Book Review: Travel Sickness: The Need for a Sustainable Transport Policy for Britain

Assessment of transport quality of life as an alternative transport appraisal technique

“…This concept is not new, as it was first discussed as a means of assessing, appraising and informing decision-making about transport schemes, policies and programmes (Buchan, 1992). Buchan's ideas were not developed because the policies promoted in the book were seen to be too strong an inclination towards labour philosophies to attract cross-party interest (Hart, 1993). More recently QoL studies have been conducted to examine the impacts of transport pricing and transport policy (de Groot and Steg, 2006a,b).…”