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Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Transport planning & policy

Modelling Pedestrian Movement and Interactions with Traffic (Hardcover): Aecom Modelling Pedestrian Movement and Interactions with Traffic (Hardcover)
Aecom
R3,081 Discovery Miles 30 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Transport and Children's Wellbeing (Paperback): Owen Waygood, Margareta Friman, Lars Olsson, Raktim Mitra Transport and Children's Wellbeing (Paperback)
Owen Waygood, Margareta Friman, Lars Olsson, Raktim Mitra
R2,611 Discovery Miles 26 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transportation and Children's Well-Being applies an ecological approach, examining the social, psychological and physical impacts transport has on children at the individual and community level. Drawing on the latest multidisciplinary research in transport, behavior, policy, the built environment and sustainability, the book explains the pathways and mechanisms by which transport affects the different domains of children's travel. Further, the book identifies the influences of transportation with respect to several domains of well-being, highlighting the influences of residential location on travel by different modes and its impact on the long-term choices families make. The book concludes with proposed evidence-based solutions using real-world examples that support positive influences on well-being and eliminate or reduce negative solutions.

Transportation, Energy Use and Environmental Impacts (Paperback): Marcio de Almeida D'Agosto Transportation, Energy Use and Environmental Impacts (Paperback)
Marcio de Almeida D'Agosto
R2,799 R2,604 Discovery Miles 26 040 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transportation, Energy Use and Environmental Impacts shows researchers, students and professionals the important connection between transportation planning, energy use and emissions. The book examines the major transportation activities, components, systems and subsystems by mode. It closely explores the resulting environmental impacts from transport planning, construction and the decommissioning of transportation systems. It discusses transportation planning procedures from an energy use standpoint, offering guidelines to make transportation more energy consumption efficient. Other sections cover propulsion and energy use systems, focusing on road transportation, railway, waterway, pipeline, air, air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, and more.

Empowering the New Mobility Workforce - Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals (Paperback):... Empowering the New Mobility Workforce - Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals (Paperback)
Tyler Reeb
R2,816 R2,621 Discovery Miles 26 210 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape. Transportation employers will need to hire 4.6 million workers-1.2 times the current transportation workforce-in the next decade. The book explores how leaders in education, industry and government can work together to create an ecosystem that facilitates learning and upskilling for emerging and incumbent transportation workers. Readers will learn how to conduct labor market analyses and develop competency models to adapt their workforce. This book will empower readers to establish ongoing communities of practice that cultivate sustainable career pathways that respond to ever-evolving socioeconomic trends and transformational technologies.

Transportation and Public Health - An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation (Paperback): M. D. Meyer, O.... Transportation and Public Health - An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation (Paperback)
M. D. Meyer, O. A. Elrahman
R2,816 R2,569 Discovery Miles 25 690 Save R247 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation helps current and future transportation professionals integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning, thus supporting sustainability and promoting societal health and well-being. The book defines key issues, describes potential solutions, and provides detailed examples of how solutions have been implemented worldwide. In addition, it demonstrates how to identify gaps in existing policy frameworks. Addressing a critical and emerging urgent need in transportation and public health research, the book creates a coherent, inclusive and interdisciplinary framework for understanding. By integrating principles from transportation planning and engineering, health management, economics, social and organizational psychology, the book deepens understanding of these multiple perspectives and tensions inherent in integrating public health and transportation planning and policy implementation.

Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility (Paperback): Pierluigi Coppola, Domokos Esztergar-Kiss Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility (Paperback)
Pierluigi Coppola, Domokos Esztergar-Kiss
R2,782 R2,587 Discovery Miles 25 870 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility presents novel methods for examining the long-term effects on individuals, society, and on the environment for a wide range of forthcoming transport scenarios, such as self-driving vehicles, workplace mobility plans, demand responsive transport analysis, mobility as a service, multi-source transport data provision, and door-to-door mobility. With the development and realization of new mobility options comes change in long-term travel behavior and transport policy. This book addresses these impacts, considering such key areas as the attitude of users towards new services, the consequences of introducing new mobility forms, the impacts of changing work related trips, and more. By examining and contextualizing innovative transport solutions in this rapidly evolving field, the book provides insights into the current implementation of these potentially sustainable solutions. It will serve as a resource of general guidelines and best practices for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

