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This chapter investigates the role that mobility management plays in an efficient transport system. It describes the basic principles that a transport system must reflect to optimize efficiency and maximize benefits, identifies existing transport market distortions, and describes reforms that can correct these distortions. This analysis indicates that many common transport policies and planning practices result in economically excessive motor vehicle travel, which is particularly harmful to lower income people and economies. Mobility management strategies include improvements to alternative modes, more efficient transport pricing, and more neutral planning practices. These strategies tend to increase transport system efficiency, and help achieve social equity objectives by improving affordable transport options. Mobility management can provide multiple economic, social and environmental benefits, and so helps create truly sustainable transport systems. This has important implications for developing countries which are still establishing their planning policies and practices.
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Litman, T. (2012). Mobility Management Solutions to Transport Problems Around the World. In: Zachariadis, T. (eds) Cars and Carbon. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2123-4_14
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