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Improving Urban Access : New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317404354
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 388.4
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Contents:
Improving Urban Access- Front Cover -- Improving Urban Access -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Sustainability and social inclusion: the complexity of financing urban access -- Chapter 2: A field guide to the challenge of financing urban access -- Chapter 3: Shaping rapidly growing Chinese cities: lessons in the behavioural impacts of transport finance choices -- Chapter 4: The social meaning of "access": lessons in transport governance from cities in developed counties -- Chapter 5: Mobility and access when formal markets do not exist: lessons from cities in developing countries -- Chapter 6: Lessons from economics: mechanisms for financing mobility -- Chapter 7: Value capture: why we may be disappointed -- Chapter 8: Why can't urban transport behave like other public services? Explorations in public utility regulation -- Chapter 9: Measuring access, not mobility: a technical challenge -- Chapter 10: Practical approaches to measuring access and social inclusion: lessons from Lisbon -- Chapter 11: Access and social complexity: identifying and managing access requirements across social groups and across the world -- Chapter 12: What's past is prologue: stepping into the future -- Note -- Chapter 2: A field guide to the challenge of financing urban access -- A history of post-World War II urbanization -- Shaping postwar urban travel options: wealth and income -- Paving and paying the way -- Urban options post the post-World War II suburban era -- The triple paradigm shift for reframing the financing of urban access -- References -- Chapter 3: Shaping rapidly growing Chinese cities: lessons in the behavioural impacts of transport finance choices -- Introduction -- From collection to accessibility -- Pathway one: vehicle ownership policies.
Pathway two: land sales financing -- Reflections on distribution -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: The social meaning of "access": lessons in transport governance from cities in developed countries -- Introduction -- Accessibility -- The governance of accessibility -- Funding and financing transport in a period of fiscal crisis -- From busways to tolled tunnels: urban transport regimes in Brisbane, Australia 1991-2012 -- The pro-roads shift -- What does each regime teach us? -- Toward a systemic urban access research agenda for finance and governance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Mobility and access when formal markets do not exist: lessons from cities in developing countries -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Shared economy for improved private car system efficiency -- Unregulated economy for more public transport supply -- Regulation of out-of-market initiatives for more accessibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Lessons from economics: mechanisms for financing mobility -- Introduction -- The specific characteristics of urban transport -- The potential sources of finance -- Applicability of the financing arrangements to urban transport -- Conclusions: possibilities for improving urban transport finance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Value capture: why we may be disappointed -- Introduction -- Transport funding schemes (and their discontents) -- Value capture: its appeal, its assumptions, its fallacies -- Value capture schemes: learning from experiences in economic development -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: Why can't urban transport behave like other public services?: explorations in public utility regulation -- Introduction -- Impediments to sustainable financing -- Where should funding for urban transport come from?.
The promise of a public urban transport utility -- The practice of a public urban transport utility -- Pulling the threads together -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Measuring access, not mobility: a technical challenge -- Reference -- Chapter 10: Practical approaches to measuring access and social inclusion: lessons from Lisbon -- Introduction -- The common perception of accessibility -- Different valuations for different functions and for different travel options -- Transforming these perceptions into "willingness to go a certain distance / time" -- Physical and nonphysical barriers to access -- Technical concepts of accessibility and associated forms of measurement -- Proposed method for measuring accessibility as a gauge of fairness and social inclusion -- The value of functional diversity and how to assess it -- Conclusions: from accessibility indicators to policy guidelines -- References -- Chapter 11: Access and social complexity: identifying and managing access requirements across social groups and across the world -- Introduction and aims -- Background -- Implementing measures of relative accessibility -- Destinations that matter -- Accessibility planning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: "What's past is prologue": stepping into the future -- Redefining the transport policy target -- Systemic governance -- Reframing finance models in light of the policy target and governance -- Final observations: notes to the academy -- Note -- Index.
Summary: Improving Urban Access: New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that it is suited to serving the social, environmental and economic principles that must guide future urban living.
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Improving Urban Access- Front Cover -- Improving Urban Access -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Sustainability and social inclusion: the complexity of financing urban access -- Chapter 2: A field guide to the challenge of financing urban access -- Chapter 3: Shaping rapidly growing Chinese cities: lessons in the behavioural impacts of transport finance choices -- Chapter 4: The social meaning of "access": lessons in transport governance from cities in developed counties -- Chapter 5: Mobility and access when formal markets do not exist: lessons from cities in developing countries -- Chapter 6: Lessons from economics: mechanisms for financing mobility -- Chapter 7: Value capture: why we may be disappointed -- Chapter 8: Why can't urban transport behave like other public services? Explorations in public utility regulation -- Chapter 9: Measuring access, not mobility: a technical challenge -- Chapter 10: Practical approaches to measuring access and social inclusion: lessons from Lisbon -- Chapter 11: Access and social complexity: identifying and managing access requirements across social groups and across the world -- Chapter 12: What's past is prologue: stepping into the future -- Note -- Chapter 2: A field guide to the challenge of financing urban access -- A history of post-World War II urbanization -- Shaping postwar urban travel options: wealth and income -- Paving and paying the way -- Urban options post the post-World War II suburban era -- The triple paradigm shift for reframing the financing of urban access -- References -- Chapter 3: Shaping rapidly growing Chinese cities: lessons in the behavioural impacts of transport finance choices -- Introduction -- From collection to accessibility -- Pathway one: vehicle ownership policies.