Measuring Transport Equity (Paperback): Karen Lucas, Karel Martens, Floridea Di Ciommo, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer Measuring Transport Equity (Paperback)
Karen Lucas, Karel Martens, Floridea Di Ciommo, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer
R2,806 R2,611 Discovery Miles 26 110 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Measuring Transport Equity provides a range of methods with the potential to shape transport decision-making processes, thus allowing for the adoption of more equitable transport solutions. Presenting numerous applied methods and applications of transport equity assessment, this book formalizes the disciplinary practice, definitions, and methodologies for transport equity. In addition, it recognizes the different types of equity and acknowledges that each requires its own assessment methodologies. Bringing together the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for assessing equity in relation to accessibility, environmental impacts, health, and wellbeing, the book sets standards for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners for conducting social impact analyses and is an ideal reference for those involved in transport planning.

Sustainable Parking Management - Practices, Policies, and Metrics (Paperback): Nada Milosavljevic, Jelena Simicevic Sustainable Parking Management - Practices, Policies, and Metrics (Paperback)
Nada Milosavljevic, Jelena Simicevic
R2,810 R2,563 Discovery Miles 25 630 Save R247 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sustainable Parking Management provides the latest research findings in the field, encouraging transport planners and policymakers to use parking policy as a tool for managing parking and transport systems. The book teaches up-to-date parking management techniques for selecting parking policies and understanding parking behavior when faced with policy interventions. It shows when to apply each policy, how to include user attitudes in policy definition, and how to model user behavior when refining parking policies. In addition, it stresses the need to reduce overall city driving and the need to allow users to choose the transport mode that best suits their needs. As the growth of cities and car dependency worldwide has led to parking problems resulting in increased traffic congestion, pollution, and overall urban chaos, this book creates a model to help deal with the fallout.

The Accelerating Transport Innovation Revolution - A Global, Case Study-Based Assessment of Current Experience, Cross-Sectorial... The Accelerating Transport Innovation Revolution - A Global, Case Study-Based Assessment of Current Experience, Cross-Sectorial Effects, and Socioeconomic Transformations (Paperback)
George Giannopoulos, John F Munro
R2,727 R2,493 Discovery Miles 24 930 Save R234 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Accelerating Transport Innovation Revolution: A Global, Case Study-based Assessment of Current Experience, Cross-sectorial Effects and Socioeconomic Transformations, offers a comprehensive view of current state-of-the-art and practices around the world to create innovation on a revolutionary scale and connect research to commercial exploitation of its results. It offers a fascinating new model of the innovation process based on theories of biological ecosystems, general systems theory and basins of attraction (represented through space-time graphs well known in mathematics). Furthermore, it considers - through a number of dedicated chapters - key issues and elements of innovation ecosystems, such as: Causal Factors and system constraints affecting the development and sustainability of innovation ecosystems (Chapter 4); Review of innovation organization and governance in key countries and regions (Chapter 5); the role of technological "Spillovers" (Chapter 6); Collection and use of data for innovation monitoring and benchmarking (Chapter 7); Intellectual Property protection between competing ecosystems (Chapter 8); Economics of innovation (Chapter 9); Public and private sector involvement in Transport innovation creation (Chapter 10); the role of the individual entrepreneur - innovator in energizing change (Chapter 11). Finally, in Chapter 12, there is a thorough summary of key findings. This book uses a paradigmatic approach to augment the innovation ecosystem model of innovation that integrates beliefs and learning into the innovation ecosystems model. It therefore includes ten case studies from the U.S., Europe and Asia, detailing how innovation is created across continents and different ecosystems and what are the critical lessons to be learned. It does this, effectively, at five different levels of analysis i.e. the individual innovator / entrepreneur level, the organization level (government agency or company), the regional ecosystem level, the nation-state level and the global - systemic or international level. Each level of analysis, reveals unique features of the innovation landscape and the ten case studies allow the reader to assess when and where specific "enablers" are facilitating innovation especially on a revolutionary scale. The need for the book came from the realization that despite the billions of dollars spent on various research programs over the past 20 years (especially in the public sector), there have been few clear and tangible efforts directed at exploring how innovation production increasingly occurs and the critical factors necessary to sustain large-scale, revolutionary change as the future unfolds. Thus, a primary theme of the book is that understanding how research results translate into market innovation and implementation, especially understanding the nature of revolutionary innovation, is as important as the creation of innovations themselves. While the focus of the book is on Transportation, the concepts and recommendations presented apply to other fields too.

