Sustainable urban mobility has entered a phase where implementation capacity matters as much as technical design. While cities broadly agree on the direction, policy ambitions often outpace real-world outcomes due to institutional fragmentation, limited capacity, funding constraints, political turnover, and stakeholder resistance. At the same time, new pressures are intensifying-climate change is disrupting mobility conditions, tourism hubs face seasonal demand shocks, and digitalization is reshaping user expectations while raising new governance challenges around data and platforms. These dynamics call for a policy- and resilience-centered approach that treats mobility as a socio-technical system, aligning infrastructure and services with behavioral dynamics, equity, and governance while embedding resilience as a core principle in planning and operations. Policy, Resilience, and System Innovation in Sustainable Urban Mobility critically examines the foundations of sustainable mobility transitions through the lenses of policy capability, resilience-by-design, and system innovation. It emphasizes the integration of infrastructure, services, data, and human behavior within real-world constraints. This book provides readers with conceptual frameworks, empirical insights, and practical analytical tools to support the design and implementation of mobility systems that remain equitable, adaptable, and effective as cities confront climate pressures, demand volatility, and rapid technological. Covering topics such as low-carbon transport systems, mobility-as-a-service, and the 15-minute city model, this book is a fundamental academic resource for graduate and doctoral students, public authorities, metropolitan agencies, consultants, policymakers, and more.
Gülhan, Görkem: - Görkem Gülhan graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He completed his master's degree at Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He completed his PhD at Pamukkale University, Department of Civil Engineering, specialising in transport planning. His research interests focus on transport master plans, accessibility and transport planning. Apart from transport, he is interested in urban design, urban sociology, numerical methods in planning. He has publications in many national and international indexes. He is currently working as an associate professor at Pamukkale University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Polat, Olcay: - Olcay Polat received his Industrial Engineering PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) with the scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2013. He has been working as Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Pamukkale University (Turkey). He has a special interest in supply chain management, logistics and transportation optimization, production management and risk management. He has been published more that 100 papers in respected journals, conference proceedings and books.
