Navigating Detours in the Mobility Transition
Vincent Kaufmann editor Mimi Sheller editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:16th Nov '26
£171.99
This title is due to be published on 16th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
"Detours are glitches, anomalies, or friction that block, prevent, and obstruct intentions, plans, and goals. ‘Detours in the Mobility Transition’ is an important analytical wake-up call to why things are moving so slow, why matters of concern still seem to stall, and why the much-needed environmental transition takes so long. The mobility transition needed has been detoured, and in this book, we learn how and why. This is important for critical action to take place, and for any way to mitigate the detours of mobility transition. Through five sections the book covers an analytical framework based on mobilities thinking, how the transition needs regulation and control, how transforming lifestyles are necessary to challenge the lock-ins of human practices working against transition, the need for innovation, and not least how to be ‘breaking locks’ in order for transition actually to happen. The book is a must-read for all critically, concerned urban mobility scholars, transportation planners, and policy makers."
Professor Ole B. Jensen, Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS), Aalborg University
"An essential read not just for social scientists, but for anyone preoccupied with the climate crisis and how to transform our ways of travelling. Covering a wide range of topics and examples from around the globe, this book helps us rethink sustainable mobility transitions at a timely moment, in the face of mounting backlash against decarbonization policies."
Professor Claire Colomb, Department of Land Economy, School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge.
ISBN: 9781041223825
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392 pages