Excerpts from my book, Gridlock: Congested Cities, Contested Policies, Unsustainable Mobility, have just been included in a brand new online portal, Sustainable Development Goals Online<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclick.email.taylorandfrancis.com%2F%3Fqs%3Db3a17ba3e4779d8f7e3262c2b3b9c1c6467b688808ada605e02bf6e2664e0df8ff76d4a719fe878d0fcdfdbf66fc95c266de1470baee182b&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6e3e47dae30548a0146608d703b0e275%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636981930556417791&sdata=jQyfAckTzFn2p4Nh%2Bb5Wa7hl5lYjIV2biw9YJEtDNDM%3D&reserved=0>, which launched on 1st July 2019. Taylor & Francis has created the world's biggest specialist library to support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals initiative and help university researchers, faculty, and students understand and address humanity's biggest challenges. The portal is timely given the climate crisis and environmental problems created by unsustainable growth policies. Transportation is a major contributor to carbon emissions, noise and air pollution and several chapters in Gridlock address the causes and consequences of transportation policies that promote unsustainable mobility.
Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in transportation management and congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies. In Gridlock: Congested Cities, Contested Policies, Unsustainable Mobility, transport researcher and consultant John C. Sutton explores how two competing discourses in transport policy and planning practice - convivial and competitive ideologies - lead to contradictory solutions and a gridlock in policy as well as on transport systems. Gridlock examines current transport and mobility in a geographical, social, political-economy and technological context. The challenges of rising congestion are highlighted through case studies from the UK, the USA, and OECD countries. Sutton offers readers a vision of a sustainable mobility future through the concept of mobility management, combining mobile communication and information technology with logistics to match travel demand to the capacity of transport systems.
Essential reading for transport professionals and students of transportation planning and policy, Gridlock offers a unique manifesto for sustainable mobility settlement, addressing the pressing problems of growing populations and congestion while looking ahead to a more sustainable future. In the words of one reviewer:
"In this timely and thought provoking book, John Sutton questions our ability to tackle the unprecedented transport and mobility challenges we face with policies that are in the final analysis not fit for purpose. In identifying the 'policy gaps' that have arisen, he presents policy makers and planners with fresh insights and provides a powerful framework for a much needed new approach." - David Gillingwater, Honorary Fellow in Transport Studies, Loughborough University
The book can be reviewed here, and is also available on Amazon.
https://www.routledge.com/Gridlock-Congested-Cities-Contested-Policies-Unsustainable-Mobility/Sutton/p/book/9781138851979
John Sutton
JCS Consulting
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