Transport and Ethics

P̀rofessor van Wee draws on extensive research and nearly three decades of professional experience to shine a welcome spotlight on a neglected yet critical area of transportation research and practice: the role of ethics in the ex ante evaluation of infrastructure projects and transportation policies. Aiming more to raise questions and provoke thought than to provide answers, his balanced and systematic treatment of the subject makes the book an invaluable resource -- one which should be on the shelves and (more importantly) in the minds of every transportation policymaker, planner, and modeler.' --Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis, USA. T̀his book on transport ethics fills a clear gap in the literature. Many Researchers and practitioners in the transport field are aware that transport policies have important ethical dimensions, but these have not been systematically explored in the literature. Bert van Wee did a great job by bringing transport and ethics together. His decision to focus on ex ante evaluations of transport policies works out very well, since it enables him to achieve considerable depth on a theme that might otherwise be too broad.'--Piet Rietve