Transport and Sustainability

ISSN: 2044-9941

Editor: Stephen Ison and Jon Shaw
Subject: Transport Theory (view other series in this subject area)
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Transport and Sustainability, a new series launched in 2012 contains original research contributions dealing with a wide range of issues associated with transport, travel, mobility and sustainability. All contributions are subject to double blind peer review. Volumes are edited collections offering incisive and scholarly analysis of these issues from an array of world-leading experts.

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Forthcoming volumes

Volume 4: Sustainable Aviation Futures
Editors: Lucy C S Budd, Steven Griggs, David Howarth
Publication date: July 2013

This volume will bring together some of the leading names in global aviation policy research to provide a unique and ground breaking synthesis of current debates on sustainable aviation. Unlike previous edited works, this volume will be inter-disciplinary and international in nature, drawing on the work of social scientists, transport specialists, and policy experts working in the domains of academia, direct action, and regulation to inform understandings of the prospects for sustainable aviation. Uniquely, the title will explore the context of the challenge and examine both scenarios and coalitions for change. 

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Volume 3: Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities
Editors: Roger L Mackett, Anthony D May, Masanobu Kii, Haixiao Pan
Publication date: January 2013
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This volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010.

The challenges facing urban transport internationally and in China are reviewed in five sections, with chapters considering approaches to policy formulation, the challenge of urban mobility and the development of green sustainable transportation, by reviewing best practice in objective setting, strategy analysis and policy selection, and comparing these with current practice in China.

The authors examine passenger transport, and consider a number of current policy interventions in China and compare these with western experience with demand management and new vehicle technologies.

Topics include a 5D land-use transport model for a high density, rapidly growing city and contextual requirements for electric vehicles in developed and developing countries. Subsequently freight and logistics is addressed, including the role of freight villages and milk run strategies, and challenges and policy recommendations for road freight in Shanghai.  The final chapter addresses implications for future urban transport policy in China.

Reviews

"Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities" provides an invaluable reference to recent research and scholarship on the environmental context for transport in the world's largest urban nation. This volume makes a significant contribution to understanding the environmental challenges posed by this urbanization, as well as the opportunities such urbanization may afford.
Professor Jonathan L. Gifford , George Mason University School of Public Policy, U.S.A

The sustainability of Chinese cities must rank as one of the great contemporary challenges for transport policy makers. This book is a must read for those interested in solving the problems of motorization and urban development. All readers will be interested in the outcomes from this campaign.
John Black, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

I consider that this volume makes a valuable contribution to the debate about the future of sustainable urban transport, not only in China itself, but also with relevance to many other countries
Professor Peter White, University of Westminster, UK

Motorization in developing economies such as those in BRICs, is one of the most serious threats for the global environment. "Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities" presents best practices of policy and the instruments to alleviate the problem as well as to improve the mobility based on the research activities of World Conference on Transport Research Society, a truly international academic society on Transport.
Professor Kazuaki MIYAMOTO, Tokyo City University

'The authors of this book address one of the most important future challenges human mankind will face. The exponential growth of population, urbanisation and (motorised) transport demand and the resource consumption and environmental burdens that must be reversed to create a sustainable world. This book is therefore a must-read for decision makers to support them to understand the challenges they have to solve.'
Professor Guenter Emberger, Institute of Transportation, Austria

Volume 2: Transport and Climate Change
Edited by: Tim Ryley and Lee Chapman
Publication Date: 17th July 2012
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Transport accounts for 23% of global carbon dioxide emissions and is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing.  There is a pressing need for transport, in line with other sectors, to begin reducing emissions to mitigate the impacts of climate change.  However, this is only part of the story.  The world is already committed to some degree of climate change and there is an additional need to adapt transport networks to cope with the future climate. 

This book examines the relationship between transport and climate change at a range of scales and from a series of different perspectives.  The complex post-Kyoto international situation is covered before the discussion at national and then regional levels.  It is clear that every country needs strong national policy to deliver the required greenhouse gas emission reductions.  The UK has been the first country to implement a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book uses a range of UK examples to provide a timely record of progress to date in meeting the demands of the agreement in terms of the mitigation of climate change. 

The importance of climate and socio-economic scenarios is a major thread running through the text. This forms the basis of a series of additional discussions on climate change adaptation, underlining the need for a holistic framework to tackle climate change in the transport sector. 

