Overview
- Explains the evolution of transport systems and extrapolates to make predictions about the future
- Conceptualizes innovation policy for the transport sector
- Provides a thorough overview of evolutionary economics and the sociology of transport technology
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure (LNITI)
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This book supports companies in the transport sector, political decision-makers, transport engineers, planners and scientists doing fundamental research who are confronted by growing challenges in transport. These challenges arise from a number of powerful socio-technical trends, including: digitalisation, globalisation, urbanisation, and the requirements of individual users and the increased need to reduce environmental impact of transport. Providing the innovations required to cope with these challenges is not a simple matter.
Towards Innovative Transport Systems structures and compiles theoretical foundations from evolutionary economics, the sociology of technology and innovation research in a way that provides a broad understanding of innovation processes without demanding prior knowledge. Using the Concept of Transport System Evolution (CTSE), it explains in depth the economics of innovation in the transport sector, thus contextualising processes, drivers and obstacles at work in current practice; among such processes are the changeover to electric mobility, the realization of autonomous cars, the revival of railway by innovations and dealing with disruptive innovations in transport. The CTSE is an approach to making concrete the multi-level perspective for the transport sector introduced by Frank Geels. On the basis of the CTSE, the author proposes principles for a novel innovation policy in transport that can serve the reader as a guide when making strategic decisions.
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Book Title: Towards Innovative Transport Systems
Book Subtitle: Evolution and Ground-Breaking Developments
Authors: Stephan Müller
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08572-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08571-0Published: 25 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08574-1Published: 26 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08572-7Published: 24 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-3440
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Industries, Business and Management, general