Download or read book Factors Affecting Public Support of Transportation Policies written by Xuenan Ni and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What transportation policies do people support? What factors affect people’s policy support? Detangling people’s support of transportation policies is a way to understand public needs, to understand how the public evaluates and envisions the role of government in shaping the current as well as future urban transport system, and to anticipate difficulties of implementing certain types of policies due to public resistance. It is important to study policy support because 1) understanding public opinions can lend legitimacy and responsiveness to policy making processes and outcomes, and 2) characterizing people based on their support for different types of mobility policies may help customize policies for different groups so that the municipalities can enhance the effectiveness or equity of implementing certain types of policies. This thesis models the factors that contribute to stated support of 11 different transportation policies in an international sample of 41,932 individuals in 51 countries/regions using the utility-maximizing approach of hybrid discrete choice. It analyzes transportation policy support expressed by individuals in the survey, with respect to their socio-demographic characteristics, travel modes, and attitudes. We find that across the globe, different age, gender and income groups prioritize policies differently and that generally individuals support policies that benefit their most typical transport mode positively. Moreover, by controlling for individual characteristics, a country-level analysis attempts to capture differences of policy support resulting from being of different nationalities. The results suggest that many countries share similarity in their policy support with other countries that are geographically adjacent, but there are also unexpected country peers that are far removed geographically, but have similar policy support. Overall, the methods and findings of this thesis may be useful for policymakers working on evaluating policy effectiveness for certain social groups and for researchers looking at what policy paths towards sustainable transportation that different countries might take.
Download or read book Transportation Policy Issues Affecting Older Americans written by William H. Crown and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policy Options for Intermodal Freight Transportation written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizes the importance of freight transportation to the US and that intermodal freight transportation is a major technological and organizational trend affecting the sector's performance. Examining policy options, this report views that public investment in freight facilities is complex and they have been usually financed by the private sector.
Download or read book The Geography of Transport Systems written by Jean-Paul Rodrigue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.
Download or read book The Future of Disability in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.
Download or read book Future Transport Policy written by K. J. Button and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book remains as relevant today as when it was first published, as it discusses issues in transport policy that are still being debated: what levels of subsidies should be applied; what form of ownership should prevail; how transport should be regulated or deregulated; and which modes of transport should be favoured. The book examines how policies have evolved, and what factors affect present decision making. It includes contentious areas such as international airline deregulation and urban transport.
Download or read book Handbook of Global Health written by Ilona Kickbusch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 2881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics. This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health. As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value.
Download or read book Sustainable Transport Policies written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Substantial progress has been made in improving the sustainability of transport in Europe in a number of areas and is reported in this paper. Nevertheless there remain important problems and challenges: - unsustainable rates of traffic growth ...
Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Download or read book All Aboard Investigating Public Transit Use Across Income Levels and Implications for Transportation Policy in the United States written by Paul Louis Belmonte and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America's oldest roads reach the end of their useful life, traffic congestion continues to worsen, and the nation's primary federal transportation financing vehicle (the Highway Trust Fund) approaches insolvency, U.S. policymakers must consider ways to incentivize alternative modes of transportation such as public transportation. In addition to providing accessibility, public transportation also plays a role in reducing carbon emissions and easing traffic congestion--two very serious concerns for American metropolitan areas. In the next few decades, Americans will almost certainly have to drive less and rely more on public transit for the sake of our environment and infrastructure. It is essential to identify policies that incentivize these changes among Americans on all points of the economic spectrum. This paper examines the rates of public transportation use among American workers and seeks to identify the key factors explaining transit use and how those factors vary across income levels. Prior research has investigated both supply-side and demand-side factors explaining Americans' transit use, but few studies, if any, have examined to what extent these explanatory factors vary at different levels of income. Although public transit is frequently cited as a textbook example of an inferior good, evidence suggests that transit is actually a normal good at the highest levels of income; indeed, the data show low- and high-income commuters already use transit at comparable rates. I hypothesize that the transit-income relationship is non-linear and that the effect of income on transit is positive at higher levels of income. Drawing on data from the 2009 American Community Survey, the American Public Transportation Association, and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, I construct a national snapshot of American commuters that captures levels and costs of transit service, levels of traffic congestion, and automobile access, some of the key explanatory factors identified in prior research. Utilizing logit regression models, I investigate to what extent personal and external factors affect the probability of an individual's transit use at varying levels of income. This thesis aims to further discussions of public transit in transportation planning and to inform policy makers of the potential distributional and social equity implications of future transportation policies.
