Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. The findings are applicable to most cities of the developed world, and to fields beyond transport planning.

Carey Curtis, Curtin University of Technology, Australia and Nicholas Low, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Sustainable Transport and Institutional Barriers; Chapter 3 The Irrationality of Path Dependence; Chapter 4; Chapter 5 How Organizations Shape Infrastructure; Chapter 6 How Organizations Shape Infrastructure; Chapter 7 Transport Plans in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth; Chapter 8 The Discourse of Roads; Chapter 9 The Discourse of Public Transport; Chapter 10 Stakeholder Groups; Chapter 11 Contemporary Mental Models; Chapter 12 Overcoming the Barriers;