Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and reveals viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. It challenges the commonly held view that a combination of urbanity and higher residential density expressed in compact cities (expected to have greater public transport use) will resolve urban transport/environment problems, instead showing that transport systems can be changed to meet the environmental imperatives without the massive spatial change implied.
Complete with a companion website with a wealth of supporting material around the topic, this is essential read for all students and practitioners of transport planning.
Companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/Low
