Download or read book Transport and the economy written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Transport Committee calls on the Government to publish a White Paper on its transport strategy, explaining in particular how spending on transport will deliver economic growth and development. Such a strategy must set objectives for all transport spending and explain the criteria Ministers will use to decide between different claims on limited financial resources. The report welcomes the commitment to undertake transport investment that will deliver sustainable growth and enterprise, including 'green' industries, balanced across all sectors and in a manner that will reduce regional disparities. Ministers must however ensure that this vision for transport investment is backed up by a pro-active and fully integrated economic development strategy. This is so far absent. The current Government has swept away the regional tier of planning and many institutions that played a key role in the development of strategic priorities for transport spending in support of economic development. This has created a vacuum that has left regions without the institutions and arrangements they need to plan and prioritise sub-national transport schemes and other significant transport infrastructure. The Coalition also needs a much stronger strategy for developing the UK's major ports and airports. The Government must also do more to correct regional disparities in transport investment. The Department for Transport's 'New Approach To Appraisal' process, which plays such a major role in deciding which transport schemes get Government funding, is highly controversial. Small schemes, including sustainable transport projects, may be cut disproportionately under new transport funding arrangements.

Download or read book Birmingham s Crossley Buses written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With previously unpublished photographs, the author documents the history of Birmingham's Crossley buses.

Download or read book Public Transport written by Peter R. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widened in scope and completely updated, this new edition of a well-established textbook provides an authoritative introduction to all modes of public transport; from taxis and local buses to intercity rail, domestic air and express coaches.

Download or read book City Centre Planning and Public Transport written by Barry J. Simpson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. A highly topical international study, it examines the effects of public transport policies on the central areas of several British cities and those in the former West Germany and France. A series on in-depth case studies deals with the structure of central and local government and the operation of town and transport planning in each country. The book discusses the principles, legislation and practice of physical planning in city centres. It will be of interest to those concerned with urban and transport planning.

Download or read book The Politics of Mobility written by Geoff Vigar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Mobility presents case studies of local transport policy-making and in-depth analysis of UK national transport policy in the period 1987-2000 to highlight how policy was promoted and resisted.

Download or read book It s a World Thing written by Bob Digby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics needed for GSCE Geography (Edexcel specification B).

Download or read book Birmingham Buses Trams and Trolleybuses in the Second World War written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into his superb collection of wartime shots, renowned Midlands bus expert David Harvey offers a fascinating snapshot of theses buses’ life during the Second World War.

Download or read book Integrated Transport written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated Transport : The future of light rail and modern trams in the United Kingdom, tenth report of session 2004-05, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

Download or read book The draft Local Transport Bill and the Transport Innovation Fund written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HCP 564-i, session 2006-07

Download or read book Birmingham Buses Route by Route 1925 1975 written by Malcolm Keeley and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the end of 1924, Birmingham Corporation Tramways (BCT) placed into service its first significant numbers of closed top double-deck buses - these were immediately successful, and BCT decided that the motorbus was the way forward. Tracing the history of buses in Birmingham, this book looks at BCT routes between 1925 and 1975.

Download or read book West Midlands PTE and Its Successors written by Andrew Cole and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Cole offers a range of rare and unpublished images of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive and its successor companies, West Midlands Travel and Travel West Midlands.

Download or read book Origins of the Welfare State V4 written by Nicholas Deakin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Consisting of both shorter pieces and reprints of entire books, this set restores to circulation a number of key texts from the debate about the future of welfare that took place in Britain following the depression. The collection covers the following areas: The period during which the country felt the full impact of the world depression. A number of solutions were put forward during this time to address the arising issues - in particular the consequences of mass unemployment. The approaches ranged from orthodox Marxism to modified conservatism and "middle opinion" A key feature of the debate was the concept of planning as a device to enable governments to cope with economic and social problems. * A range of different ideas were widely canvassed during the war years. It was considered that successful conduct of war could then be applied to the problems of peace. This set resurrects certain proposals, influential in the climate of the times, which have subsequently dropped out of circulation Early assessments dealing with the implications of Welfare State legislation are also included. Although the implementation of the welfare programme was in effect a bipartisan process it did not take long for doubts to be expressed - some of which were directed at the principles on which the Welfare State was being constructed. Volume 4 includes ‘Our towns / the Women's Group on Public Welfare’ and, ‘When we build again’.

Download or read book When We Build Again written by Bournville Village Trust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many UK cities Birmingham was heavily bombed during the Second World War and as with so many bombed British cities, and many un-bombed ones that jumped on to the re-planning bandwagon, there was a clear imperative to reconstruct. But Birmingham was atypical in how it went about this. The city had begun planning in the mid-1930s, principally to replace vast quantities of slum housing – and there had been suggestions about ring roads even from the time of the First World War. So plans were available virtually ready to go, and were approved by a private Act of Parliament in 1946. Yet within Birmingham there were individuals and organisations with a great interest and influence in planning matters. This followed a significant and long-standing local tradition from the Chamberlain family to Nettlefold’s pioneering work on planning and housing at the start of the twentieth century. Prominent amongst these was the Cadbury family and the Bournville Village Trust, and one of its immediate responses to bomb damage was the book, When We Build Again. This was immediately influential in several respects, as contemporary reviews and ongoing citations demonstrate. It highlighted some less-palatable truths about conditions in the city and more widely, with ideas about what might be done. To modern eyes some of these are radical – for example the wholesale redevelopment of the Jewellery Quarter – an area which was recently proposed for World Heritage status. The origins of the derided post-war comprehensive clearance approach lie in these papers. Further, it used innovative and striking graphics to communicate statistical information to lay readers, including the use of striking photography of places and, particularly, people. Also included in this volume is a facsimile of a second Bournville Trust publication from 1955, Birmingham - Fifty Years On. This less famous but equally important publication grew from a frustration at the slow pace of post-war reconstruction, and envisaged what the city would look like half a century later.

Download or read book Birmingham s Children written by Eddie O’Hara and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the positive work of a small local campaigning charity set up in 2018 called All Birmingham’s Children (ABC) which seeks to address the appalling level of inequality and poverty which blights 32-54% of children living in Birmingham.

Download or read book Automobility and the City in Twentieth Century Britain and Japan written by Simon Gunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment (the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its environmental consequences between East and West.

Download or read book Urban Rail Transit written by Waressara Weerawat and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings gather a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 6th Thailand Rail Academic Symposium (TRAS 2019), held at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand on 21–22 November 2019. The focus is on presenting recent research on issues related to rail and metro, with a specific focus on metro performance and system design undertaken in Thailand, South East Asia and beyond. Topics presented are divided into three themes and cover topics towards sustainable transportation related to: Metro operations and system performance; Rail engineering and vehicles; Rail education and training.

Download or read book OECD Urban Policy Reviews Enhancing Productivity in UK Core Cities Connecting Local and Regional Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the right policies and sufficient investment in public transport, housing, skills and other key policy areas, Core Cities could become centres of economic activity that pull their regions and the entire UK to higher productivity levels. This report unpacks the productivity puzzle in the UK and offers policy recommendations for the local and national level to achieve higher productivity and more inclusive growth.