Abstract

Stephan Rammler The transport development of the future is characterised by strong growth. The drivers are population and prosperity growth as well as an international division of labour. Urbanisation makes these increases particularly dramatic, as the growing volumes of traffic have less space available and the compact concentration of traffic means that more and more people are affected by harmful local traffic emissions. The fossil dependency of global transport is the key cause of local harmful emissions as well as the growing emissions of greenhouse gases and the ongoing geopolitical conflicts due to resource protection strategies of industrialised nations worldwide. Finally, the consumption of non-fuel-related resources is a problematic issue due to the increasing material intensity of mobility products: M ...

Authors

Rammler, Stephan

Fields of research

Mobility and urbanity