Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

This text describes eight experiments with sustainable transport options which are analyzed in the context of established travel practice and car ownership and the problems they pose, and the trends in transport technology and policy that are shaping the future for transport.
This text offers guidance on one of the big problems of today: how to change unsustainable travel patterns based on the use of cars. The book is about user experiments with alternative means and modes of land-based passenger transport - electric vehicles, on-demand public transport services, organised car sharing, self-serviced public vehicles. It describes eight experiments with sustainable transport options which are analyzed in the context of established travel practice and car ownership and the problems they pose, and the trends in transport technology and policy that are shaping the future for transport.