Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national go
Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national governments, citizens, car drivers, transport planners and civil society. Two guiding questions are: Will we see a greening of cars, based on technological innovations that sustain the existing car-based system? Or is something more radical desirable and likely, such as the development of travel regimes in which car use is less dominant?
Preface Frank W. Geels, René Kemp, Geoff Dudley and Glenn Lyons Part I:
The Transition Perspective and Problems Associated with Car Mobility
1.
Introduction: Sustainability Transitions in the Automobility Regime and the
Need for a New Perspective René Kemp, Frank Geels and Geoff Dudley
2. Visions
for the Future and the Need for a Social Science Perspective in Transport
Studies Glenn Lyons
3. The Multi-Level Perspective as a New Perspective for
Studying Socio-Technical Transitions Frank Geels and René Kemp Part II:
Stability and Regimes Pressures
4. The Dynamics of Regime Strength and
Instability: Policy Challenges to the Dominance of the Private Car in the UK
Geoff Dudley and Kiron Chatterjee
5. The Governance of Transport Policy Iain
Docherty and Jon Shaw
6. The Nature and Causes of Inertia in the Automotive
Industry: Regime Stability and Non-Change Peter Wells, Paul Nieuwenhuis and
Renato J. Orsato
7. Providing Road Capacity for Automobility: The Continuing
Transition Phil Goodwin
8. A Socio-Spatial Perspective on the Car Regime Toon
Zijlstra and Flor Avelino
9. The Emergence of New Cultures of Mobility:
Stability, Openings, and Prospects Mimi Sheller Part III: Dynamics of Change
10. The Electrification of Automobility: The Bumpy Ride of Electric Vehicles
Towards Regime Transition Renato J. Orsato, Marc Dijk, René Kemp and Masaru
Yarime
11. Introducing Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles in Germany Oliver
Ehret and Marloes Dignum
12. Transition by Translation: The Dutch Traffic
Intelligence Innovation Cascade Bonno Pel, Geert Teisman and Frank Boons
13.
The Emergent Role of User Innovation in Reshaping Traveler Information
Services Glenn Lyons, Juliet Jain, Val Mitchell and Andrew May
14. Innovation
in Public Transport Reg Harman, Wijnand Veeneman and Peter Harman
15.
Intermodal Personal Mobility: A Niche Caught Between Two Regimes Graham
Parkhurst, René Kemp, Marc Dijk and Henrietta Sherwin
16. Findings,
Conclusions and Assessments of Sustainability Transitions in Automobility
Frank Geels, Geoff Dudley and René Kemp
Frank Geels is professorial fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex.
René Kemp is a senior researcher at Maastricht University (ICIS, UNU-MERIT) and Erasmus University (DRIFT).
Geoff Dudley is a political scientist who has worked at the Universities of Oxford, Essex, Warwick, Staffordshire and Strathclyde. In recent years, he has worked on a number of Economic and Social Research Council projects with transport themes and case studies.
Glenn Lyons is the Director of the Centre for Transport & Society and professor of Transport and Society of the University of the West of England.
