A New Deal for Transport?
A New Deal for Transport?

Author: Iain Docherty

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1444355511

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Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field. Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues. Will inform debate over the future of transport policy. Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Transport Matters
Transport Matters

Author: Docherty, Iain

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2019-10-16

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1447329554

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This book shows that transport matters. Comprising a series of highly accessible chapters written by respected experts, it reviews key transport issues and explains how and why effective and efficient transport is fundamental to successfully addressing all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore how we ‘do’ transport, as a result of the technologies available to us and the cultures surrounding how we use them, and examine how this has significant social, economic and environmental consequences. They also provide key recommendations for how we could do things differently to bring about a happier, healthier and more economically secure future for all of us.

A People's Green New Deal
A People's Green New Deal

Author: Max Ajl

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781786807069

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The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to degrowth, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South. As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows, A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate.

Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain
Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain

Author: Peter Headicar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-04-08

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1134104979

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A critical overview of the nature, evolution and contemporary challenges of transport policy and planning at the national and local scale while expanding on procedural mechanisms and forging much-needed links with the related discipline of spatial planning.

Intermodal Freight Transport
Intermodal Freight Transport

Author: David Lowe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-08-11

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1136394656

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This book provides an introduction to the whole concept of intermodal freight transport, the means of delivering goods using two or more transport modes, recounting both European experience and UK developments and reporting on the extensive political influences on this form of transport. This is placed into context with reference to developments in North America and Asia. Detailed explanations are given of the road and rail vehicles, the loading units and the transfer equipment used in such operations. In particular, the role of the Channel Tunnel in the development of long-haul combined transport operations between the UK and Europe is considered.

Transport, Environment And Society
Transport, Environment And Society

Author: Cahill, Michael

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0335218725

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The environmental consequences of our transport system in the shape of pollution and carbon emissions are well known. Not so clear are the social consequences of contemporary transport and mobility policy. Readers are introduced to the complexity of the relationship between transport and society together with the debates about the social inequalities produced by the transport system and the connection between social inequality, social exclusion and transport disadvantage. This book explores the social inequalities which result from the ways we travel connecting these to the key areas of social policy. Reviewing the evidence on the social impact of transport the book discusses the ways in which a sustainable transport policy could emerge.

The Dynamics of Freight Transport Development
The Dynamics of Freight Transport Development

Author: Philippe Thalmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1351147072

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Through the eye of an economist Thalmann explores 200 years of the dynamics of freight transport development in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. With a strong underlying theme concerned with the impact of government intervention on the efficiency of the freight transport system, Thalmann is able to provide an insight into the differences and similarities of the two countries who are currently the pioneers of this industry and thus make interesting case studies for the rest of Europe. This book provides quality data in graphical form which is accessible to all. Contrary to other work, Thalmann does not focus on road or rail transportation alone but on the whole range of transport modes. At the same time the research remains manageable with its focus on freight transportation while most comparable books deal solely with people transportation. The Dynamics of Freight Transport Development should be an invaluable tool for researchers in the field of transportation and also for the more general reader interested in the past and future of transportation.

Transport Policy in Britain
Transport Policy in Britain

Author: Stephen Glaister

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0230214258

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This comprehensively revised and updated new edition of the leading text in the field provides full coverage of the historical, political and European context of British transport policy, of the new financial and regulatory regimes of the Twenty-first century and of the impact of such major new initiatives as London's congestion charge.

Strategic Environmental Assessment in Transport and Land Use Planning
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Transport and Land Use Planning

Author: Thomas B. Fischer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1000946339

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Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effective planning of transport and land use. This is an analysis of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It establishes the effectiveness of SEA through comparative studies of practice in three countries: Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. The author shows that use of SEA is widespread but far from systematic. He demonstrates the advantages of adopting a systematic application of a comprehensive form of SEA derived from all the major current approaches. Only once this approach is fully understood and systematically applied will all the full benefits be achieved and environmental impacts be minimalized.

The Reform of Public Services Under New Labour
The Reform of Public Services Under New Labour

Author: C. Needham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-22

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 023059316X

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Drawing on interviews conducted by the author with politicians, bureaucrats and citizens, alongside content analysis of government documents, the book explains how New Labour has consumerized public services and contributed to the anti-politics that it previously decried.