Transport planning and policy

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.

Pavement Engineering: Principles and Practice examines a wide range of topics in asphalt and concrete pavements from soil preparation and structural design to life cycle costing and economic analysis.

Air Transport and Regional Development Methodologies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

Transport and the spatial location of population and activities have been important themes of study in engineering, social sciences and urban and regional planning for many decades.

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.

Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues.

High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity and smart urban growth.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 37,133 people lost their lives in accidents on U.

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.

Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges.

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.

World population growth and economic prosperity have given rise to ever-increasing demands on cities, transportation planning, and goods movement.

Transport accounts for 23% of global carbon dioxide emissions and is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing.

Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues.

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.

Many urban and transportation problems, such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and environmental burdens, result from poor integration of land use and transportation.

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

A multi-disciplinary approach to transportation planning fundamentals The Transportation Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practice-oriented reference that presents the fundamental concepts of transportation planning alongside proven techniques.

Is public transportation a right?

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities.

Port Cybersecurity: Securing Critical Information Infrastructures and Supply Chains examines a paradigm shift in the way ports assess cyber risks and vulnerabilities, as well as relevant risk management methodologies, by focusing on initiatives and efforts that attempt to deal with the risks and vulnerabilities of port Critical Information Infrastructures (CII) ecosystems.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

Is public transportation a right?

Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design?

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

The COVID-19 pandemic showed how transport plays a role in societal responses to global events at all levels, from governments to transport operators and individuals.

Public Transport provides an accessible introductory text to the field of public transport systems, covering bus, coach, rail, metro, domestic air and taxi modes.

Cities and Digital Platforms unravels the transformative impact of digital platforms such as Airbnb and Zoom on urban landscapes, illustrating their profound influence on housing, city planning, and the broader economic fabric.

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

Originally published in 1974 this book examines the problems confronting the London public transport system in the 1970s.

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more.

The 'Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving.

The governance and evaluation of 'megaprojects' - that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations - is receiving increased attention.

Transportation Policy and Economic Regulation: Essays in Honor of Theodore Keeler addresses a number of today's important transportation policy issues, exploring a variety of transportation modes, and examining the policy implications of a number of alternatives.

An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.

Originally published in 1986 and a major contribution towards improving operations within transportation systems, this book provides detailed coverage of the theory of transportation networks as a general traffic and transportation discipline.

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use.

Comprehensive and practical, this book provides an essential resource for educators, researchers, students, and those in public agencies and consultancies who are directly responsible for managing municipal infrastructure such as roads, water, and sewer pipes.

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.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

This book will bring a state of the art overview of the research done in sustainable logistics.

Transport allows tourists to move from their origins to their destinations and within destinations.

Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.

The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects.

An examination of how human beings are brought into the planning of complex infrastructure projects, through analysis of a controversial public transportation project.

Public transport systems in contemporary Sub-Saharan African cities are heavily reliant upon paratransit services.

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

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

Originally published in 1988 the central issue of this book is city centre decline and the potential of adequate planning and transport for halting and reversing this decline.