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Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads
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A 'must' for college-level students of transportation and urban planning.......2006-08-17
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Future Transport in Cities
Brian Richards Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General
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ASIN: 0415261422 |
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Richards shows that attractive and practical alternatives to a car dependent society are possible. With the growth of car ownership and use reaching crisis proportions in our cities it is imperative to find and implement alternatives if cities are to survive and prosper. He reveals how transport technology is developing, in particular, showing how it can be integrated into the urban environment. The book opens with a look at the "best" of current transportation systems and goes on to explore such advanced technologies as automated highways, covered cities, monorails, new elevated systems, smart cars, guided buses, as well as intelligent highways, and car-free housing. The importance, too, of simple measures such as walking and cycling are covered as being an essential part of any future city as well as that of an "integrated transport" if people are to be encouraged to get out of their cars.
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Transportation Planning and the Future
Peter Nijkamp , Sytze A. Rienstra , and Jaap M. Vleugel Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Industry
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Current trends in transport, particularly the rise in CO_2 emissions, indicate that major changes in technology, public policy and individual behaviour are necessary to make the transport system more compatible with environmental sustainability. What then are the possible futures for sustainable systems of transport? In this book future scenarios are constructed on the basis of the recently developed 'spider model'. This model constructs an evaluation framework - based along spatial, institutional, economic and socio-psychological axes - which visualises the core factors that influence transport systems. These factors can operate either separately or in combination - this interaction creates scenarios which range from market-oriented to regulatory systems, and from individual to collective modes of transport. Drawing on the work of a range of transport analysts, the book suggests that the current trend away from sustainability and collective systems is likely to continue, but when sound policies are introduced, a sustainable transport system becomes a feasible option.
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Transport chiefs map out city's plans for future.(Kevin M. Rampe, Mysore L. Nagaraja and Anthony G. Cracchiolo): An article from: Real Estate Weekly
Elaine Misonzhnik Manufacturer: Hagedorn Publication ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000973S76 Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Weekly, published by Hagedorn Publication on November 10, 2004. The length of the article is 485 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Alternatives to the Automobile: Transport for Livable Cities (Worldwatch Paper 98)
Manufacturer: Worldwatch Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Pamphlet ASIN: 0191010804 |
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The automobile once promised a dazzling world of speed, freedom, and convenience, magically conveying people wherever the road would take them. Given these alluring qualities, it is not surprising the people around the world enthusiastically embraced the dream of car ownership. But societies that have built their transport systems around the automobile are now waking up to a much harsher reality. The problems created by overreliance on the car are outweighing the benefits. These problems are numerous and widespread. Traffic congestion and air polution plague all major cities, and oil dependence makes economies vulnerable. Metropolises with streets designed for cars instead of people are increasingly unlivable. In developing countries, automobiles serve only a small elite and leave the vast majority with inadequate transport. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, recent reforms could add the problems of automobile dependence to already overwhelming economic and environmental crises. Improving automobile technology can never completely solve these troubles. Enhanced fuel efficiency and polution control are at least partly offset by the sheer amount of additional driving, as some 35 million new cars roll off assembly lines each year. Even in the United States, where emissions controls are most effective, air polution is worsening. And no matter how clean or fuel-efficient automobiles become, they still cause traffic jams. Automobile dominance creates a set of problems so relentless that societies in coming decades will have no choice but to seek transport alternatives. A new, more rational approach to transportation is need, one that puts the automobile in its rightful place as one among many options for travel.|
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Future Transport in Cities. (Books: Transportation).(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Yue Wu Manufacturer: American Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DQSLE Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 757 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.|
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The Urban Transport Future
Roy Cresswell , and Anthony P. Young Manufacturer: Longman Group United Kingdom ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General
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Transport: Key to the future of cities (Brookings Institution. Reprint)
Wilfred Owen Manufacturer: Brookings Institution ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DKTDI |
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