Policy approaches for decoupling transport from economic growth

1 1 The necessity of decoupling freight transport from economic growth 2 2 General approaches for decoupling 3 2.1 Key factors for decoupling 3 2.2 Basic strategies for decoupling 4 2.3 Basic policy orientations 4 3 Dematerialisation of the economy 5 3.1 Past trends 5 3.2 Key strategies for Dematerialisation 5 3.3 Policies for Dematerialisation 6 3.4 Assessing the Potential for Dematerialisation 7 4 The spatial dimension: countervailing trends 8 4.1 “Glocalization” trends and the concept of territorialisation 8 4.2 Material Production in the Information Society 10 4.3 The impact of logistics 11 5 Reducing the spatial range of material flows 13 5.1 Strengthening regional consumer markets 13 5.2 Promoting regional production networks 14 5.3 Localising material flows in large companies 14 5.4 Slowing down deterritorialisation 15 5.5 Decoupling potential 16 6 Consequences for transport policies 17 7 References 19