Circular and Decarbonized Vehicle and Transport Solutions

Exploring how mobility is at the heart of pressing environmental and social challenges, this insightful book analyses sustainability issues of the European transportation system. Expert contributors outline how transport systems and the use of cars, trains and ferries, bicycles and delivery robots can become both more circular and sustainable.Leading international researchers combine empirical data, case studies and modelling approaches to explore behavioural changes, battery technologies, digital product passports and circular product design. Chapters also assess cross-modal applications in road, rail, maritime, cycling and last-mile freight systems. The book emphasises how technological innovation alone is not enough, as sustainable mobility also requires new business models, smarter regulations, improved data infrastructures and greater attention to sustainability impacts along global value chains. It argues that only by addressing environmental, economic and social dimensions together, through context-sensitive methods and active stakeholder engagement, can mobility operate within planetary boundaries.Interdisciplinary and forward-looking, this book is essential reading for scholars of business, innovation and transport, and provides vital guidance for policymakers and industry leaders steering the transition to sustainable mobility.