During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers. This timely text provides a framework for developing systems that move people and products efficiently while minimizing damage to the local and global environment. The book offers a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the problems surrounding current transportation systems: climate change, urban air pollution, diminishing petroleum reserves, safety issues, and congestion. It explores the full range of possible solutions, including applications of pricing, planning, policy, education, and technology. Numerous figures, tables, and examples are featured, with a primary focus on North America.

William R. Black, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has written numerous articles in the area of sustainable transportation and planning. Dr. Black was North American chairman of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Science Foundation Conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He served as coordinator of STAR, an NSF-funded thematic network on sustainable transport analysis and research, and as North American coordinator of STELLA, a thematic network on transatlantic sustainable transport research funded by the European Commission and the NSF. He has served on numerous Transportation Research Board (TRB) and National Research Council panels and committees. Dr. Black has been recognized for his contributions to sustainable transportation by the Chinese Institute for Transportation.