The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

Author: David L. Greene

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-07-14

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9783540631231

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Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

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Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Travel Matters
Travel Matters

Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 0309087732

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The report and the TravelMatters website (developed as part of this project) are designed to present information on climate change and to examine how greenhouse gas emissions from transportation may be reduced. Both the print and web-based research products review the capacity of public transportation to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and present this information in a format accessible to transportation professionals and the general public. Key strategies for reducing transportation emissions--increasing the use of transit, changing land-use patterns, and adopting energy-efficient technologies and fuels in transit fleets--are discussed.

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form
Achieving Sustainable Urban Form

Author: Elizabeth Burton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 113680479X

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Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.

Social Costs and Sustainability
Social Costs and Sustainability

Author: Olav Hohmeyer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 3642603653

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Important progress has been made in recent years in the valuation of social costs of energy and transport. This progress has encouraged the insight that systems of "Green Accounting" considering social costs and policy instruments for the internalization of social costs are necessary tools to realize the worldwide goal of sustainable development. This workshop report provides an excellent survey of the latest results of social costs in the energy and transport sector. Further, the theoretical framework of social costs is extended to a broader concept of sustainable development. Finally, concepts and first experiences of the internalization of social costs e.g. through least cost planning or an ecological tax reform are reviewed.