Navigating Detours in the Mobility Transition

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-22382-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book offers a comprehensive diagnosis of the current situation of mobility policies and an examination of potential actions to promote sustainable mobility by changing practices and challenging political decision-makers.

With contributions from leading experts, this book shares innovations that are working, develops promising strategies to overcome backsliding, and highlights worldwide experiences in overcoming the many obstacles in the urgently needed mobility transition. Covering 22 countries on five continents, it provides a global perspective on sustainable mobility transitions, including innovative transport policies covering North and South America, Europe, Africa, India, China and Japan. Through 50 chapters, illustrated with graphs, charts, and images, the book presents state of the art and up to date perspectives at the cutting edge of current issues, challenges, and opportunities. In doing so, it offers an overview of the current stakes of world-wide mobility transition and decarbonization.

This book will be of interest to urban and transport planning professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in sustainability and mobility. It will also be valuable for governmental agencies, regional and urban departments of transportation and mobility, transport planners and transit and cycling advocacy organizations as well as decision-makers in charge of mobility issues at different institutional levels.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufmann, Vincent

Sheller, Mimi

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: The Long and Burning Road General Introduction Background: How Much Time Do We Have Part I: Transforming Fundamental Frameworks to Account for Planetary Limits 1. The Great Acceleration 2. Rejecting Injustice 3. Reinventing the Right to Mobility 4. Transforming Social Norms 5. Breaking With the Car System 6. Tackling Gender Inequalities 7. Placing Citizens' Aspirations at the Heart of Policy 8. Stop Using Modelling as a Trojan Horse for Carbon-Intensive Mobility 9. Redefining Accessibility: A Condition for Just Mobility Policies 10. Changing Mobility in a Globalised World 11. Making Digital Technologies an Ally 12. Recognising the Weight of Road Transport 13. Biodiversity and Climate: A Common Battle 14. Understanding Local Practices to Strengthen the Global Transition Part II: Policies and Regulations for Decarbonising Mobility 15. Regulating Speed 16. Taxing Effectively 17. Rethinking Urban Planning 18. Cutting Air Travel 19. Organising Rationing Before It Is Imposed 20. Reducing Business Travel 21. Calming Life Rhythms 22. Enabling Proximity-Based Living 23. Putting the Car Back in Its Place Through the Car Budget Part III: Enabling Alternative Lifestyles That Are Desirable and Ecological 24. Designing a Residential Mobility Policy 25. Embracing the Complexity of Work-Related Mobility 26. Organising Teleworking to Reduce Travel 27. Curbing the Mobility of the Super-Rich 28. Transforming, Reducing and Decolonising Tourism 29. Integrating Leisure Into Mobility Policies 30. Leveraging Residents to Drive Change 31. Developing Everyday Rail 32. Organising Intermodality 33. Launching the Bike Revolution 34. Making Walking Possible at Last Part IV: A World Tour of Ideas to Follow… or Not 35. Europe: Changing So That Nothing Changes 36. North America I: Full Speed Ahead 37. North America II: Car-Sharing 38. South America: A Laboratory of Mobility 39. Africa: Breaking Free From Car Dependency 40. Japan: The Challenge of Demographic Decline 41. China: A Push for Electrification 42. The Global South: Reimagining Mobility Part V: Breaking the Deadlocks 43. Avoiding Travel: The Unpopular Option 44. The Dead End of Electric Cars 45. Resisting the Automobile Lobby 46. The Geopolitics of Electrification: A Ticking Time Bomb 47. Social Innovation for Community-Based Resource Management 48. Access to Alternatives to the Car 49. The First and Last Mile: The Great Neglected Issue 50. In Rural Areas, a Car-Free Future

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent Kaufman is a professor of urban sociology and mobility analysis at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, where he directs the Urban Sociology Laboratory (LaSUR). His current research focuses on mobility and its links to transformations in contemporary societies and territories.

Mimi Sheller is the Dean of The Global School and is an internationally recognized scholar and higher education leader, with fifteen years of executive leadership across academic units, research centers, and professional organizations. Prior to joining WPI, she was tenured Professor of Sociology, Head of the Sociology Department, and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia.