| spelling |
oapen-20.500.12657-242522024-03-22T19:23:20Z Experimenting for Sustainable Transport Hoogma, Remco Kemp, Rene Schot, Johan Truffer, Bernhard niche development strategic management organized car sharing electric vehicles hybrid thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way. 2019-11-21 14:15:14 2020-04-01T09:51:46Z 2020-04-01T09:51:46Z 2002 book 1005879 OCN: 1135853702 9780415271165;9780415271172;9781134488223;9781134488216;9781134488179 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24252 eng Transport, Development and Sustainability Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1005879.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134488223 Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9780203994061 10.4324/9780203994061 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780415271165;9780415271172;9781134488223;9781134488216;9781134488179 open access
|
| description |
Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.
|
