ABSTRACT
Lessons learned from preceding chapters This chapter builds upon current ideas based on conclusions reached in preceding chapters in order to develop a model incorporating their findings within planning and implementing sustainable transportation (ST). We call this approach the ‘new paradigm’ because it offers a clear distinction from the old paradigm of business as usual (BAU). The new paradigm is based upon the interaction of:
integrated policy and planning and mobility management (or transportation • demand management: TDM); several important ‘background’ factors that need to inform policy and • planning; the development of appropriate infrastructure, techniques and technology.•
Interest in developing a new paradigm in transportation is not necessarily new. Many researchers and analysts have been pointing to the shortcomings of the BAU paradigm and the need for its replacement for many years. Significant names in previous work to create a new paradigm for transportation include John Adams, Terence Bendixson, Eric Britton, Werner Brög, Robert Cervero, Jan Gehl, Carmen Hass-Klau, Mayer Hillman, Rolf Monheim, Peter Newman, Anthony Perl, Stephen Plowden, John Pucher, Richard Register, John Roberts, Kenneth Schneider, Eduardo Vasconcellos, Vukan Vuchic and John Whitelegg. Such a list can never be exhaustive and there are many more; but all those cited above have in one way or another attempted to draw attention to the need to rein in the dominance of the private automobile in the setting of transportation and urban planning policy and, in particular, the future sustainability of cities.
