Cities and Mobility & Transportation: Towards the next generation of urban mobility - Paperback

by Joan Enric Ricart Costa (Author), Ana Duch T-Figueras (Author), Pascual Berrone (Author)

Mobility is a key dimension of cities. As urbanization accelerates, the demand for mobility and transportation escalates. This booming demand stresses the existing urban transportation systems and infrastructures, intensifies widespread congestion and traffic gridlock, increases road accidents, and augments CO2 emissions and air and noise pollution, which is starting to cause serious health concerns.How will our current transport systems cope with this rising demand for mobility in cities? How can city planners and mayors around the world come up with strategies and solutions that enhance sustainable and integrated urban transportation systems? What is the future of urban mobility?This volume is part of a book series called "IESE Cities in Motion: International urban best practices."Cities and Mobility & Transportation focuses on how to address the mobility challenge in cities. It aims to be: - an insightful analysis of the main urban mobility and transportation trends and challenges- a collection of international best practices on sustainable urban mobility- an instrument to help city managers and policymakers solve the urban mobility challenge and improve accessibility in cities for the benefit of all.

Author Biography

Pascual Berrone (BA, B.Sc., Ph.D.) is associate professor of strategic management and holder of the Chair of Sustainability and Business Strategy Schneider Electric at IESE Business School. He is a multi-award-winning researcher whose work on sustainable innovation, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility has been published in over a dozen international journals. Professor Berrone is Associate Editor of research outlet Organization & Environment and founder of the "Strategic Madrid Group," an initiative that gathers world-class scholars and practitioners around strategic issues. He is also the academic co-director of the research platform IESE Cities in Motion. Joan E. Ricart, Fellow of the SMS and EURAM, is the Carl Schrøder Professor of Strategic Management and Chairman of the Strategic Management Department at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He was Director of the Doctoral Program (1995-2006), Associate Dean for Research (2001-2006), and Associate Director for Faculty and Research (2006-2014). He is also Vice-president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He was the Founding president of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and President of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He was the academic director of the EIASM and member of the research committee of the EFMD. He has published several books and articles in leading journals as Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Econometrica or Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is co-academic director of IESE Cities in Motion and academic director of the UN center of excellence of PPP for Cities. His current work focuses on cities, business models, and offshoring. Ana Isabel Duch is a research assistant at IESE Business School. She holds a Master's in International Relations from the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and a Bachelor's in Business Management and Administration from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Previously to IESE, she has worked in research and consultancy projects related to socio-economic development and international trade at the European Commission (DG Trade), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and at ACCIÓ Berlin (Government of Catalonia). Her areas of research interest include sustainable development, global and local governance, and international political economy.