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Potter, Stephen
(2013).
URL: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book234882
Abstract
This chapter reviews key energy challenges for transport, concluding that the strategic energy challenge is to achieve a low carbon transport future that also ensures adequate and secure supplies of energy. How this could be achieved is a major challenge. Currently there is a debate regarding the relative roles of supply-side technical measures to promote cleaner fuels and fuel economy as opposed to modal shift and other demand management measures. THowever, the key factors identified in this chapter suggest that a multi-level approach needs to be adopted to include actions that feed from the product level (new low carbon technologies) into the generation of new service and mobility models; these cannot succeed without a shift in the transport system’s institutional structures.
This last level is possibly the greater and most neglected challenge; both institutional and regulatory structures are needed that facilitate (rather than hinder) innovative service and mobility models and transport policy and professional skills/organisations that understand and value such approaches. Only with such a multi-level systems understanding resulting in effective action at all levels can sustainable transport be a realistic proposition.
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- 32176
- Item Type
- Book Section
- ISBN
- 1-84920-789-5, 978-1-84920-789-8
- Keywords
- transport energy; sustainable development; transport demand management; low carbon vehicles; transport innovation
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Engineering and Innovation
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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- Stephen Potter