Overview
- Highlights the need to switch from private vehicles to low carbon public transport
- Presents several international case studies, discussing their successes and failures
- Discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced individual transport choices
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Astley Hastings is a Reader in Environmental Science in the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. He is a chartered engineer and environmental scientist, with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc and PhD in Environmental Science. After 30 years of commercial experience, working in many senior capacities in the railway, power and oil and gas industries, Dr. Hastings conducts research into the greenhouse gas emissions, environmental impact and its mitigation from land use, low carbon energy and transport infrastructure. His work also focuses on greenhouse gas removal using afforestation and bioenergy carbon capture and storage and decommissioning and reuse of offshore energy assets and the impact on the environment.
Professor John Nelson holds the Chair in Public Transport, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), University of Sydney. He was previously the Sixth Century Chair of Transport Studies in the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Director of the Centre for Transport Research. John is particularly interested in the application and evaluation of new technologies to improve transport systems as well as the policy frameworks and regulatory regimes necessary to achieve sustainable mobility. He an Editorial Board member of several leading journals and co-author of Understanding Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Past, Present and Future (Elsevier, 2020), co-editor of Urban Form and Accessibility: Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts (Elsevier, 2020), and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transportation in a Net Zero World: Transitioning Towards Low Carbon Public Transport
Authors: Kathryn G. Logan, Astley Hastings, John D. Nelson
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96674-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96673-7Published: 08 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96676-8Published: 09 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96674-4Published: 07 April 2022
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 115
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Climate, general