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Sustainable passenger transport: Back to Brundtland
Highlights Present definitions of sustainable passenger transport give poor policy guidance. We redefine sustainable passenger transport by going back to the Brundtland Report. We suggest an assessment method based on four equally important main dimensions. We suggest indicators and assign threshold values for each main dimension. We show how 130 countries currently compare to some of the threshold values.
Abstract We argue that there is no clear definition of the concept sustainable passenger transport to help guide politicians in solving challenges at the global or regional level. Rather, the use of the concept has to an increasing extent reflected socially desirable attributes of local- and project-level problems, but these ignore the global challenges the concept was meant to solve. Going back to the Brundtland Report, we redefine the concept of ‘sustainable passenger transport’ and suggest an assessment method based on four equally important, main dimensions: safeguarding long-term ecological sustainability, satisfying basic transport needs, and promoting intra- and intergenerational equity. We also define indicators and threshold values that have to be met for each of these dimensions and then illustrate how to achieve sustainable passenger transport.
Sustainable passenger transport: Back to Brundtland
Highlights Present definitions of sustainable passenger transport give poor policy guidance. We redefine sustainable passenger transport by going back to the Brundtland Report. We suggest an assessment method based on four equally important main dimensions. We suggest indicators and assign threshold values for each main dimension. We show how 130 countries currently compare to some of the threshold values.
Abstract We argue that there is no clear definition of the concept sustainable passenger transport to help guide politicians in solving challenges at the global or regional level. Rather, the use of the concept has to an increasing extent reflected socially desirable attributes of local- and project-level problems, but these ignore the global challenges the concept was meant to solve. Going back to the Brundtland Report, we redefine the concept of ‘sustainable passenger transport’ and suggest an assessment method based on four equally important, main dimensions: safeguarding long-term ecological sustainability, satisfying basic transport needs, and promoting intra- and intergenerational equity. We also define indicators and threshold values that have to be met for each of these dimensions and then illustrate how to achieve sustainable passenger transport.
Sustainable passenger transport: Back to Brundtland
Holden, Erling (author) / Linnerud, Kristin (author) / Banister, David (author)
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice ; 54 ; 67-77
2013-07-18
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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