The VREF, after ten years of contribution to the development of sustainable transportation, summarize their activities and close collaboration with their initiated CoEs through a book.
The VREF is focusing on one coherent programme: Future Urban Transport - How to deal with complexity (FUT). The programme emerged in a context of increasingly-rapid urbanization and heavy motorization of cities, and the intention was to contribute to the development of sustainable transportation systems that also meet the needs of the entire population of a city - including those with the least resources. Solutions at the system level are needed, because a number of components - including land use, city planning, transport system choices and how decisions are made - need to be addressed simultaneously to develop sustainable transportation systems. Thus far there are eight Centres of Excellence (CoE) established globally, representing a global infrastructure of more than 100 researchers. All CoEs work in close collaboration with traffic and city planners, transport operators, decision makers and interest groups. This book is a progress report on that work, highlighting examples of findings from this research effort.