Towards Transport Net Zero

by Jon Shaw (Editor), Stephen Ison (Editor), Maria Attard (Editor)

Overview

Achieving Net Zero is a wicked problem that is not just a question of applying technological innovation to existing transport patterns and behaviours. It involves all three aspects of the environmental, social and economic sustainability triangle and any attempt to significantly reduce transport’s CO₂ emissions will involve major technological and behavioural changes – indeed, a fundamental rethink of existing expectations. Any approach needs also to be politically achievable, promoting opportunities for improving quality of life while not evading the issues at hand.

This 20^th volume in the Transport and Sustainability series focuses on Net Zero transport, providing a go-to source of information for policymakers, businesses, scholars and students alike. The contributors discuss the nature and scale of the issues associated with moving towards net zero transport, along with the opportunities for positive and transformational change. The chapters in Towards Transport Net Zero address the topic from a range of different perspectives including different transport modes, policy areas, social and demographic considerations and economic sectors.

The Transport and Sustainability series addresses the important nexus between transport and sustainability, containing volumes dealing with a wide range of issues relating to transport, its impact in economic, social and environmental spheres and its interaction with other policy sectors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837976942
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	10/13/2025
Series:	Transport and Sustainability , #20
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Jon Shaw is Professor of Transport Geography and Head of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Stephen Ison is Professor of Transport Policy within Leicester Castle Business School at De Montfort University, UK, and Honorary Professor of Transport Policy at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney, Australia.

Maria Attard is Professor of Transport Geography and Director of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Malta.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Towards transport net zero; Jon Shaw, Stephen Ison and Maria Attard
Chapter 2. Transport and climate change: Five major issues; Tim Ryley
Chapter 3. Walking for net zero; Yuting Zhang and Corinne Mulley
Chapter 4. The role of human-scale mobility in decarbonising travel; John Parkin
Chapter 5. Challenges to achieving net zero through transition to the electric car; Graham Parkhurst
Chapter 6. Opportunities and challenges in harnessing the net zero impacts of autonomous vehicles; Eda Beyazit
Chapter 7. Eight parking reforms to improve cities and cool the planet; Donald Shoup
Chapter 8. The role of flexible transport services in moving towards net zero and greater sustainability; Corinne Mulley and John D. Nelson
Chapter 9. Towards net zero railways for net zero transport; John Preston and Simon Blainey
Chapter 10. Flying towards net zero: Decarbonising aviation amid a climate crisis; Evangelia Pantelaki and Lucy Budd
Chapter 11. Maritime transport in a net zero economy; Jason Monios
Chapter 12. Modelling the decarbonisation and digitalisation transition in logistics systems; Jonathan Köhler, Clemens Brauer, and Lóránt Tavasszy
Chapter 13. Tourism and travel: The challenges of net zero; Luca Zamparini
Chapter 14. Urban transport in net zero cities; Maria Attard
Chapter 15. Towards low-carbon mobility in rapidly growing economies: Challenges and lessons from Latin America; Daniel Oviedo, Maria A. Wilches-Mogollon, and Natalia Villamizar Duarte
Chapter 16. Gender and the transition to net zero transport; Lucy Budd
Chapter 17. Ageing, transport and decarbonisation; Charles Musselwhite
Chapter 18. Public participation as a means of legitimising net zero transport: Challenges and opportunities; Claus Hedegaard Sørensen, Tom Rye, and Lisa Hansson
Chapter 19. COVID-19, pandemics and disruption; Corinne Mulley and Maria Attard