Volume 1: Cycling and Sustainability
Edited by: John Parkin
Publication date: 24 May 2012
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This book explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. In conditions of relatively low use, cycle users become more closely identified with their means of transport than users of other modes. Such personality-based considerations led to the need initially for the book to explore the cultural development of cycling in countries with high use and the differences in use between different sub-groups of the population. After a consideration of the possible role and function of the private sector, the lessons learned from the book are placed in a socio-political context with a call for required action to create a revolution in cycle use.

About the series

Editorial objectives

Transport and Sustainabilty addresses the important nexus between transport and sustainability. It contains volumes dealing with a wide range of issues relating to transport, its impact in economic, social and environmental spheres, and its interaction with other policy sectors. Editors and authors take a wide range of approaches – some volumes are general and some specific in nature, and analyses are advanced from a host of different disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives – but the defining feature is that each contribution is grounded in a firm appreciation of how its contents relate to the broader imperatives associated with transport and sustainability.

Topicality

Global demand for transport is ever increasing and its effects – both positive and negative – touch almost every aspect of modern life in evermore dramatic ways. Transport’s relationship with the complex concept of sustainability is thus of major concern world-wide, and Transport and Sustainability will form an important contribution to debates within and beyond the transport and travel literatures and policy-making circles. 

Key Benefits

The broad remit of Transport and Sustainabilty enables the series to:

• Offer a platform for cutting-edge, holistic analyses of key challenges associated with conceiving and delivering sustainable transport policies and systems
• Develop a greater understanding and wider dissemination of these challenges based on best practice derived from research
• Advance an international perspective, drawing wherever possible on relevant case studies, evidence or specific location-related phenomena
• Bring together the perspectives of leading researchers in order to stimulate new and innovative thinking in terms of transport and travel.

Books in the Transport and Sustainability series are written in a lively, accessible and engaging manner. All research published in Transport and Sustainability undergoes a double blind peer review process.

Key Audiences

The issues raised by Transport and Sustainability are of international interest and relevance to academics; students of transport, sustainability and sustainable development, economics, geography, sociology, public policy and administration and the environment; and local and central government professionals, politicians and consultants.

Coverage

• All the mechanised transport modes, namely road, rail, maritime and aviation
  ‘active’ forms of transport, most notably cycling and walking
• Policy and governance issues regarding transport’s relationship with inter-related public policy areas
• Transport futures, especially in the context of transport’s emerging relationship with ICTs
  ‘mobilities’ concerns associated with sociological, behavioural and spatial aspects of travel and transport. 

The Editors

Stephen Ison is Professor of Transport Policy at Loughborough University. He has an interest in issues relating to transport and sustainability, and has authored, co-authored and/or edited a number of books in the area including Environmental Policies and Issues (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002), Road User Charging: Issues and Policies (Ashgate 2004) and The Implementation and Effectiveness of Transport Demand Management Measures: An International Perspective (Ashgate 2008). Stephen is Associate Editor of the Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, and Co-editor of the Journal Research in Transportation Business and Management. Stephen is currently Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG 10) Urban Transport Policy as part of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

Jon Shaw is Professor of Transport Geography at Plymouth University. He has a particular interest in issues of transport governance and policy, and has authored and/or edited five books in this field. He is also co-editor of the major textbook Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows and Spaces (Blackwell, 2008). Jon is Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Geography, and a former Chair of the Royal Geographical Society’s Transport Geography Research Group. He has held a number of advisory positions, including Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons’ Transport Committee, and he is currently a member of the First Great Western Advisory Board. Aside from the Transport and Sustainability series, Jon is currently working on three new book projects, including an ambitious venture that brings together transport geographers and mobilities geographers in an effort to develop further linkages between their different approaches to travel and mobility research.

Contact the Editorial Team

Proposals for either authored or edited books should be sent to the series editors:

Professor Stephen Ison, Loughborough University, UK (s.g.ison@lboro.ac.uk)

Professor Jon Shaw, Plymouth University, UK (jon.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk)

For more general information about the series and marketing opportunites:

Publisher: Cristina Irving Turner cirvingturner@emeraldinsight.com

Editorial Assistant: Claire Swift cswift@emeraldinsight.com

Volumes within this series

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Print copy & more information

For more information about any of the volumes listed below, or to purchase a print copy, please click on the relevant volume title:

• Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities, Volume 3
• Transport and Climate Change, Volume 2
• Cycling and Sustainability, Volume 1

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