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Book URBAN TRANSPORT AND THE ENVIRONMENT  V  2  CASE STUDIES

Download or read book URBAN TRANSPORT AND THE ENVIRONMENT V 2 CASE STUDIES written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Transport and the Environment

Download or read book Urban Transport and the Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Transport and the Environment

Download or read book Urban Transport and the Environment written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Transport Environment and Equity

Download or read book Urban Transport Environment and Equity written by Eduardo Alcantara Vasconcellos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach. It emphasizes the importance of co-ordinating urban, transport and traffic planning, and addresses the major challenge of modifying the building and use of roads. The author makes suggestions for innovative and radical new measures towards an equitable and sustainable urban environment.

Book Urban transport and the environment

Download or read book Urban transport and the environment written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable Urban Transport

Download or read book Sustainable Urban Transport written by Maria Attard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication brings together an international group of researchers and presents work from different countries dealing with issues related to transport policy, attitudes and mode choice, car sharing and alternative modes of transport, and discusses the future of non-motorized modes of transport.

Book Urban Transport and the Environment II

Download or read book Urban Transport and the Environment II written by Lance J. Sucharov and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Transport and the Environment

Download or read book Urban Transport and the Environment written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in City Transport

Download or read book Advances in City Transport written by S. Basbas and published by Witpress. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City transport system studies have been a constant challenge for engineers and planners all over the world, particularly because their decisions affect people's daily lives. The environmental impacts in urban areas due to traffic play a significant role and it could be considered that nowadays the evaluation of intervening factors in the transport system is based on the examination of their environmental dimension; that is whether the target to upgrade the quality of the environment can be achieved. New ideas, which are often supported by the evolution of new technologies in the transport sector, have materialized in various cities all over the world where people from different backgrounds and cultures face similar daily problems as far as transportation is concerned. These case studies should benefit all those who are involved in the process of transportation planning and engineering.

Book Urban Transport XI

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  • Author : C. A. Brebbia
  • Publisher : Wit Transactions on the Built
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781845640088
  • Pages : 936 pages

Download or read book Urban Transport XI written by C. A. Brebbia and published by Wit Transactions on the Built. This book was released on 2005 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing need for better urban transport systems and a healthier environment has led to an increased level of research around the world. This is reflected in Urban Transport XI, which features the proceedings of the latest conference in this well-established series. The subjects covered are of primary importance for analysing the complex interaction of the urban transport environment and for establishing action strategies for transport and traffic problems. Over 85 papers are included and these highlight topics within the following areas: Urban Transport Systems, Public Transport Systems; Infrastructure and Maintenance; Safety and Security; Transport Sustainability; Accessibility and Mobility; Environmental Impacts; Air and Noise Pollution; Energy and Fuel; Integrated Land Use and Transport; Travel Demand Management; Traffic Control and Integration; Advanced Transport Systems; Simulation; Economic and Social Impacts and Cost and Investment Analysis.

Book Making Urban Transport Sustainable

Download or read book Making Urban Transport Sustainable written by N. Low and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Urban Transport Sustainable addresses the future of urban transport as a global issue. Money is being poured into roads, railways and airports at a time when the global atmosphere is threatened and oil production has reached its peak. If the world's environment and societies are to be sustained, urban transport has to change. Contributions by experts from the developed and developing world discuss the severity of the problem and suggest potential solutions.

Book Transport  Climate Change and the City

Download or read book Transport Climate Change and the City written by Robin Hickman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia. Progress however appears difficult to make as the private car, still largely fuelled by petrol or diesel, remains the mainstream mode of use. Transport is the key sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions seem difficult to reduce. Transport, Climate Change and the City seeks to develop achievable and low transport CO2 emission futures in a range of international case studies, including in London, Oxfordshire, Delhi, Jinan and Auckland. The aim is that the scenarios as developed, and the consideration of implementation and governance issues, can help us plan for and achieve attractive future travel behaviours at the city level. The alternative is to continue with only incremental progress against CO2 reduction targets, to ‘sleepwalk’ into climate change difficulties, oil scarcity, a poor quality of life, and to continue with the high traffic casualty figures. The topic is thus critical, with transport viewed as central to the achievement of the sustainable city and reduced CO2 emissions.

