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Community-Owned Transport (Paperback)
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Community-Owned Transport (Paperback)
Series: Transport and Mobility
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City and state governments around the world are struggling to
achieve environmentally sustainable transport. Economic,
technological, city and transport planning and human behaviour
solutions are often hampered by ineffective implementation. So
attention is now turning to institutional, governmental and
political barriers. Approaches to these implementation problems
assume that transport ownership can only be public (owned by state
entities) or private (corporate or personal). Another option -
largely unexplored to date - is communal ownership of transport.
Community-Owned Transport proposes and develops the notion that
communal ownership has a historical basis and provides unique
opportunities for providing personal mobility. It looks at the
historical roots of modern urban transport's failings as those of
technological change and the associated governing of transport
systems, particularly the role of public sector institutions.
Community ownership is explored through the new 'sharing economy'
developments - car sharing, ridesharing and bicycle share schemes -
and older social innovations in ecovillages and communal living.
Models and practices of community ownership of transport are
provided and this study also discusses how community ownership
might contribute to sustainable transport. Drawing widely on
different disciplines and fields of scholarship, this book explores
the conceptual and practical aspects of communal ownership of
transport. It will be a valuable resource for those seeking
innovative approaches to addressing the pressing problems of
transport, including graduate and postgraduate students, as well as
policymakers, practitioners and community groups.
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