Planning Sustainable Transpotr.

Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how complex transport systems work. Straightforward choices are never made between one transport mode and another; door-to-door movements of both people and frei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hutton, Barry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis, 2013.
Temas:
Transportation > Environmental aspects.
Transportation > Planning.
Transportation and state.
Transport > Planification.
Transport > Politique gouvernementale.
Transport > Aspect de l'environnement.
Transportation and state
Transportation > Environmental aspects
Transportation > Planning
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The definitions: ustainability
  • The definitions: transport
  • The definitions: planning
  • The trends: travel and haulage
  • Fuel consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG)
  • Location and land use
  • The problems: congestion
  • The problems: interchanging and trans-shipment
  • The problems: the space budget
  • Transport costs
  • Sensing success and failure
  • Managing the environmental impacts
  • Mobility and accessibility
  • Controlling costs
  • Supporting the economy
  • Road vehicle design
  • Public transport
  • Tolls, taxes and tariffs: fares, fines and fees
  • Transport demand prediction
  • The need for a new methodology to estimate travel demand
  • Planning sustainable transport : the agenda.

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