Toward a Sustainable Transportation Future

Dear Colleagues,

Efforts to make transportation more sustainable are ongoing. Unfortunately, the concept of sustainable transportation is so ambiguous that almost any effort to lessen our reliance on private vehicles which directly consume fossil fuels and so emit greenhouse gases into our atmosphere are noteworthy. While efforts to more rigorously conceptualize sustainable transportation are important theoretically, the need to apply our, as of yet, incomplete definition of sustainability in order to help transition to alternative modes of transportation which are both economically viable and environmentally friendly are more pressing. To that end, this Special Issue focuses on efforts in countries around the world to promote alternative modes of transportation or the alternative sources of revenue in the short term without jeopardizing the long-term economic solvency of public and private stakeholders. Some examples of such efforts are as follows:

• Manufacture of electric vehicles;
• Adoption of vehicle scrappage programs;
• Construction of public infrastructure for bus rapid transit or for light rail;
• Promotion of nonmotorized trip modes such as bicycle or pedestrian;
• Demand management schemes such as congestion pricing;
• New revenue sources such as corridor tolling or usage fees in lieu of old revenue sources such as excise taxes.

This list of examples is not exhaustive. Rather, it highlights the overarching objective to situate this Special Issue within the literature on sustainable transportation so that scholars may ultimately arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the strengths and the weaknesses of sustainability as a theoretical concept. Submissions which focus on particular case studies from different countries are encouraged.

Dr. Edmund J. Zolnik
Guest Editor

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• sustainable transportation
• demand management
• fiscal solvency