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Author: F. Wilkie
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1137476893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerformance, Transport and Mobility is an investigation into how performance moves, how it engages with ideas about movement, and how it potentially shapes our experiences of movement. Using a critical framework drawn from the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences, it analyses a range of performances that explore what it means to be in transit.
Author: Henrik Gudmundsson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-03
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 3662469243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, indicators and frameworks for measuring sustainable development in the transportation sector are developed. In the second, the authors analyze actual planning and decision-making in transportation agencies in a variety of governance settings. This analysis of real-world case studies demonstrates the benefits and limitations of current approaches to sustainable development in transportation. The book concludes with a discussion on how to make sustainability count in transportation decision-making and practice.
Author: Jonathan Levine
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1501716093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLevine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But their book also represents a major step toward transforming accessibility from a vaguely defined aspiration into concrete measures that can guide planning decisions. ― Journal of the American Planning Association In From Mobility to Accessibility, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an "accessibility shift" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, From Mobility to Accessibility shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. The book argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decisionmakers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.
Author: Sam Staley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.
Author: Julie Cidell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1317486684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. Reimagining the city prompts an important question: How best to rethink urban geographies of transport and mobility? This original book explores connections – in theory and practice – between transport geographies and "new mobilities" in the production of urban space. It provides a broad introduction to intersecting perspectives of urban geography, transport geography, and mobilities studies on urban "places of flows." Diverse, international, and leading-edge contributions reinterpret everyday intersections as nodes, urban corridors as links, cities and regions as networks, and the discourses and imaginaries that frame the politics and experiences of mobility. The chapters illuminate nearly all aspects of urban transport, from street regulation and roadway planning, intended and "subversive" practices of car and truck drivers, planning and promotion of mass transit investments, and the restructuring of freight and logistics networks. Together these offer a unique and important contribution for social scientists, planners, and others interested in the politics of the city on the move.
Author: Constantinos Antoniou
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2018-11-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780128129708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics provides a guide to the new analytical framework and its relation to big data, focusing on capturing, predicting, visualizing and controlling mobility patterns - a key aspect of transportation modeling. The book features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. Users will find a detailed, mobility 'structural' analysis and a look at the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements and limitations for realistic transportation applications and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. This book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and transportation systems analysis with a study of big data's impact on mobility and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques. The book covers in detail, mobility 'structural' analysis (and its dynamics), the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements and limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis related to complex processes and phenomena. The book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and Transportation Systems Analysis with a study of big data's impact on mobility, and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques.
Author: Cambridge Systematics
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780309066624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This [i.e. The] purpose of this guidebook is to help organizations improve the development, implementation, and management of their transportation plans and programs. By adding an element of performance measurement and monitoring to existing transportation planning processes, agencies can obtain better information about the performance of their existing programs and services. Performance-based planning provides a process and tools to identify and assess alternative programs, projects, and services with respect to overall transportation plan goals and objectives."--Ch. 1. Overview, p. 3.
Author: Karel Martens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1317599578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the focus of transportation planning and policy has been on the performance of the transport system and ways to improve it, without much attention being paid to the persons actually using – or failing to use – that transport system. There are far-reaching consequences of this approach, with some enjoying the fruits of the improvements in the transport system, while others have experienced a substantial deterioration in their situation. The growing body of academic evidence on the resulting disparities in mobility and accessibility, have been paralleled by increasingly vocal calls for policy changes to address the inequities that have developed over time. Drawing on philosophies of social justice, Transport Justice argues that governments have the fundamental duty of providing virtually every person with adequate transportation and thus of mitigating the social disparities that have been created over the past decades. Critical reading for transport planners and students of transportation planning, this book develops a new approach to transportation planning that takes people as its starting point, and justice as its end.
Author: Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All)
Publisher:
Published: 2022-09-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility Performance at a Glance: Country Dashboards 2022 is the second edition of the Mobility Performance at a Glance: Country Dashboards report that compiles the profiles of transportation and mobility systems of 183 countries, using the latest data available for 60 transport indicators, and ranks these countries based on their system performances, using their Global Sustainable Mobility Index (GSMI) scores.
Author: Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All)
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781734153392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility Performance at a Glance: Country Dashboards 2020 report containing the first-ever compilation of 183 country dashboards for users to diagnose, monitor, and benchmark country performances on sustainable mobility. The dashboard covers all modes of transport. Each country dashboard contains (i) 40 indicators to measure progress on universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility: and (ii) its score and global ranking on sustainable mobility. Users can learn first-hand about the countries that are performing well on sustainable mobility and how others are faring about achieving their targets.
