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Transforming Urban Transport : From Automobility to Sustainable Transport.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136187919
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.4
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- PART 1: The global dilemma -- 1 The dilemma of mobility -- 2 The mobility of goods and people -- 3 The global environmental crisis of transport -- PART 2: Global and local change and persistence -- 4 From automobility to sustainable transport -- 5 Capitalist regulation and the provision of public transportation in Japan -- 6 Institutional barriers and opportunities -- PART 3: Strategies of transformation -- 7 Governing dispersed and concentrated cities -- 8 Action strategies for paradigm change -- 9 New analysis for a new synthesis -- 10 Harnessing the energy of free range children -- 11 Disseminating learning -- 12 Conclusion: dimensions of change -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. It challenges the commonly held view that a combination of urbanity and higher residential density expressed in compact cities (expected to have greater public transport use) will resolve urban transport/environment problems, instead showing that transport systems can be changed to meet the environmental imperatives without the massive spatial change implied.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- PART 1: The global dilemma -- 1 The dilemma of mobility -- 2 The mobility of goods and people -- 3 The global environmental crisis of transport -- PART 2: Global and local change and persistence -- 4 From automobility to sustainable transport -- 5 Capitalist regulation and the provision of public transportation in Japan -- 6 Institutional barriers and opportunities -- PART 3: Strategies of transformation -- 7 Governing dispersed and concentrated cities -- 8 Action strategies for paradigm change -- 9 New analysis for a new synthesis -- 10 Harnessing the energy of free range children -- 11 Disseminating learning -- 12 Conclusion: dimensions of change -- Bibliography -- Index.

Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. It challenges the commonly held view that a combination of urbanity and higher residential density expressed in compact cities (expected to have greater public transport use) will resolve urban transport/environment problems, instead showing that transport systems can be changed to meet the environmental imperatives without the massive spatial change implied.

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