City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport - Multiple Perspectives (Hardcover): Cathy Macharis, Sandra Melo City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport - Multiple Perspectives (Hardcover)
Cathy Macharis, Sandra Melo
R3,292 Discovery Miles 32 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

City distribution plays a key role in supporting urban lifestyles helping to serve and retain industrial and trading activities, and contributing to the competitiveness of regional industry. Despite these positive effects, it also generates negative (economic, environmental and social) impacts on cities worldwide. Relatively little attention has been paid to these issues by researchers and policymakers until recently. The analyses found in City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport aim to improve knowledge in this important area by recognizing and evaluating the problems, with a focus on urban freight transport system. This book offers a thorough evaluation of city distribution and urban freight transport, highlighting the importance of developing methodologies that reflect and integrate stakeholder perceptions. Case studies demonstrate that knowledge and awareness in the area of urban freight transport is low, and that broadening knowledge in this area is integral to the innovation of new urban freight policies. The authors argue that the main challenge for researchers lies in developing methodologies that facilitate communication and cooperation between the different actors, citing that this can be achieved by defining either a common evaluation framework with quantitative indicators or an evaluation framework where the points of view have been explicitly modeled. This will be of interest to researchers, city planners and policymakers. Students and scholars of development, public policy, and urban studies will also find much of relevance in this important volume. Contributors: A. Comi, A. Costa, L. Dablanc, W. Debauche, V. Gatta, R. Gevaers, P. Hebes, C. Macharis, J. Maes, E. Marcucci, S. Melo, J. Menge, A. Nuzzolo, M. Percoco, H.J. Quak, A. Stathopoulos, C. Vaghi, E. Valeri, E. Van de Voorde, T. Vanelslander, E. Van Hoeck, T. van Lier, S. Verlinde, F. Witlox

ADR 2015: European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (Russian) - Two volumes... ADR 2015: European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (Russian) - Two volumes (Paperback)
United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe
R4,953 Discovery Miles 49 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road is intended to increase the safety of international transport of dangerous goods by road. Regularly amended and updated since its entry into force, it contains the conditions under which dangerous goods may be carried internationally. This version has been prepared on the basis of amendments applicable as from 1 January 2015. It contains in particular new or revised provisions concerning transport of adsorbed gases; lithium batteries (including damaged or defective lithium batteries, lithium batteries for disposal or recycling); asymmetric capacitors; discarded packagings; ammonium nitrate and radioactive material; testing of gas cartridges and fuel cell cartridges; marking of bundles of cylinders; and the applicability of ISO standards to the manufacture of new pressure receptacles or service equipment.

Urban Mobility Design (Paperback): Selby Coxon, Robbie Napper, Mark Richardson Urban Mobility Design (Paperback)
Selby Coxon, Robbie Napper, Mark Richardson
R2,789 R2,594 Discovery Miles 25 940 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in the passenger transport sector. Profound technological advances are changing the mobility expectations of city populations around the world. Transportation design is an under represented research area of urban transportation planning. Urban Mobility Design addresses this gap, providing research-based analysis on current and future needs of urban transportation passengers. The book examines mobility from a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective, involving a variety of innovative design and transportation planning approaches.

