Gridlock

<p>Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies. In <i>Gridlock: Congested Cities Contested Policies Unsustainable Mobility </i>transport consultant John C. Sutton explores how two competing discourses in transport policy and planning practice – convivial and competitive ideologies – lead to contradictory solutions and a gridlock in policy as well as on transport systems.</p><p>Gridlock examines current transport and mobility in a geographical social political-economy and technological context. The challenges of rising congestion are highlighted through case studies from the UK the USA and OECD countries. Sutton offers readers a vision of a sustainable mobility future through the concept of mobility management combining mobile communication and information technology with logistics to match travel demand to the capacity of transport systems.</p><p>Essential reading for transport professionals and students of transportation planning and policy <i>Gridlock </i>offers a unique manifesto for sustainable mobility settlement addressing the pressing problems of growing populations and congestion while looking ahead to a more sustainable future.</p>