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Schiller, Preston L.
An introduction to sustainable transportation : policy, planning and implementation / Preston L. Schiller, Eric C. Bruun and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy. - London : Earthscan, 2010. - xxvi, 342 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A highly mobile planet and its challenges: automobile dependency, equity and inequity -- Automobile cities, the car culture and alternative possibilities -- History of sustainable and unsustainable transportation: from walking to wheels and back to walking -- Modes, roads, and routes: technologies, infrastructure, functions and interrelatedness -- Moving freight, logistics and supply chains in a more sustainable direction -- Transportation economics and investment: improving analysis and investment strategies -- Public policy and effective citizen participation: leadership, deliberation, backcasting, scenarios, visualization, and visioning -- A new planning paradigm: from integrated planning, policy and mobility management to repair, regeneration and renewal -- Exemplars of sustainable transportation: walking the talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya -- Conclusion: growing more exemplars.
9781844076642 (hardback) 1844076644 (hardback) 9781844076659 (pbk.) 1844076652 (pbk.)
Transportation--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
HE147.65 / .S35 2010
388.049 / S334
An introduction to sustainable transportation : policy, planning and implementation / Preston L. Schiller, Eric C. Bruun and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy. - London : Earthscan, 2010. - xxvi, 342 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A highly mobile planet and its challenges: automobile dependency, equity and inequity -- Automobile cities, the car culture and alternative possibilities -- History of sustainable and unsustainable transportation: from walking to wheels and back to walking -- Modes, roads, and routes: technologies, infrastructure, functions and interrelatedness -- Moving freight, logistics and supply chains in a more sustainable direction -- Transportation economics and investment: improving analysis and investment strategies -- Public policy and effective citizen participation: leadership, deliberation, backcasting, scenarios, visualization, and visioning -- A new planning paradigm: from integrated planning, policy and mobility management to repair, regeneration and renewal -- Exemplars of sustainable transportation: walking the talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya -- Conclusion: growing more exemplars.
9781844076642 (hardback) 1844076644 (hardback) 9781844076659 (pbk.) 1844076652 (pbk.)
Transportation--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
HE147.65 / .S35 2010
388.049 / S334