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    Future Drive: Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
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    Future Drive: Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation

    By Daniel Sperling, Mark A. Delucchi, Patricia M. Davis and A. F. Burke

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    In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes currinitiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric propulsion as the key to a sustainable transportation and energy system. Other essential elements include the ideas that:

    •improving technology holds more promise than large-scale behavior modification
    •technology initiatives must be matched with regulatory and policy initiatives
    •governmintervention should be flexible and incentive-based, but should also embrace selective technology-forcing measures
    •more diversity and experimentation is needed with regard to vehicles and energy technologies Sperling evaluates past and currattempts to influence drivers and vehicle use, and articulates a clear and compelling vision of the future. He formulates a coherand specific set of principles, strategies, and policies for redirecting the United States and other countries onto a new sustainable pathway.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateFeb 22, 2013
    ISBN9781610910736
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    Future Drive: Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
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    Daniel Sperling

    Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS - Davis) at UC Davis. He is also co-director of UC Davis’ Fuel Cell Vehicle Center and specializes in transportation technology and environmental impacts and travel behavior. Dr. Sperling is recognized as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation policy. In the past 20 years, he has authored or co-authored over 140 technical papers and six books. Associate Editor of Transportation Research D (Environment)

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