Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by
engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates
social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation
field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic
changes, which increasingly govern the development of the
transportation sector.
The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social
Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of
California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the
European Science Foundation and the National Science
Foundation.
The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including
geography and regional science, economics, political science,
sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries.
Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally
sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo,
the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a
social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel
and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future
of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls,
potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric
car.
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