WIT Press


How Sustainable Is Research On Sustainable Mobility: A Review Of Five Years Of 'Urban Transport'

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

52

Pages

10

Published

2001

Size

828 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/UT010141

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

J.H.R. van Duin, C. Sroor-Pierantozzi, T. Miyama & A.H. Sulasmoro

Abstract

In the past few years policy makers seem to pay more attention to the development of sustainable mobility. One of the main reasons for this change of thinking is due to the deterioration of the environmental conditions in urban areas. However, we think that the research also plays an important part here. Therefore, with respect to this topic an inventory was made concerning the past five years of the Urban Transport conferences. Using a system's view on transportation, we classified all the research contributions related to the topic sustainable mobility. A distinction is made between people and freight. Longitudinal research can make it more clear to us whether the a

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