Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Fundamentals of Sustainable Transport -- 1.1 The ingredients of sustainable transport -- 1.2 Towns, territories and sustainable transport -- 1.3 Energy and sustainable transport -- 1.4 The environment and sustainable transport -- 1.4.1 "Sensitive" pollutants -- 1.4.2 Greenhouse gases -- 1.5 Material and sustainable transport -- 1.6 A "committed" change in Europe and elsewhere? -- 1.7 Toward a better understanding of the impacts of transport -- 1.8 A strategy for sustainable transport -- Chapter 2 Vehicles: An Element of the Solution for Sustainable Transport -- 2.1 Technology: from evolution to revolution -- 2.2 Combustion engines -- 2.3 Environmental and energy efficiency -- 2.4 Hybridization and electrification -- 2.4.1 Vehicles -- 2.4.2 Batteries -- 2.4.3 Constraints for recharging -- 2.5 Energy solutions -- 2.5.1 Fuels (refer to the glossary for alternative fuels) -- 2.5.2 Emerging solutions -- 2.6 Noise emissions -- 2.6.1 Overall vehicle noise -- 2.6.2 Noise reduction -- 2.6.3 Noise regulation and its impact on noise environment -- 2.7 The intelligent vehicle: "safe-smart-secure" -- 2.8 Sustainable vehicles and transport -- Chapter 3 A Systemic Approach to Transport Schemes -- 3.1 Transport corridors2 -- 3.2 Transport mode, effective velocity and distance traveled -- 3.3 Articulating modes and scales -- 3.4 Transport scenarios -- 3.4.1 Scenario 1: private transport -- 3.4.2 Scenario 2: organized public transport -- 3.4.3 Comparison of the two scenarios -- 3.5 The transport of goods -- 3.6 The prospects for sustainable transport -- Chapter 4 Can We Organize Sustainable Mobility? -- 4.1 Understanding mobility -- 4.2 Principles of sustainable mobility -- 4.3 Massification -- 4.4 Developing, pooling and using data to attain sustainable mobility -- 4.5 Mobility and urban planning.

4.6 Urban mobility of people, example of multimodality -- 4.7 Intercity mobility of people -- 4.8 Logistics: the mobility vector of merchandise -- 4.9 The re-appropriation of urban logistics -- 4.10 Intercity logistics: squaring the circle? -- 4.11 Paradoxes and mirrors of sustainable mobility -- Chapter 5 Innovation Projects for Sustainable Transport Systems -- 5.1 Dealing with the transport system through the multistakeholder approach -- 5.1.1 LUTB Transport & Mobility Systems3 think tanks (see the appendix about LUTB) -- 5.2 Transport systems and energy -- 5.2.1 Electric charging stations -- 5.2.2 Other fast charging -- 5.2.3 Toward electric motorways? -- 5.2.4 Other energy solutions -- 5.3 Transportation systems and architecture -- 5.4 Intelligent transport systems (ITS) -- 5.4.1 Several European projects on intelligent transport -- 5.4.2 Linking of systemic layers of intelligence -- 5.4.3 Toward an interoperable continuous chain -- 5.4.4 Man-master on board? -- 5.5 The integration of transport systems, services and transport solutions -- 5.5.1 Development of equipment -- 5.5.2 Development of services -- 5.5.3 Transport solutions -- 5.5.4 Innovations in operation and supervision -- 5.5.5 The linking of systems in a mobility solution -- 5.6 Application prospects -- Chapter 6 Public Policies, Economics and Sustainable Transport -- 6.1 From global to local -- 6.1.1 Impact on climate -- 6.2 European transport policy -- 6.2.1 Research support -- 6.2.2 Taxation and financial policy -- 6.3 Link between the European level and local level -- 6.4 Public policy and economics -- Conclusions - Directions -- Bibliography -- Glossary for Alternative Fuels -- Appendix-LUTB Transport and Mobility Systems -- Index.

Transport systems have to meet the mobility needs of people and commodities on all scales, from the local to the global level. Concerns about the energy, fumes and sound emissions produced, and about the safety, service quality, intelligence and lifecycle of the systems, etc. can all be included in a systemic approach. This approach can contribute to the development of sustainable solutions, for individual vehicles as well as for transport systems. Derived from an approach combining the social and physical sciences, these solutions result from the integration of physical objects, services and organizational processes, which involve several actors. Their harmonious organization contributes to the development of more virtuous transport systems for the future of urban and inter-urban mobility.

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