Title:	Moving people: Sustainable transport development
Authors:	peter cox
Keywords:	Local development
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Zed Books
Description:	Transport is rapidly becoming one of the most problematic areas for sustainability. The current trends for personal mobility are shaped by the dominant practices of the industrialised nations: the private car as both symbol and tool of the freedom of the modern world. Indeed, in Fordism, part of the very process of twentieth-century industrialisation is defined by the rise of the motor industry, its practices and achievements. However, the demands of sustainability in relation to people’s everyday transport require a radical restructuring of our practices of mobility. The current dominance of automobility as the default mode of transport cannot be sustained in either environmental or social terms (see e.g. Newman and Kenworthy 1999; Vuchic 1999; Vasconcellos 2001; Whitelegg and Haq 2003; Banister 2005). The costs are destructive. Climate change, the destabilising effects of global geopolitics skewed by the demands of oil extraction, localised air pollution, congestion, noise, the severance of communities, the anti-sociality inherent in automobility are simply fragments of the complex and systematic problems of overreliance on the private car.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26687
ISBN:	978 1 84813 002 9
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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