Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World

1. Scenario Perspectives

   1. European Innovations in Multi-modal Assessment: How Will They Support and Enhance the Public Policy Process?

      • John Nellthorp

      Pages 313-332

2. Back Matter

   Pages 333-346

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Our world is continuously changing as new technologies are developed, demographic patterns evolve and new social and political configurations emerge. However, most people would agree that, not unlike the time of the Industrial Revolution, the rate of change has accelerated over the last few decades. It is certainly the case of many economic activities, where the trend towards globalization, supported by a faster diffusion of knowledge and information, economies of scale, the opening of borders and improved transport networks, has induced a spatial redistribution of production and ownership. Until recently, the concomitant economic growth eased the way towards the necessary reorganization, but, at the same time, created additional environmental and transport problems. This phenomenon is pervasive all around the globe, but it particularly affects the European continent, which is still fragmented by administrative, cultural and linguistic differences, national boundaries and rivalries. In this context, the slow, but persistent drive towards market integration and deregulation makes Europe an extraordinary laboratory for politicians, economic researchers and especially for transport analysts.

• Freight Transport
• Scenarios
• Transport Developments
• Transport Innovations
• Travel Behaviour
• development
• innovation
• logistics
• mobility
• political economy
• public policy
• transport
• transport policy
• transportation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Groupe Transport et Mobilité (GTM), Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), Mons, Belgium

  Michel Beuthe

• JP-Transplan Ltd, Vantaa, Finland

  Veli Himanen

• Department of Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Bologna(BO), Italy

  Aura Reggiani

• Department of Law, University of Lecce, Lecce(LE), Italy

  Luca Zamparini

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