Front Cover -- Experimenting for Sustainable Transport -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- The Authors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 01. Technological Fixes -- The approach of Strategic Niche Management -- SNM and sustainable development -- Content of the book -- 02. Nurtured Spaces -- Why is there under-utilization of sustainable technologies in transport? -- The structured nature of technological change: technological regimes and paradigms -- Dynamics of regime-shifts -- Defining Strategic Niche Management -- 03. Promises for Sustainable Transport -- Rudimentary analysis of land-based passenger transport regime -- Promising niches for passenger transport -- Promising niches for public transport -- Future transport -- Electrifying mobility -- Reconfiguring mobility -- 04. Experiments in Electrifying Mobility -- The early years: competition with gasoline cars -- Strategies for experiments -- Rügen Island: testing the latest components -- The PIVCO experience: ecological product differentiation -- La Rochelle: market differentiation -- Mendrisio: new mobility option -- Lessons from the experiments -- 05. Experiments in Reconfiguring Mobility -- Competition between gasoline cars and public transportation -- Mixing public and private transport - a new trend? -- Experimental strategies -- Portsmouth's Bikeabout bicycle-pool scheme: getting people out of their cars -- Camden's Accessible Sustainable Transport Integration (ASTI): customizing public transport -- The Swiss mobility co-operative: car-sharing and collective car ownership -- Praxitèle: individualized public transport in France -- Experimental findings -- Reconfiguring mobility revisited -- 06. Strategic Niche Management -- Experiments and niche development -- Improving experiments - the managerial lessons from SNM -- What do the cases tell us about SNM? -- SNM as a tool for transition.

SNM as a modern tool of governance -- An agenda for SNM research and niche management -- Index.

Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.

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