| Description |
1 online resource (x, 430 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The definitions : sustainability -- 2. The definitions : transport -- 3. The definitions : planning -- 4. The trends : travel and haulage -- 5. Fuel consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) -- 6. Location and land use -- 7. The problems : congestion -- 8. The problems : interchanging and trans-shipment -- 9. The problems : the space budget -- 10. Transport costs -- 11. Sensing success and failure -- 12. Managing the environmental impacts -- 13. Mobility and accessibility -- 14. Controlling costs -- 15. Supporting the economy -- 16. Road vehicle design -- 17. Public transport -- 18. Tolls, taxes and tariffs : fares, fines and fees -- 19. Transport demand prediction -- 20. The need for a new methodology to estimate travel demand -- 21. Planning sustainable transport : the agenda. |
| Summary |
This text offers a thoughtful critique of existing methodology and policy, raising issues, providing facts, explaining linkages and stimulating debate. Transport choices must be changed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change but that may only be done if we understand how the whole transport system works. Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how complex transport systems work. Straightforward choices are never made between one transport mode and another; door-to-door movements of both people and freight use combinations of different modes of transport. This book offers a cross-disciplinary overview of transport systems and the ways in which they interact with urban and regional planning decisions and environmental issues. It offers a thoughtful critique of existing methodology and policy, raising issues, providing facts, explaining linkages and, particularly, stimulating debate. The book methodically explores the definitions, trends, problems, objectives and policies of transport planning. In particular the author looks at land use as a major determinant of the nature and extent of the demand for transport, concluding that the management of land use has to be a key element of any sustainable transport policy. Planning Sustainable Transport will be essential reading for today's transport specialists, planners and property developers. It will also be useful to postgraduate students in planning and related disciplines. Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how complex transport systems work. Straightforward choices are never made between one transport mode and another; door-to-door movements of both people and freight use combinations of different modes of transport. This book offers a cross-disciplinary overview of transport systems and the ways in which they interact with urban and regional planning decisions and environmental issues. It offers a thoughtful critique of existing methodology and policy, raising issues, providing facts, explaining linkages and, particularly, stimulating debate. The book methodically explores the definitions, trends, problems, objectives and policies of transport planning. In particular the author looks at land use as a major determinant of the nature and extent of the demand for transport, concluding that the management of land use has to be a key element of any sustainable transport policy. Planning Sustainable Transport will be essential reading for today's transport specialists, planners and property developers. It will also be useful to postgraduate students in planning and related disciplines. |
| Subject |
Transportation -- Planning.
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Transportation -- Environmental aspects.
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Transportation and state.
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Transport -- Planification. |
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Transport -- Politique gouvernementale. |
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Transport -- Aspect de l'environnement. |
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Transportation and state |
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Transportation -- Environmental aspects |
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Transportation -- Planning |
| Other Form: |
9781849713900 9781849713917 |
| ISBN |
9780203436066 (e-book ; PDF) |
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0203436067 (e-book ; PDF) |
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9781136754159 |
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1136754156 |
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(hardback ; alk. paper) alk. paper) |
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