'Sustainable Transport'- cause or effect of a sustainable future?

摘要

There is a tendency to define 'sustainable urban development' in terms of the transport system, and 'sustainable transport' in terms of reduced greenhouse gas emissions, One weakness in much policy directed at increased sustainability is much 'sustainable transport' comes to be seen as a series of problems that can be fixed, rather than in strategic terms directed at a desired future vision of society and the world. Giving transport a dominant role in defining sustainability means giving it such an influence that we end up manipulating elements in the urban context in order to further a transportation end.