Pathway two: land sales financing -- Reflections on distribution -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: The social meaning of "access": lessons in transport governance from cities in developed countries -- Introduction -- Accessibility -- The governance of accessibility -- Funding and financing transport in a period of fiscal crisis -- From busways to tolled tunnels: urban transport regimes in Brisbane, Australia 1991-2012 -- The pro-roads shift -- What does each regime teach us? -- Toward a systemic urban access research agenda for finance and governance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Mobility and access when formal markets do not exist: lessons from cities in developing countries -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Shared economy for improved private car system efficiency -- Unregulated economy for more public transport supply -- Regulation of out-of-market initiatives for more accessibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Lessons from economics: mechanisms for financing mobility -- Introduction -- The specific characteristics of urban transport -- The potential sources of finance -- Applicability of the financing arrangements to urban transport -- Conclusions: possibilities for improving urban transport finance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Value capture: why we may be disappointed -- Introduction -- Transport funding schemes (and their discontents) -- Value capture: its appeal, its assumptions, its fallacies -- Value capture schemes: learning from experiences in economic development -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: Why can't urban transport behave like other public services?: explorations in public utility regulation -- Introduction -- Impediments to sustainable financing -- Where should funding for urban transport come from?.

The promise of a public urban transport utility -- The practice of a public urban transport utility -- Pulling the threads together -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Measuring access, not mobility: a technical challenge -- Reference -- Chapter 10: Practical approaches to measuring access and social inclusion: lessons from Lisbon -- Introduction -- The common perception of accessibility -- Different valuations for different functions and for different travel options -- Transforming these perceptions into "willingness to go a certain distance / time" -- Physical and nonphysical barriers to access -- Technical concepts of accessibility and associated forms of measurement -- Proposed method for measuring accessibility as a gauge of fairness and social inclusion -- The value of functional diversity and how to assess it -- Conclusions: from accessibility indicators to policy guidelines -- References -- Chapter 11: Access and social complexity: identifying and managing access requirements across social groups and across the world -- Introduction and aims -- Background -- Implementing measures of relative accessibility -- Destinations that matter -- Accessibility planning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: "What's past is prologue": stepping into the future -- Redefining the transport policy target -- Systemic governance -- Reframing finance models in light of the policy target and governance -- Final observations: notes to the academy -- Note -- Index.

Improving Urban Access: New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that it is suited to serving the social, environmental and economic principles that must guide future urban living.

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