Front Cover -- Sustainable Urban Transport -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Transport and Sustainability Editorial Board -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Sustainable Urban Transport - An Introduction -- Introduction -- Definitions of Sustainable Mobility -- Sustainable Mobility in the European Context -- Outline of the Book -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 The Economic Assessment of Health Benefits of Active Transport -- Introduction -- Health Benefits' Assessment of Active Transport -- Benefits and Costs of Active Transport -- Magnitude of the Health Effects of Active Transport -- Inclusion of Health Benefits in Active Transport Appraisal -- The WHO Health Economic Assessment (HEAT) Method -- Assessing the Health Benefits of Walking in the City of Viana do Castelo -- Transport, Health and Mobility Policies -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Results: Health Benefits of Walking for Alternative Scenarios -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Mode Decisions and Context Change - What About the Attitudes? A Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- Mode Choice Decisions -- Situational Factors -- Personal Factors -- Theory of Planned Behaviour and Requirements, Opportunities, Abilities -- Attitudes and Mode Choice -- Definition of Attitudes in Psychology -- Implementation and Operationalisation of Attitudes in Mobility Research -- Attitude Change -- Theory of Cognitive Dissonance -- Habits, Key Events and Mode Choice -- Discussion, Conclusion and Further Research -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 4 The Influence of Parent's Perceptions and Residential Self-Selection to the Children's Travel Modes at Single Par... -- Introduction -- Data and Sample Profiles -- The Proposed Model Structure -- The Estimated Model Results -- The Interactions of Travel Patterns between Parents.

The Children Travel Patterns -- Parents' Perceptions and Satisfaction and Household Members' Travel Mode Choice -- Household Residential Self-Selection and Household Members' Travel Mode Choice -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 5 Children's Independent Mobility in Israel: Case Study of the Arab Population Group -- Introduction -- Background - The Israeli Arab Population -- Method -- Results -- The Six Licenses of Independent Mobility -- The Journey to and from School -- Non-School Travel and Activities -- Perception of Safety and Local Area -- The Influence of Different Factors on Independent Mobility -- Children's Range of Activities -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Estimation Results Of the Logistic and Linear Regression for the Six Licenses -- Chapter 6 The Malta Bus Service Reform: Implications for Policy from a 'Natural Experiment' of Attitudes towards Bus Servic... -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Bus Use -- Service Quality -- Modal Shift -- Bus Service Reforms -- Malta: An Overview -- Land Transport Policy in Malta -- The Need for a Bus Reform in the Local Policy Context -- The Malta Bus Reform -- Research Methodology -- Population Sample and Data Collection -- The Research Approach -- The Questions -- Results -- Geo-Demographic Characteristics -- Mode Choice -- The Quality of the Bus Service -- Future Use of the Bus Service -- Discussion and Implications for Policy -- Conclusion and Future Work -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 7 Further Research into Using Geographic Principles to Analyze Public Transportation in the USA and Maximize the Co... -- Introduction -- Attitude Change towards Public Transportation -- A Deeper Look at Growing Industrial Sectors -- The Other Side of Using GIS in the United States -- Finding Choice Commuting -- Finding Hotspots.

A Look at Some Mapped Empirical Data -- The Importance of Census Tract Geography -- Future Planning Based on Economic Growth -- Transit Demand Fuels Innovation, as Well as Supply -- Finding the New: How Newer Residents are Mobile -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 Understanding Multimodal and Intermodal Mobility -- Introduction -- The Vision of Sustainable Mobility -- The Providers' Perspective: The Rise of Intermodal Mobility Networks - Based on Shared Mobility -- Car Sharing - The Backbone of Multimodal and Intermodal Mobility Networks -- Ride Sharing -- Bicycle Sharing -- Intermodal Mobility Networks of Shared, Individual and Public Transport -- The Users' Perspective on Intermodal Mobility -- The Policy Perspective: Planning Car-Independent Cities -- The Future of Sustainable Multi- and Intermodal Mobility -- References -- Chapter 9 Who Would Use Integrated Sustainable Mobility Services - And Why? -- Introduction -- State of the Research on Target Group Concepts and Travel Behaviour -- Methodology -- Results -- Validation and Interpretation -- Living Preferences -- Validation with Actual Behaviour -- Socio-Demographic Variables -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 10 Car Sharing Systems as a Sustainable Transport Policy: A Case Study from Lisbon, Portugal -- Introduction -- State of the Art on Car Sharing Impacts and Policies -- Worldwide Characterization of Car Sharing Systems -- Methodology -- Lisbon Case Study Characterization and Maximum Penetration Scenarios -- Energy and Environmental Impacts Methodology -- Main Variables Influencing the Economic Feasibility of Car Sharing -- Results -- Energy and Environmental Impacts of Car Sharing Technology Shift -- Total Car Sharing Impacts and Policy Implications of Large Scale Adoption -- Variables Influencing Car Sharing Economic Analysis -- Conclusion.

Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11 Analysis of Effects Resulting from Improved Vehicle Fuel Efficiency and Fuel Price Changes Applied to the Berlin... -- Introduction -- Fuel Efficiency and Fuel Prices -- From Driving Costs to Rebound Effects -- Scenarios and Simulation Setup -- Effects on Network Level -- General Remarks on Rebound Effects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- About the Authors -- Index.