The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Urban Transport

1. Introduction to sustainable urban transport

Lucy Budd, Stephen Ison and Maria Attard

2. Rapidly-growing cities and transport challenges: the search for sustainable solutions

Andrew R. Goetz

Part I: Urban transport sectors

3. Short-distance travel in urban areas

Karyn Scerri and Maria Attard

4. Cycling and micromobility

Ralph Buehler and Vahid Bakhshi

5. Children’s travel and sustainability

E. Owen D. Waygood, Maria Johansson, and Anna Litsmark

6. Reducing universities’ carbon emissions from urban business travel

Tyler Breeze, Ian D. Williams, Ben Anderson and Rahul Jain

7. Mobility and health operations from a collaborative perspective

Sandra Wegener, Juliane Stark, Yusak Susilo, and Laura Kermer

8. Transport for retail in urban areas

Joris Beckers, Adrien Beziat, Johan Hagberg, and Miguel Jaller

9. The online check-out for local authorities: a toolkit for sustainable e-commerce deliveries

Koen Mommens, Tanguy Baiwir, Johan Peeters, Bruno Bianchet and Sabine Limbourg

10. Commuting: the rise of urban air mobility?

Julia Schaumeier and Anna Straubinger

11. Sustainable urban tourism: a comparative international review

Luca Zamparini

Part II: Challenges, issues and impacts

12. Environmental impacts

Genevieve Giuliano and Ahsan Habib Joy

13. The dynamics of urban congestion in European cities: was COVID-19 a turning point?

Daniel Albalate and Xavier Fageda

14. Urban transport and human health

Charles Musselwhite

15. Transit safety

Vania Ceccato

16. Traveller and driver safety in an urban context

George Yannis and Eleonora Papadimitriou

17. Trends of urban mobility systems in the Global South: the case of African cities

Nora Mareï, Olivier Ninot, Solène Baffi and Jérôme Lombard

18. Destinations unknown: equity and justice debates in sustainable transportation

Matthew Palm

Part III: Technical, social and economic solutions

19. Fare-free public transport: from policy fringes to an established practice

Wojciech Kębłowski, Monika Maciejewska, Merlin Gillard, Kobe Boussauw and Veronique Van Acker

20. Taxes, levies and subsidies

John Preston

21. Governance – the role of public and private actors for sustainable urban transport systems

Lisa Hansson and Johan Holmgren

22. Unleashing the potential: exploring user choices and societal implications of MaaS

Chinh Ho and Toshiyuki Yamamoto

23. Navigating low demand landscapes: a comprehensive exploration of sustainable transportation strategies

Cristina Bircu, Federico Cavallaro and Silvio Nocera

24. Commuting mode choice and work from home in the later stages of COVID-19: implications for sustainability

David A. Hensher, Matthew J. Beck, Camila Balbontin, and John D. Nelson

25. Differentiated travel demand management based on travellers’ heterogeneous preference: a case study of Beijing subway peak-avoidance policy

Yacan Wang, Yu Wang, Kexin Geng, and Zhiyuan Liang

26. Analysing the effectiveness of urban transport interventions using sustainability indicators

Hemanthini Allirani and Ashish Verma

27. The role of renewable energy to promote future electric transport and power systems

Omkar Parishwad, Arsalan Najafi, Xiaohan Liu, and Kun Gao

28. Automation and sustainable urban transport

Alexandros Nikitas

Biography

Lucy Budd is a human geographer and Professor of Transport Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK and Honorary Professor of Sustainable Transport, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, Australia.

Stephen Ison is a Professor of Transport Policy at Leicester Castle Business School at De Montfort University, UK and Honorary Professor of Transport Policy, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, Australia.

Maria Attard is Head of Geography and Director of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Malta.