Handbook of Sustainable Travel

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Overview of Handbook of Sustainable Travel

      • Dick Ettema, Margareta Friman, Tommy Gärling

      Pages 3-14

   3. Spatial, Generational and Gendered Trends and Trend-Breaks in Mobility

      • Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson

      Pages 15-32

   4. Benefits of Travel: Needs Versus Constraints in Uncertain Environments

      • Soora Rasouli, Harry J. P. Timmermans

      Pages 33-52

   5. Satisfaction and Travel Choices

      • Maya Abou-Zeid, Moshe Ben-Akiva

      Pages 53-65

3. Car Use

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. The Unsustainability of Car Use

      • Bert van Wee

      Pages 69-83

   3. Psychological Motives for Car Use

      • Birgitta Gatersleben

      Pages 85-94

   4. Pricing Methods to Influence Car Use

      • Peter Bonsall, Luis Willumsen

      Pages 95-111

   5. Social Marketing in Travel Demand Management

      • John Thøgersen

      Pages 113-129

   6. Psychological Contributions to the Development of Car Use Reduction Interventions

      • Sebastian Bamberg

      Pages 131-149

   7. Theoretical Underpinnings of Practical Strategies for Changing Travel Behaviour

      • Satoshi Fujii, Ayako Taniguchi

      Pages 151-162

4. Travel and Social Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Social Exclusion and Travel

      • John Stanley, Janet Stanley

      Pages 165-184

   3. Rose Tinted Memories as a Cause of Unsustainable Leisure Travel

      • Jeroen Nawijn, Paul Peeters

      Pages 185-197

   4. Health and Travel

      • Susan Handy

      Pages 199-214

   5. Business Travel and Sustainability

      • Anne Aguiléra

      Pages 215-227

5. Future Sustainable Travel

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Do Future Land-Use Policies Increase Sustainable Travel?

      • Bert van Wee, Susan Handy

      Pages 231-242

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.

• Mobility trends
• Personal and business travel
• Sustainable transportation
• Transportation policy
• Transportation system
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

  Tommy Gärling

• Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Dick Ettema

• SAMOT/CTF, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

  Margareta Friman

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