Achieving sustainable mobility: everyday and leisure-time travel in the EU

Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy.

There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient conventional transport technologies, the promotion of efficient and affordable public transport systems and the encouragement of environmental awareness.

Such policies have so often been presented as prerequisites for sustainable mobility that they are now taken for granted.

But are any of these policies really successful? To what extent do they actually contribute (or fail to contribute) to sustainable mobility?

Why do some policies succeed and others fail?