Inclusive Transport - Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages (Paperback): Hans Jeekel Inclusive Transport - Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages (Paperback)
Hans Jeekel
R2,806 R2,560 Discovery Miles 25 600 Save R246 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inclusive Transport: Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages offers readers profound and multifaceted insights into transportation and social equity, guiding transportation and urban studies researchers, planners, and policy makers in evaluating potential solutions to this complex issue. It considers discrimination and its societal consequences, providing a needed perspective on who is left out of transportation planning, and why. The book is systematically divided into 2 parts, Part A is problem oriented and explores the main problems to the transportation disadvantaged; accessibility and affordability. It looks at the consequences of non-accessibility, the problems non-car owners face, and the interplay between housing and transportation; Part B is policy oriented and analyses how current policies tend to forget transport disadvantages. It looks at pragmatic solutions for transport disadvantaged and ends with a design for inclusive transport, being a more radical approach combining sustainability challenges, people's behaviours and emotions, creating more just and equitable mobility.

Economic Role of Transport Infrastructure - Theory and Models (Paperback): Claudio Ferrari, Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti,... Economic Role of Transport Infrastructure - Theory and Models (Paperback)
Claudio Ferrari, Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Alessio Tei
R2,798 R2,603 Discovery Miles 26 030 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Economic Role of Transport Infrastructure: Theory and Models helps evaluate the economic effects of transport infrastructure investments within a cost-benefit framework for maximum economic impact. The book analyzes the primary empirical approaches used to gauge the economic effects of transport infrastructures, providing in-depth discussions on data issues, input-output techniques, and econometric methodologies. Users will find empirical evidence organized from a transport mode point-of-view, inspiring researchers to conduct comparative analysis for various infrastructure projects. Topics cover infrastructure's impact on economic growth using theoretical frameworks, including exogenous growth models, endogenous growth models, and new economic geography models. In addition, readers will also learn tips for conducting infrastructure impact studies and how to improve the effectiveness of infrastructural investments design.

Energy and Mobility in Smart Cities - Global perspectives on urban innovation (Hardcover): William J. Nuttall, David Gibson,... Energy and Mobility in Smart Cities - Global perspectives on urban innovation (Hardcover)
William J. Nuttall, David Gibson, Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez, Dariusz Trzmielak
R3,001 Discovery Miles 30 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Transportation Planning and Public Participation - Theory, Process, and Practice (Paperback): Ted Grossardt, Keiron Bailey Transportation Planning and Public Participation - Theory, Process, and Practice (Paperback)
Ted Grossardt, Keiron Bailey
R2,817 R2,622 Discovery Miles 26 220 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transportation Planning and Public Participation: Theory, Process, and Practice explains why, and then how, transportation professionals can treat public participation as an opportunity to improve their projects and identify problems before they do real damage. Using fundamental principles based on extensive project-based research and insights drawn from multiple disciplines, the book helps readers re-think their expectations regarding the project process. It shows how public perspectives can be productively solicited, gathered, modeled, and integrated into the planning and design process, guides project designers on how to ask the proper questions and identify strategies, and demonstrates the tradeoffs of different techniques. Readers will find an analytic and evaluation framework - along with process design guidelines - that will help improve the usefulness and applicability of public input.

Light Rail Transit Systems - 61 Lessons in Sustainable Urban Development (Paperback): Rob Van Der Bijl, Niels Van Oort, Bert... Light Rail Transit Systems - 61 Lessons in Sustainable Urban Development (Paperback)
Rob Van Der Bijl, Niels Van Oort, Bert Bukman
R2,789 R2,594 Discovery Miles 25 940 Save R195 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Light Rail Transit Systems: 61 Lessons in Sustainable Urban Development shows how to design and operate light rail to maximize its social benefits. Readers will learn how to understand the value of light rail and tactics on its effective integration into communities. It uses strong supporting evidence and theory drawn from the author's team and their extensive experience in developing new light rail systems. The book uses numerous case studies to demonstrate how key concepts can bridge the geographic limitations inherent in many transit-related discussions. In addition, users will learn how to develop important relationships with local decision-makers and communities.

