Transport planning and policy

With increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities.

The location of new housing development has become one of the most intractable controversies of modern times.

Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning.

Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related.

Travel by car invariably involves the use of a car parking space at the start and end of the journey, the provision of which impacts on travel demand and travel behaviour.

Asian transportation systems and services, as well as their usage, are fraught with challenges.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

With rapid development of China's economy in the past decades, there arises a great demand for a comprehensive report concerning the state of logistics development in China.

Weigh-in-motion (WIM) is a process of measuring the dynamic tire forces of a moving vehicle and estimating the corresponding tire loads of the static vehicle.

Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.

First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research.

Liner Ship Fleet Planning: Models and Algorithms systematically introduces the latest research on modeling and optimization for liner ship fleet planning with demand uncertainty.

The Global Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age is a ground-breaking exploration of the transformative impact of smart cities in today's urban landscape.

When originally published in 1975, (here re-issuing the 3rd edition of 1985), this was the only genuinely introductory textbook to the subject of transportation planning.

Commuting, the daily link between residences and workplaces, sets up the complex interaction between the two most important land uses (residential and employment) in a city, and dictates the configuration of urban structure.

Originally published in 1985, this book considers many important aspects of the transport systems of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning.

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK.

Viable, value-creating solutions for securing global transportation networks Securing Global Transportation Networks demonstrates how improved security processes can create value across all the business functions throughout an entire value chain.

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context.

The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links.

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians' safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place.

This book critically explores the relationship between mobility patterns, transport provision and urban development in East African cities.

Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning.

Smart mobility includes automation, shared mobility services and other new forms of mobility made possible by digital technologies.

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made.

Originally published in 1982, this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting.

"e;The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being.

Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world.

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

Inventing Mobility For All: Mastering Mobility-as-a-Service with Self-Driving Vehicles explores 'Mobility-as-a-Service' and explains the impact of this mobility concept on social and societal life, as well as on global travel behaviours.

Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice.

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years.

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles.

A provocative look at our nation's dependency on the automobile and how its potential impact on urban design will either make or break our health, economy, and quality of life.

The subject of driverless and even ownerless cars has the potential to be the most disruptive technology for real estate, land use, and parking since the invention of the elevator.

With the growth of just-in-time delivery and e-commerce, fast and efficient cargo delivery remains in high demand around the globe.

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and 'the urban' as its pivotal axis.

The bus is the most patronised of all land-based public passenger mode but is seen as a somewhat unglamorous means of supporting mobility and accessibility, in contrast to rail - heavy and light, yet offers so much to the travelling public as well as offering attractive sustainability opportunities.

This Element investigates the relationship between investment in infrastructure and the household''s well-being in Ghana.

The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis.

Contemporary society is marked and defined by the ways in which mobile goods, bodies, vehicles, objects, and data are organized, moved and staged.

Successful cycling planning depends on combining improvements to infrastructure with education.

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all.

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