Nancy Vandycke - Sustainable Mobility in a Fast-Changing World: From Concept to Action

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Sustainable Mobility in a Fast-Changing World: From Concept to Action would have never been possible without the incredible support of Samuel Leefor valuable contributions to the drafting of most chapters, Josephine Njoki Irungu (research assistance), and Chitra Archot (editorial consultant).

This book was written to raise the visibility of the work of the Sustainable Mobility for All Partnership, a complement to reach a wider audience beyond the traditional public policy realm like academia and transport practitioners. We remain grateful to the Partnership and its Steering Committee for their encouragement in bringing this project to publication. Special thanks are extended to Binyam Reja (World Bank), Nicolas Beaumont (Michelin), Maruxa Cardama (SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport), Benjamin Jeromin (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), Anne Joselin (UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Sheila Watson (FIA Foundation), Alana Dave (International Transport Workers Federation), Daniel Moser (Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative), Clotilde Rossi Di Schio (Sustainable Energy for All), Ben Hartley (Sustainable Energy for All), Francesco Dionori (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), Thomas Deloison (World Business Council for Sustainable Development), and Mohammed Alsayed (Islamic Development Bank). Without the financial support of the Michelin Foundation, the World Bank, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and the German Cooperation Deutsche Zusammenarbeit, the Partnership and its work would have never materialized. The support of these individuals and funding organizations worked seamlessly in tandem to support the vision of this book, and the vision of sustainable mobility.

The ideas expressed in this book do not represent the views of the individual member organizations of the Partnership, or the organizations the authors belong to. Many elements of the book were discussed as background material in several international conferences and fora. The authors used several early chapters of the book as course material for a World Bank Open Learning Campus knowledge exchange course titled Sustainable Mobility requires a New Approach Today. The production of this online course benefited from financial support from the Open Learning Campus managed Trust Fund from the Republic of Korea, Michelin Foundation, the World Bank, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and the German Cooperation Deutsche Zusammenarbeit. We also owe our thanks to the participants of this course, who provided enthusiasm and formed a useful space for fine-tuning the communication of ideas and concepts in this book. Our thanks go also to Nicolas Beaumont, Young Tae Kim, Zeph Nhleko, Susanna Zammataro, Claire-Marie Bernard, Jan Hoffman, Frida Youssef, Irena Zubcevic, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Jamal Saghir, Gurpreet Singh Sehmi, Mary Ngaratoki Fabian, Emiye Deneke, Javier Morales Sarriera, Holly Krambeck, Justin Coetzee, and Xavier Espinet who generously contributed their time to the development of the online course, much of which also doubled as feedback for this book.