Download or read book Factors Affecting Transportation Logistics written by James Shuler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book, Factors Affecting Transportation Logistics, is to provide the reader a basic understanding of various factors that logistics decision makers use when making logistic-related decisions. There are two major factor categories: internal environmental factors and external environmental factors. Internal environmental factors are divided into four levels: individual, service, functional and organizational levels. External environmental factors are divided into information technology, supply chain, globalization and corporate structure.
Download or read book Informal Transport in the Developing World written by Robert Cervero and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Inequality written by Clayton Nall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.
Download or read book Transportation Factors and National Transportation Policy written by Arthur K. Branham and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Policy and Economic Regulation written by John Bitzan and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Theodore Keeler had a distinguished career in transportation economics, helping to shape regulatory policies concerning the transportation industries and assessing the appropriateness of various policies. A distinguishing feature of his work is that it always had policy implications. As a tribute to Theodore Keeler, this book examines transportation policy issues across a variety of transportation industries, including aviation, railroads, highways, motor carrier transport, automobiles, urban transit, and ocean shipping. The book evaluates the economic impact and effectiveness of various policies, employing empirical analyses and new estimation techniques, such as Bayesian analysis. The book is designed for transportation professionals and researchers, as well as transportation economics students, providing an in-depth analysis of some of today’s important transportation policy issues. Policy changes established in the last 35-40 years have introduced profound changes in the business environment of the transportation industry. Past policy changes promoted the free market’s role in setting prices and determining service availability. While 21st century policy has focused on a variety of other issues, such as safety, road and air congestion, productivity growth, labor relations and exhaust emission, many still promote the role of competition. In addition to examining various transportation policy issues in the U.S., the book explores some approaches to dealing with transportation issues in different parts of the world. Contemporary transportation policy debates have broadened from their initial focus of primarily examining the merits of reforming economic regulations at national levels, to now examining a variety of issues such as alternative methods of social regulation (such as safety regulation and emission controls), new approaches to changing economic regulations, the potential for reforming international regulations, and the appropriate role for government in transportation. Examines transportation policy developments across a variety of modes, including some international analysis Shows how new policy changes, such as changes in regulation, affect overall transportation system performance Features chapters that use innovative methodologies, such as Bayesian techniques, qualitative analysis, and an attribute-incorporated Malmquist productivity index Examines the ways that policy impacts depend on a variety of factors, and shows how economic tools can be used to gain greater insights into the likely impacts of policy and the desirability of various policies Analyzes transport prices, quality of service, safety, the use of information technology and operating issues, highlighting how transportation enhances quality of life
Download or read book The Right to Transportation written by Thomas Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does transportation affect the lives of minority, low-income, elderly, and physically disabled citizens? The answer is yes, and those effects can be profound, according to The Right to Transportation. The authors argue that transportation policies can limit access to education, jobs, and services for some individuals while undermining the economy and social cohesion of entire communities. Policies that have nurtured the U.S. highway system and let public transportation wither have also led to ghettos and social isolation. More and more communities are recognizing the problem. This book explains the strategies and policies that can address inequities in the nation's transportation and transportation planning systems so that the benefits and burdens of those systems can be shared equally across all communities. With a close examination of how transportation policies affect individuals and communities, the book is a guide to transportation fairness. It explains the demographic trends, historical events, and current policies that have shaped transportation in the U.S. and offers recommendations for moving to equity.
Download or read book Behavioural Research for Transport Policy written by Brill Academic and published by VSP. This book was released on 1986-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The efficiency of transport systems depends on their relevance to those using them. All too often, however, transport policies are implemented at great expense without due regard to the behaviour, and consequent needs, of transport users. Behavioural Research for Transport Policy will improve the lines of communication between behavioural researchers and policy makers. The papers presented at the 1985 International Conference on Travel Behaviour cover the wide range of factors which need to be taken into account when gauging the effect behaviour has on transport requirements and usage. Contributions discuss the variety and usefulness of different survey frameworks; the lifestyle factors affecting transport use, and the problems of cost effectiveness in both survey techniques and the implementation of transport policy.
