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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Fundamentals of Sustainable Transport; 1.1 The ingredients of sustainable transport; 1.2 Towns, territories and sustainable transport; 1.3 Energy and sustainable transport; 1.4 The environment and sustainable transport; 1.4.1 "Sensitive" pollu...

2.1 Technology: from evolution to revolution2.2 Combustion engines; 2.3 Environmental and energy efficiency; 2.4 Hybridization and electrification; 2.4.1 Vehicles; 2.4.2 Batteries; 2.4.3 Constraints for recharging; 2.5 Energy solutions; 2.5.1 Fuels (refer to the glossary for alternative fuels); 2.5....

3.1 Transport corridors23.2 Transport mode, effective velocity and distance traveled; 3.3 Articulating modes and scales; 3.4 Transport scenarios; 3.4.1 Scenario 1: private transport; 3.4.2 Scenario 2: organized public transport; 3.4.3 Comparison of the two scenarios; 3.5 The transport of goods; 3.6...

4.6 Urban mobility of people, example of multimodality4.7 Intercity mobility of people; 4.8 Logistics: the mobility vector of merchandise; 4.9 The re-appropriation of urban logistics; 4.10 Intercity logistics: squaring the circle?; 4.11 Paradoxes and mirrors of sustainable mobility; Chapter 5 Innova...

5.2.2 Other fast charging5.2.3 Toward electric motorways?; 5.2.4 Other energy solutions; 5.3 Transportation systems and architecture; 5.4 Intelligent transport systems (ITS); 5.4.1 Several European projects on intelligent transport; 5.4.2 Linking of systemic layers of intelligence; 5.4.3 Toward an i...