Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy.

• A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation.
• Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field.
• Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues.
• Will inform debate over the future of transport policy.
• Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy.

• A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation.
• Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field.
• Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues.
• Will inform debate over the future of transport policy.
• Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

A student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.

• Emphasizes transport geography as a mainstream of human geography
  
• An innovative, qualitative approach offering a wide theoretical and empirical base
  
• A formidable collection of renowned experts in the field
  
• Superbly...

This informed and lively book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable - or subsequently 'integrated' - transport policy 10 years after the publication of "A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone." Written by prominent transport experts and with a foreword by Christian Wolmar, the book identifies the modest successes and, sadly, the far more significant failures in government policy over the last decade. The authors also uncover why it has proved so difficult to adopt a more sustainable approach to transport and break Britain's love-affair with the car.The book...

The book shows that transport matters and examines how and why efficient and effective transport is fundamental to all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore transport's social, economic and environmental consequences and demonstrate how we could do things differently to promote a better future for everyone.

This book moves beyond the explicit critiques of transport policy to offer a wider assessment of the state of transport, travel, and mobility across the UK, in relation to how it interacts with the economy, environment, and society.