Transport is the key sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are difficult to reduce. The book's original content and presentation draws on contemporary culture to demonstrate the need for a wider and more transparent debate on future travel behaviours and lifestyles, acceptability and implementability, and the potential for using different means to sell a different but attractive future.

1. Transport, Climate Change and the City 2. Futures, Scenarios and Strategic Conversations 3. Ambitions Towards Sustainable Mobility (London) 4. Affluent Rurality and Car Dependence (Oxfordshire) 5. Breaking the Projected Trend 5. Breaking the Projected Trend (Delhi) 6. Building a New World 7. Urban Dispersal and High Motorisation (Auckland) 8. Sustainable Transport and the City

Robin Hickman is a Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, and Visiting Research Associate at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, UK.

David Banister is Professor of Transport Studies and Director of the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, UK.