Citation

Rosqvist LS. World Transp. Policy Pract. 2009; 15(3): 54-55.

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(Copyright © 2009, Eco-Logica)

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Abstract

The presented article should ideally be either outdated or permeate planning and decisions made. Sadly neither of this is true. Definitely not in Sweden but I believe not elsewhere either. We still see little of actual decisions and budget distributions that reflect any will to seriously produce a change towards a more sustainable transport sector. Despite many scientists and researchers stating paradigm shifts (e.g. Banister on The sustainable mobility paradigm, in Transportation Research 2008) and lots of more hard facts on the issues brought up in the article from 1996.

Even though some of the things we wrote in 1996 would have been put in a slightly different way if it was written today the basic idea would probably be more or less the same. In some ways the last years of awakening and concerns about climate changes, urban redevelopment and rising fuel prices makes it even more relevant today than back then when even this kind of concerns was ahead of its time.