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I have read this book (Givoni, Banister 2013) considering two target audiences – firstly, university students and secondly, practitioners in consulting companies and public agencies tasked with trying to develop plans and policies. I come to different conclusions for each audience. Then, I considered a third audience: would elected officials and other important decision makers read such a book? The book is in two parts. The first part is designed to focus on an array of key elements needed to understand the issues involved in reducing carbon use substantially. It is a compilation of chapters by highly knowledgeable authors: Eda Beyazit, Julia Markovich, James Macmillen, Robin Hickman, Malek Al-Chalabi, Justin Bishop, Martino Tran, Nihan Akyelken, Jian Liu, Andre Neves. The second part discusses possible paths forward in light of all of these issues, with chapters by the editors plus Tim Schwanen and James Macmillen. The first part of this book is admirable in its comprehensive coverage, including the topics of mobility cultures, accessibility and equity, governance and policy, urbanization and the future, unpacking travel behavior, technology, future energy mix, finance and investment, supply chains, the environment, and finally, mobility as a complex system. I have minor quibbles, at most, with the accuracy and relevance of the content. The book would be an extremely good primer for university students who are relatively new to the field. It makes quite clear how wide the topic really is and how serious the interactions and unintended consequences can be when any particular aspect of the transport system is changed. But, for seasoned practitioners, it is largely preaching to the choir. As someone who has spent a large part of his career in consulting, I have found most of my colleagues who have been working for a few years to be quite well read. Exceptions are specialists who might need a briefing on some subtopics, like transit experts who want to learn more about logistics’ impact on the environment, and vice versa. Many have even been quite involved in research, albeit usually focused upon a specific target nation or region, due to their professional responsibilities. This brings me to the one shortcoming of the book; it mostly references academic authors and thus posits research questions that have actually been explored in some detail in numerous specific instances. These results simply do not always make it into academic journals or proceedings. To give one important example: Flyvbjerg et al. (2003, 2004) major papers about infrastructure costs are referenced. They claimed that ex-post studies are not usually performed, and it may have been true in B O O K R EV IE W TRANSPORT

BOOK ‘MOVING TOWARDS LOW CARBON MOBILITY’ REVIEW