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Individual mobility is a basic human need. However, with the growth of global population, wealth, and technological development this need has led to long-term sustainability challenges with climate change and global gridlock being perhaps the most pressing issues. Solutions are complex and require changes in vehicle technology, infrastructure, driver behaviour, vehicle numbers, business models and inter-modality. While the path to solve the climate change challenge is rather established there is as yet no blueprint for the global gridlock issue. An integrated approach and strong cooperation between stakeholders is required.
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We are very thankful for the critical and thorough review of this paper by Andy Taylor, Sustainability Environmental and Safety Engineering Ford of Europe. Special thanks also to Sandy Winkler for preparing the statistics on global carbon emissions.
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Schmidt, W.P., Wallington, T.J. (2014). Towards Sustainable Individual Mobility: Challenges and Solutions. In: Wellnitz, J., Subic, A., Trufin, R. (eds) Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2013. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01884-3_16
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