Journal article
Alternative futures of transport
Foresight, Vol.5(1), pp.34-43
2003
Abstract
Based on the experience of transport policy and scenario planning in South-East Queensland, this essay explores the alternative futures of transport. It does so by first exploring the weight of lock-ins that make creating new futures nearly impossible. Next, the ways that the future can be used to transform policy are explored. Three futures methods are used to articulate the alternative futures of transport. These are the futures triangle (the push, pull and weight of the future); scenarios (triple bottom line to Gaia, industrial realism to likely collapse, global technologization leading to artificial societies, and localization leading to a return of the past) and causal layered analysis. The essay concludes with a feminist unpacking of transportation futures.
Details
- Title
- Alternative futures of transport
- Authors
- Sohail Inayatullah (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Foresight, Vol.5(1), pp.34-43
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2003
- DOI
- 10.1108/14636680310471271
- ISSN
- 1463-6689
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448886202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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