Recommandations Relatives au Transport des Marchandises Dangereuses: Reglement Type (French, Paperback, 20th Revised edition):... Recommandations Relatives au Transport des Marchandises Dangereuses: Reglement Type (French, Paperback, 20th Revised edition)
United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe
R4,875 Discovery Miles 48 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Le Reglement type traite de la classification des marchandises dangereuses, de leur enumeration, de l'utilisation, de la construction, des epreuves et des agrements des emballages et des citernes mobiles, ainsi que des procedures d'expedition incluant le marquage, l'etiquetage, le placardage et la documentation. Il vise a eviter les accidents materiels et de personnes et les dommages a l'environnement en cours de transport, quel que soit le mode de transport utilise, et a assurer ainsi un niveau de securite eleve.

Transportation Policy and Economic Regulation - Essays in Honor of Theodore Keeler (Paperback): John Bitzan, James Bitzan Transportation Policy and Economic Regulation - Essays in Honor of Theodore Keeler (Paperback)
John Bitzan, James Bitzan
R2,315 R2,122 Discovery Miles 21 220 Save R193 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transportation Policy and Economic Regulation: Essays in Honor of Theodore Keeler addresses a number of today's important transportation policy issues, exploring a variety of transportation modes, and examining the policy implications of a number of alternatives. Theodore Keeler had a distinguished career in transportation economics, helping to shape regulatory policies concerning the transportation industries and assessing the appropriateness of various policies. A distinguishing feature of his work is that it always had policy implications. As a tribute to Theodore Keeler, this book examines transportation policy issues across a variety of transportation industries, including aviation, railroads, highways, motor carrier transport, automobiles, urban transit, and ocean shipping. The book evaluates the economic impact and effectiveness of various policies, employing empirical analyses and new estimation techniques, such as Bayesian analysis. The book is designed for transportation professionals and researchers, as well as transportation economics students, providing an in-depth analysis of some of today's important transportation policy issues. Policy changes established in the last 35-40 years have introduced profound changes in the business environment of the transportation industry. Past policy changes promoted the free market's role in setting prices and determining service availability. While 21st century policy has focused on a variety of other issues, such as safety, road and air congestion, productivity growth, labor relations and exhaust emission, many still promote the role of competition. In addition to examining various transportation policy issues in the U.S., the book explores some approaches to dealing with transportation issues in different parts of the world. Contemporary transportation policy debates have broadened from their initial focus of primarily examining the merits of reforming economic regulations at national levels, to now examining a variety of issues such as alternative methods of social regulation (such as safety regulation and emission controls), new approaches to changing economic regulations, the potential for reforming international regulations, and the appropriate role for government in transportation.

Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia (Hardcover): Junyi Zhang, Cheng-Min Feng Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia (Hardcover)
Junyi Zhang, Cheng-Min Feng
R6,450 Discovery Miles 64 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Asian transportation systems and services, as well as their usage, are fraught with challenges. This handbook therefore seeks to examine the possible solutions to the problems faced by the region. It illustrates the history of transportation development in Asia and provides a comprehensive overview of research on urban and intercity transport. Presenting an extensive literature review and detailed summaries of the major findings and methodologies, this book also offers suggestions for future research activities from top-level international researchers. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the topics covered include: Transportation systems across Asia; Traffic accidents; Air pollution; Land use and logistics; Transport governance. Considering the population and economic development scale, as well as the diverse cultures of Asia, the Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of transportation, Asian development and Asian Studies in general.

Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (French Edition) - Manual of Tests and Criteria (Paperback): United... Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (French Edition) - Manual of Tests and Criteria (Paperback)
United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe
R5,420 Discovery Miles 54 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Manual of Tests and Criteria contains criteria, test methods and procedures to be used for classification of dangerous goods according to the provisions of Parts 2 and 3 of the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regulations, as well as of chemicals presenting physical hazards according to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). As a consequence, it supplements also national or international regulations which are derived from the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods or the GHS. At its ninth session (7 December 2018), the Committee adopted a set of amendments to the sixth revised edition of the Manual as amended by Amendment 1. This seventh revised edition takes account of these amendments. In addition, noting that the work to facilitate the use of the Manual in the context of the GHS had been completed, the Committee considered that the reference to the “Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods” in the title of the Manual was no longer appropriate, and decided that from now on, the Manual should be entitled “Manual of Tests and Criteria"".

