Transforming Urban Transport : From Automobility to Sustainable Transport.

Transforming Urban Transport : From Automobility to Sustainable Transport.

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. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must...

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Main Author: Low, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Subjects:
Sustainable engineering.
Urban transportation > Environmental aspects.
Urban transportation policy.
Sustainable engineering
Urban transportation > Environmental aspects
Urban transportation policy
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Table of 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 change9 New analysis for a new synthesis; 10 Harnessing the energy of free range children; 11 Disseminating learning; 12 Conclusion: dimensions of change; Bibliography; Index.

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