics and traffic management

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About this book

Delivering a sustainable transport system is not just a matter of adopting a number of technological innovations to improve performance in terms of people, planet, and profits. A broader structural and societal transition is needed in technology, as well as in institutions, behavioural patterns, and the economy as a whole. In this broader view, neither the free market nor the public sector will be the unique key player in making this transition happen. Elements of such an approach are presented in this book in a number of domains: integrating transport infrastructure and land use planning, thus connecting fields that are rather unconnected in day-to-day policies; experiments with dynamic transport optimization, including reports on pilot projects to test the viability of transitions; towards reliable transport systems, describing a reversal from supply-driven towards demand-driven approaches; and sustainable logistics and traffic management, from ‘local’ city distribution to global closed supply chain loops.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Jo A.E.E. Nunen

  • DINALOG, Breda, Netherlands

    Paul Huijbregts

  • Fac. Econom. Wetenschappen, Inst. Regional Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Piet Rietveld

About the editors

Jo van Nunen received his Master’s and PhD degree in applied Mathematics from the Technical University Eindhoven. Van Nunen was professor of Logistics and Information Systems at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research on e-commerce, closed-loop supply chain management, and multi-modal transportation was published in 6 books and over 150 articles in (inter)national (top) journals. Until 2010, Van Nunen was chairman of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Jo van Nunen unexpectedly passed away in May of 2010.

Paul Huijbregts got his Master’s degree in 1993 in Logistics, Transport Planning and Management from the University of Westminster in London. He works at the Dutch Institute of Advanced Logistics in Breda, the Netherlands, as programme manager within the national innovation programme for logistics and supply chain management. His previous work experience include positions such as programme manager at Transumo – the  Dutch innovation programme on the TRANsition to SUstainable MObility – and Senior Researcher at the Transport Research Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, where he is involved in research on the impact of logistics and transport on infrastructure. He has also conducted many different research projects as a Senior Scientific Researcher at NEA Transport Research in many different national and international / EU projects on multimodal transport, retail logistics, supply chain management and logistics.

Piet Rietveld studied econometrics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (cum laude degree) and received his PhD in economics at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He worked at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) and was research co-ordinator at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, Indonesia. Since 1990 he has been professor in Transport Economics at the Faculty of Economics, VU University, Amsterdam. He is a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility

  • Book Subtitle: New Solutions and Approaches for Sustainable Transport Systems

  • Editors: Jo A.E.E. Nunen, Paul Huijbregts, Piet Rietveld

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21192-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-21191-1Published: 19 August 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44688-7Published: 13 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-21192-8Published: 19 August 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 317

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Operations Management, Environmental Economics

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