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A research agenda for transport policy
Everyone has an opinion on transport: it significantly affects daily lives. This book highlights key transport opportunities and challenges, and identifies research requirements to inform policy discussion and support better societal outcomes. It does this by scanning across modes, continents, technologies and socio-economic settings, looking for common threads, points of difference and opportunities to make a difference. The book should appeal to prospective post-graduate students, professionals in transport and related fields, and those interested in better places and good discussions.
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Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Transport
Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. The findings are applicable to most cities of the developed world, and to fields beyond transport planning.
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A handbook of transport economics
This text provides an up-to-date guide to the most recent and state-of-the-art advances in transport economics. It includes topics ranging from the theoretical foundations of travel demand to some of the most advanced applications and policy recommendations.
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The end of automobile dependence : how cities are moving beyond car-based planning
Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines.Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence.
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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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Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities
The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010. The five sections of this volume review the challenges facing urban transport internationally and in China. It considers approaches to policy formulation, the challenge of urban mobility and the development of green sustainable transportation, by reviewing best practice in objective setting, strategy analysis and policy selection, and comparing these with current practice in China. The authors examine passenger transport, and considers a number of current policy interventions in China and compare these with western experience with demand management and new vehicle technologies. Topics include 5D land-use transport model for a high density, rapidly growing city and Contextual requirements for electric vehicles in developed and developing countries. Finally freight and logistics is addressed, including the role of freight villages and milk run strategies, and challenges and policy recommendations for road freight in Shanghai.
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The transport debate
An introduction to the transport debate from two experts in the field, following members of the Smith family as they uncover a wide array of transport issues.
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Interstate
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the
Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an
account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and
communities as the urban expressways of the highway network
destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities.
Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts,
when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San
Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and
other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records
of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway
Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation
brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame
the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state
highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation
decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze
the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s,
especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
(ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund
dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking
trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the
surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement,
an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging,
and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through
the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway
activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to
restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar
lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised
edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid
research by two well-known scholars.
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