Book System Innovation for Sustainability 2

Download or read book System Innovation for Sustainability 2 written by Theo Geerken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU-funded project "Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges" (SCORE!) consists of around 200 experts in the field of sustainable innovation and sustainable consumption. The SCORE! philosophy is that innovation in SCP (sustainable consumption and production) policy can be achieved only if experts that understand business development, (sustainable) solution design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy work together in shaping it. Sustainable technology design can be effective only if business can make the products profitably and consumers are attracted to them. To understand how this might effectively happen, the expertise of systems thinkers must be added to the mix. The publication in 2008 of System Innovation for Sustainability 1 was the first result of a unique positive confrontation between experts from all four communities. It examined what SCP is and what it could be, provided a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looked at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches. System Innovation for Sustainability 2 is the first of three books of case studies covering, respectively, the three key consumption areas of: mobility; food and agriculture; and energy use and housing. These three areas are responsible for 70% of the life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies. These case studies aim to stimulate, foster or force change to SCP theory in practice. System Innovation for Sustainability 2 focuses on change towards sustainable personal mobility based on implemented cases analysed from a system perspective. It examines what changes can be made to help us reduce our need for mobility, or start to make use of more sustainable mobility systems. This is clearly a critical and highly problematic area, as increasing living standards of a growing global population have resulted in rapid rises in both car and air travel along with the associated pollution. Uniquely, this book approaches the problems and solutions from a systems perspective, explaining the meta-trends, specific issues for the mobility sector, socioeconomic trends, political considerations, socio-cultural developments and environmental issues. As well as the mobility system itself, other societal systems that impact the need for mobility, such as labour and taxation, are addressed in order to provide sustainable solutions to our current "lock-in" problems. Three major problem areas are considered (the "three Cs"): carbon emissions (and the growing contribution of mobility to the climate change crisis), congestion, and casualties. And each strategy proposed addresses one or more of these problem areas. Among the cases discussed are: Norway's carbon compensation scheme for air travel; Madrid's high-occupancy vehicle lanes; London's congestion charge scheme; market-based instruments such as eco-labelling for cars; and taxation. The book identifies opportunities for actors such as governments, manufacturers and consumers to intervene in the complex system to promote sustainable mobility. It concludes with a reflection on problems, trends and action needed. The System Innovation for Sustainability series is the fruit of the first major international research network on SCP and will set the standard in this field for some years to come. It will be required reading for all involved in the policy debate on sustainable production and consumption from government, business, academia and NGOs for designers, scientists, businesses and system innovators.

Book Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century III

Download or read book Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century III written by Lance J. Sucharov and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 41 papers include most of the presentations at the conference, and provide an international perspective on efforts to create integrated transportation systems in cities without utterly ruining the environment. The perspective is also multidisciplinary, with contributions from transportation systems, environmental studies, planning, funding, management, vehicle and transport technology, transport modeling, and traffic studies. The main themes are rail transportation systems, bus and freight transport systems, private vehicle studies, general transportation systems, residential and pedestrian studies, studies of user's choices, future vision, and environmental aspects. Case studies come from such places as Argentina, Scotland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Japan, Ireland, and Germany. Reproduced from typescripts, some double spaced. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies

Download or read book The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies written by Dorina Pojani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world’s major emerging economies – Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses. Contributions on each of these twelve countries focus on one or more major cities per country. This book aims to fill a gap in the transport literature that is crucial to understanding the needs of a large portion of the world’s urban population, especially in view of the southward shift in economic power. Readers will develop a better understanding of urban transport problems and policies in nations where development levels are below those of richer countries (mainly in the northern hemisphere) but where the rate of economic growth is often increasing at a faster rate than the wealthiest nations.