Transport planning and policy

A revolution on the roads is approaching.

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.

Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries.

The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before.

Originally published in 1995, this monograph examines a developmental approach to urban transport planning, with reference to Indonesia.

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.

Originally published in 1995 this book provides an authoritative and stimulating account of the issues and problems facing transport planners in the 21st century.

In this book, the author outlines a Robust Web Parking, Truck and Transportation Portal (RWPTTP) for integrating parking and transportation services - a revolutionary approach in contrast to incremental change for managing traffic congestion.

Increasing pressure on global reserves of petroleum at a time of growing demand for personal transport in developing countries, together with concerns over atmospheric pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, are leading to a requirement for more sustainable forms of road transport.

International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative investigates the most significant global-scale international trade expansion and capital investment programme since the Second World War.

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

This fully revised fourth edition of Max Lay's well-established reference work covers all aspects of the technology of roads and road transport, and urban and rural road technology.

Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies.

Poor roads and transport infrastructure are key factors in the marginalization of women and other disempowered groups, but there is little understanding of the many ways in which a lack of mobility affects people's lives.

Originally published in 1979 and with a case-study from Indonesia, this volume examines the question of planning the provision of transport facilities as a special case of the general planning problem.

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

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

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.

'As a movement for social change it is important that we understand our own history.

Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area.

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed.

Today there are over a billion vehicles in the world, and within twenty years, the number will double, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth.

Transport is key to our daily lives.

Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end.

Over 150 entries that clearly define and describe essential terms relating to the academic area of transport studies.

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

En Colombia, el incremento de siniestros viales impacta desproporcionadamente a niños, niñas y adolescentes.

Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area.

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

Throughout the years, we have encountered voluminous situations that highlight the frustrations and humor of the commuting experience.

Transport is key to our daily lives.

Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end.

Through different and successive eras, psychology began to move forward and move towards the field of true sciences, leaving behind the field of philosophy in which it originated.

How can a 10 pound bird bring down a 150,000 pounds aircraft?

Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own.

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth's famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries.

It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book.