 | Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability by Daniel Sperling
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.50 Written by scholars for the general public, the book explores our unsustainable car-centric culture and its consequences: oil dependency, traffic congestion, air pollution, and climate change. It includes a brief account about the successful Brazilian story (but considered just an outlier). The book emphasis is on low-carbon fuels and alternative vehicles. A must read. Just published. 2009
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 | Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington?
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $11.39 An excellent follow-up to "Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America." The benefits and the multiple barriers hindering the widespread use of this technology are discussed in detail, very comprehensive. A must read. April 2009
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 | Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America by Sherry Boschert
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $3.20 This book clearly demonstrates that today we could be enjoying the benefits of hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full electric vehicles, technologies that have been available for more than 10 years. Learn why these vehicles are not mainstream yet. Written for the general public this is another must read. 2006.
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 | $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better by Christopher Steiner
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $13.54 As cheap oil will become scarcer and gasoline prices climb, what-if scenarios are analyzed assuming gasoline prices starting at $4 a gallon all the way to $20, with increments of $2, and each of the nine chapters of the book corresponds to the expected consequences for each of these scenarios. Unfortunately, a few chapters are just wishful thinking. July 2009
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 | Sustainable Ethanol: Biofuels, Biorefineries, Cellulosic Biomass, Flex-fuel Vehicles, and Sustainable Farming for Energy Independence by Jeffrey Goettemoeller
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $3.00 Written for all audiences. This is an excellent analysis of the subject. The successful Brazilian story is presented. This is a book you should read before taking sides on the food versus biofuels controversy. 2007.
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 | Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective (Green Energy and Technology) by Lucas Reijnders
Buy new: $115.67 / Used from: $68.51 Another 2009 publication. Comprehensive but aimed for academics, students and practitioners.
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 | Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (Revised) (James A. Johnson Metro) by Anthony Downs
Buy new: $24.74 / Used from: $10.95 Very comprehensive treatise dealing with both transportation and land use (urban sprawl). This is the 2004 update of the 1992 classic. A must read. 2004
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 | The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry by Robert Cervero
Buy new: $33.66 / Used from: $30.38 Academic but good for all audiences. Presents the cases of Stockholm; Singapore; Curitiba, Brazil; Portland, Oregon; Vancouver, and other cities around the world. An excellent complement to "Two Billion Cars (2009 see above)" despite being published in 1998.
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 | Who Killed the Electric Car?
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.23 This DVD will let you understand why readily available solutions have not gone mainstream, and it will let you wonder why this happened. A must watch. 2006
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 | Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector
Buy new: $48.31 / Used from: $53.47 What experts from all over the world have to said. 2008.
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 | Sustainable Automobile Transport: Shaping Climate Change Policy (Esri Studies Series on the Environment) by Lisa Ryan
Buy new: $125.00 / Used from: $87.50 This book is about the environmental issues, the technologies and economic policies available for relieving traffic congestion and cutting on transport big contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. Is it feasible to achieve a efficient, equitable and sustainable road transport? 2007.
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 | Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $2.38 Good for all audiences. If the Apollo missions to the moon were possible, how come the US can not get rid of oil dependence. 2007.
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 | Making Choices about Hydrogen: Transport Issues for Developing Countries
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $15.45 The best sustainable option for transportation, is it really too far away in the future? Academic. 2008
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 | Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World by Andreas Schäfer
Buy new: $23.08 / Used from: $17.00 Coming soon, 2009.
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 | Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture by The Worldwatch Institute
Buy new: $74.88 / Used from: $49.99 Good for all audiences. Presents the opportunities and the risks. 2007.
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 | Driving Climate Change: Cutting Carbon from Transportation by Daniel Sperling
Buy new: $32.85 / Used from: $41.98 Written by scholars but accessible to the general public. 2006.
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 | The Economics of Urban Transportation by Kenneth Small
Buy new: $52.38 / Used from: $47.00 This is a transportation textbook, and discusses congestion prices and the existing implementations in Europe and Singapore. 2007.
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 | Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport
Buy new: $115.00 / Used from: $139.01 2008
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 | Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy by George A. Olah
Buy new: $33.96 / Used from: $20.00 Very comprehensive. 2006
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 | Fast Wheels Slow Traffic: Urban Transport Choices (Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development) by Charles L. Wright
Buy used from: $9.29 Good for all audiences. Presents in detail the case of Curitiba, Brazil. 1992.
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 | Achieving Sustainable Mobility (Transport and Mobility) by Holden
Buy new: $114.95 / Used from: $124.64 2007
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 | Unsustainable Transport: The Transport Crisis (Transport Development and Sustainability) by David Banister
Buy new: $64.08 / Used from: $59.78 2005
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 | Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing (TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, ECONOMICS AND POLICY Volume 9) by J.F. McDonald
Buy new: $179.00 / Used from: $160.70 Academic. 1999
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 | Transit Villages in the 21st Century by Michael Bernick
Buy new: $31.35 / Used from: $25.00 Good for all audiences. 1996
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 | The Elephant in the Bedroom: Automobile Dependence & Denial : Impacts on the Economy and Environment by Stanley I. Hart
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $15.00 An oldie but still worth the reading. Short but comprehensive. For all audiences. 1993
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 | Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment: Issues of Efficiency and Social Feasibility
Buy new: $140.00 / Used from: $189.55 The title speaks by itself. Academic. 1999
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 | Urban Transit : Operations, Planning and Economics by Vukan R. Vuchic
Buy new: $99.36 / Used from: $86.88 This is a technical book, but the best for the transit specialists. 2007.
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| The Economics of Road User Charges (World Bank) by Professor A.A. Walters
Buy used from: $12.53 This seminal work set the economic rationale for road congestion pricing (Singapore, London, Stockholm, Milan,...). Requires basic knowledge on economics. 1968
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 | Transport Economics by Kenneth J. Button
Buy new: $25.81 / Used from: $14.99 Academic. 1993
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