Infrastructure 2014 - Shaping the Competitive City (Paperback): Colin Galloway, Rachel MacCleery, Sara Hammerschmidt Infrastructure 2014 - Shaping the Competitive City (Paperback)
Colin Galloway, Rachel MacCleery, Sara Hammerschmidt
R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a global marketplace, how do real estate developers and investors who could put their money nearly anywhere think about infrastructure? And how do city leaders use infrastructure to position their cities--relative to other cities regionally, nationally, and internationally--for real estate investment and economic development? This report, based on a survey conducted in January 2014 of real estate and public leaders from around the world, explores the role that infrastructure plays in shaping the future of cities and metropolitan areas.

Trains, Buses, People 2021 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Christof Spieler Trains, Buses, People 2021 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Christof Spieler
R1,163 R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Save R128 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In some US and Canadian cities, transit has quietly been expanding and improving over the last few years, despite funding and ridership challenges. How do we assess the advances and failures of our current systems to move forward strategically and wisely? The first edition of Trains, Buses, People was dubbed "a transit wonk's bible" and guided "a smarter conversation about urban transit" in the US. This second edition is fully updated and expanded to include eight Canadian cities and two new US cities (Indianapolis and San Juan, Puerto Rico). In Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit, transit expert and "transportation hero" Christof Spieler provides a new section on inclusivity to help agencies understand how to welcome riders regardless of race, gender, income, or disability. Select cities include new maps overlaying transit and poverty data, and systems that have started construction since the first edition in 2018 have been added. Other new sections address network typologies, guideway types, station types, and fares. Spieler has spent over a decade advocating for transit as a writer, community leader, urban planner, transit board member, and enthusiast. He strongly believes that just about anyone-regardless of training or experience-can identify what makes good transit with the right information. In the fun, accessible, and visually appealing Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit, Spieler shows how cities can build successful transit. He profiles the 49 metropolitan areas in the US and eight metropolitan areas in Canada that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. Spieler ranks the best and worst systems and he offers analysis of how geography, politics, and history complicate transit planning. He shows how the unique circumstances of every city have resulted in very different transit systems. Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition is intended for non-experts-it will help any citizen, professional, or policymaker with a vested interest evaluate a transit proposal and understand what makes transit effective. It shows that it is possible, with the right tools, to build good transit.

Introduction to Senior Transportation - Enhancing Community Mobility and Transportation Services (Paperback): Helen K.... Introduction to Senior Transportation - Enhancing Community Mobility and Transportation Services (Paperback)
Helen K. Kerschner, Nina M. Silverstein
R1,668 Discovery Miles 16 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Introduction to Senior Transportation focuses on an issue that is a growing concern-the community mobility needs of older adults. Surpassing the coverage available in existing gerontology textbooks, it enables the reader to understand and appreciate the challenges faced by older adults as they make the transition from driving to using transportation options (many of which were not designed to meet their particular needs). It considers the physical and cognitive limitations of older adult passengers, the family of transportation services, the challenges providers face in meeting the assistance and support needs of senior passengers, and the transportation methods that do and do not currently meet the needs and wants of senior passengers. This textbook addresses the educational and professional development needs of faculty, students, and practitioners working in the fields of aging, aging services, and transportation. The book has been class-tested and features innovative, practical learning tools that appeal to students and practitioners. It complements any introductory course in gerontology, human development and aging, or human factors, and will enhance the curriculum of programs in the social behavioral sciences as well as traffic safety, transit engineering, and community planning.

Geographic Knowledge Infrastructure - Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities (Hardcover): Robert Laurini Geographic Knowledge Infrastructure - Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities (Hardcover)
Robert Laurini
R2,319 R2,127 Discovery Miles 21 270 Save R192 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Geographic Knowledge Engineering: Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities studies the specific nature of geographic knowledge and the structure of geographic knowledge bases. Geographic relations, ontologies, gazetteers and rules are detailed as the basic components of such bases, and these rules are defined to develop our understanding of the mechanisms of geographic reasoning. The book examines various problems linked to geovisualization, chorems, visual querying and interoperability to shape knowledge infrastructure for smart governance.

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