ABSTRACT
Previous chapters have described urban, rural, environmental and social issues in transport and discussed ways in which transport planning might provide appropriate solutions. It is time now to take a broader view and examine policy responses at national and international scales. Regulated and free-market stances are compared and a series of examples – of the UK, the USA, the Netherlands and the European Union – used to illustrate the diversity of existing policies. We conclude that the dominance of free-market approaches in the late twentieth century is creating problems which the market seems unable to solve, thus calling forward imaginative but untried ideas for managing our transport systems with sustainability in mind.
