ABSTRACT

Sustainable transportation This chapter presents an approach to characterizing, defining and exploring a few of the major issues associated with transportation and efforts to move it towards greater sustainability. Several differences between conventional approaches to transportation, business as usual (BAU) and sustainable transportation (ST) are delineated. A brief treatment of the expansiveness and extensiveness of freight and passenger mobility and some aspects of transportation infrastructure are presented in order to put some of the issues surrounding these into a broad, even global, perspective. Two major issues confronting ST, automobile dependence and (in)equity, are discussed in depth.