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Mass Motorization and Mass Transit
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became
the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more
displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The
book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective
framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the
difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil
supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. No other book
offers as comprehensive a history of mass transit, mass motorization, highway
development, and suburbanization or provides as penetrating an analysis of the
historical differences between motorization in the United States and that of other
advanced industrial nations.
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The privatisation and nationalisation of European roads : success and failure in public-private partnerships
This distinctive and timely book examines the current state and trends in the ownership, management and financing of European high capacity roads. Offering an analysis of three pioneer countries in road privatization, Spain, France and Italy, from their origins to their recent developments, it evaluates how the design of privatisation policies may lead to their success or failure. Describing the trend in favouring public-private collaboration and road charging, Professor Daniel Albalate presents the theoretical framework of road privatisation and its relevant design issues. Exhaustively studying the national experiences in historical perspective, he aims at providing lessons on the good, the bad and the ugly of road privatisation. As a result, this excellent study shows the increasing role of private financing and ownership in Europe, a trend mainly explained by fiscal motivations and the thrust of the European Commission. Presenting an evaluation of the critical elements of the contractual and regulatory design of the public-private collaboration that determines the likelihood of success and failure, this unique book will be of special interest to academics, graduate students and policy makers interested in the public provision and financing of road infrastructure, and public finance more generally. --Publisher description.
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Partially Connected and Automated Traffic Operations in Road Transportation
About 64% of global oil consumption and 23% of the worldwide CO2 emissions are attributed to transportation [1]. [...]every year, congestion accounts for billions of dollars due to wasted time and fuel consumption, and the World Health Organization (WHO) [2] estimated that 1.3 million people died on roads in 2015. Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) hold the potential to improve the current operational safety and efficiency of the transportation system by relieving drivers from some or all the driving tasks and enabling the cooperation among vehicles, between vehicles, and roadway infrastructure or other road users. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves both the travel time and fuel economy significantly on a typical urban road with successive signalized intersections. 3. Md Abdus Samad Kamal Mohsen Ramezani Guoyuan Wu Claudio Roncoli Jackeline Rios-Torres Olivier Orfila [1] The World Bank, \"Understanding poverty: transport,\" . https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/transport [2] WHO, \"Global status report on road safety,\" 2018. https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2018/en/ [3] O. Orfila, D. Gruyer, K. Hamdi, S. Glaser, \"Safe and ecological speed profile planning algorithm for autonomous vehicles using a parametric multiobjective optimization procedure,\" International Journal ofAutomotive Engineering, vol. 10 no. 1, pp. 26-33, DOI: 10.20485/jsaeijae.10.1_26, 2019.
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Divided Highways
InDivided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators.
This is a story of America's hopes for its future life and the realities of its present condition. It is an engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape-and the daily lives of Americans. In this updated edition ofDivided Highways, Lewis brings his story of the Interstate system up to date, concluding with Boston's troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.
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Last Exit: Privatization and Deregulation of the U.S. Transportation System
In Last Exit Clifford Winston reminds us that transportation services and infrastructure in the United States were originally introduced by private firms. The case for subsequent public ownership and management of the system was weak, in his view, and here he assesses the case for privatization and deregulation to greatly improve Americans' satisfaction with their transportation systems.
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Fighting Traffic
Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as \"jaywalkers.\" In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as \"road hogs\" or \"speed demons\" and cars as \"juggernauts\" or \"death cars.\" He considers the perspectives of all users--pedestrians, police (who had to become \"traffic cops\"), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for \"justice.\" Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of \"efficiency.\" Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking \"freedom\"--a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.Peter D. Norton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?
Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the \"three revolutions\" in automotive transportation, as well as the current work of committed people advocating for a different way forward, James Wilt imagines what public transit should look like in order to be green and equitable. Wilt considers environment and climate change, economic and racial inequality, urban density, accessibility and safety, work and labour unions, privacy and control of personal data, as well as the importance of public and democratic decision-making.
Based on interviews with more than forty experts, including community activists, academics, transit planners, authors, and journalists, Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? explores our ability to exert power over how cities are built and for whom.
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Routes of Compromise
InRoutes of CompromiseMichael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local, national, and transnational levels, helped determine how Mexico would build and finance its roadways.While Veracruz offered a radical model for regional construction that empowered agrarian communities, national consensus would solidify around policies championed by Nuevo León's political and commercial elites. Bess shows that no single political figure or central agency dominated the process of determining Mexico's road-building policies. Instead, provincial road-building efforts highlight the contingent nature of power and state formation in midcentury Mexico.
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Two billion cars : driving toward sustainability
At present, there are roughly a billion cars in the world. Yet within twenty years, the number will double to 2 billion, largely a consequence of China’s and India’s explosive growth. Given that greenhouse gases are already creating havoc with our climate and that violent conflict in unstable oil-rich nations is on the rise, does this mean that matters will only get worse, or are there hopeful signs that effective, realistic solutions can be found? In Two Billion Cars, through a concise history of America’s love affair with cars and an overview of the global auto industry, leading transportation experts Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon explain how we arrived at this state, and what we can do about it. Sperling and Gordon outline the problem in full and assign blame squarely where it belongs--on the auto-industry, short-sighted government policies, and consumers. They consider the issue from all angles and take up such topics as getting beyond the gas-guzzler monoculture, breaking Detroit’s hold on energy and climate policy, the search for low-carbon fuels, California’s pioneering role, and more. But they are not Cassandras. Promising advances in both transportation technology and fuel efficiency together with shifts in traveler behavior, they suggest, offer us a way out of our predicament. Ultimately, the authors contend that the two places that have the most troublesome emissions problems--California and China--are the most likely to become world leaders on these issues. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s enlightened embrace of eco-friendly fuel policies, which he discusses in the foreword to Two Billion Cars, and China’s forthright recognition that it needs far-reaching environmental and energy policies, suggest that if they can tackle the issue effectively and honestly, then there really is reason for hope.
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