Traffic jam: Ten years of 'sustainable' transport in the UK
Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw
Abstract
This book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable – or subsequently ‘integrated’ – transport policy ten years after the publication of ‘A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone’. It identifies the modest successes and, sadly, the far-more-significant failures in government policy over the last decade. The book also uncovers why it has proved so difficult to adopt a more sustainable approach to transport and break Britain's love affair with the car. It reviews the links between the idea of sustainability and transport policy, and provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of ... More
This book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable – or subsequently ‘integrated’ – transport policy ten years after the publication of ‘A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone’. It identifies the modest successes and, sadly, the far-more-significant failures in government policy over the last decade. The book also uncovers why it has proved so difficult to adopt a more sustainable approach to transport and break Britain's love affair with the car. It reviews the links between the idea of sustainability and transport policy, and provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the political realities surrounding the delivery of a sustainable transport agenda in the UK. The book picks up on the principal components of ‘A New Deal for Transport’ and evaluates to what extent these have, or have not, been delivered in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The chapters analyse why delivering sustainable transport policies seems to present particular difficulties to ministers across the UK, and considers the UK's experience in an international perspective. The book draws lessons from the last ten years in order to better inform future policy development.
Keywords:
transport policy,
government policy,
sustainability,
transport agenda,
UK,
future policy development
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781847420732 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847420732.001.0001 |
