Making Urban Transport Sustainable

NICHOLAS LOW is Associate Professor in environmental planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published several books with Brendan Gleeson. Their 1998 book Justice, Society and Nature won the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for ecological politics. Recent works include three edited collections: Consuming Cities, Global Ethics and Environment and Governing for the Environment. Low and Gleeson received the 2001 national scholarship award from the Royal Australian Planning Institute for their book Australian Urban Planning. - BRENDAN GLEESON is the Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney. His research and teaching has been conducted in a range of countries including Britain, the USA, Germany, Sweden and New Zealand. In 1997, Brendan was the Australian National University visiting scholar at the Australian Centre, University of Potsdam, Germany.

• List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Internet Websites Is Urban Transport Sustainable?; N.Low PART I: GLOBAL ISSUES IN TRANSPORT SUSTAINABILITY Global Cities, Transport, Energy and the Future: Will Ecosocialization Reverse the Historic Trends?; P.Newman The Peak of Oil: An Economic and Political Turning Point for the World; C.Campbell The Effect of E-commerce on Transportation Demand; H.Stiller Automotive Pollution Control Technologies; C.Destefani & E.Siores PART II: REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STUDIES Towards Sustainable Transportation Policy in the United States: A Grassroots Perspective; C.Yee Transport in the European Union: Time to Decide; J.Whitelegg Transport Sustainability in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands; E.Tengström The Privatization of the Japan National Railways: The Myth of Neo-liberal Reform and Spatial Configurations of the Rail Network in Japan - A View from Critical Geography; I.Takeda & F.Mizuoka Developing Public Transport Systems in Indian Cities: Towards a Sustainable Future; S.Banerjee-Guha Transport and Land Use in Chinese Cities: International Comparisons; G.Hu Barriers to Sustainable Transport in Australia; B.Gleeson, C.Curtis & N.Low PART III: BEST PRACTICE IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Towards Sustainable Urban Transportation in the European Union; I.Elander & R.Lidskog Managing Transport Demand in European Countries; J.Whitelegg & N.Low Lessons from Asia on Sustainable Urban Transport; P.Barter, J.Kenworthy & F.Laube Bibliography Index