Transport for suburbia : beyond the automobile age


Paul Mees
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
London : Earthscan , 2010
Omfang
XIV, 225 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Transport for Suburbia; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Public Transport 101; 2. The Automobile Age; 3. Beyond the Automobile Age; 4. The Compact City; 5. Planning, Markets and Public Transport; 6. Toronto and Melbourne Revisited; 7. The Busway Solution; 8. The Zurich Model; 9. Towards a General Theory of Public Transport Network Planning; 10. Planning a Network; 11. Every Transit User is Also a Pedestrian; 12. The Politics of Public Transport; References; Index. - The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health disaster unless alternatives are found. It is time to move beyond the automobile age. But while public transport has worked well in the dense cores of some big cities, the problem is that most residents of developed countries now live in dispersed suburbs and smaller cities and towns. These places usually have little or no public transport, and most transport commentators have given up
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Dewey
ISBN
9781844077403

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