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Urban Transport Planning & Management (Hardcover)
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Transport or Transportation is the movement of people and goods
from one location to another. Transportation is performed by
various modes, such as air, rail, road and water. The field can be
divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations.
Infrastructure consists of the fixed installations necessary for
transport and may be roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals
and pipelines or terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus
stations and seaports. Vehicles travelling on the network include
automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains people and aircraft. Transport
within urbanised areas presents unique problems. The density of an
urban environment can create significant levels of road traffic,
which can impact businesses and increase pollution. Parking space
is another concern, requiring the construction of large parking
garages in high density areas which could be better used for other
development. Good planning uses transit oriented development, which
attempts to place higher densities of jobs or residents near
high-volume transportation. The densities can cause traffic jams
for automobiles, yet are too low to be commercially served by
trains or light rail systems. The conventional solution is to use
buses, but these and light rail systems may fail where automobiles
and excess road network capacity are both available, achieving less
than 1% ridership. The purpose of this book is to sensitise all to
issue of Urban Transport Planning and to discuss the steps which
need to be taken by the government and all stakeholders of the
transportation. It gives a brief introduction on Transport and
Transportation, Networks and Urban Planning. It further showcases
how to develop Imported or Intelligent Urban Transport Systems,
Problems and Challenges involved in it and at the need for
Sustainable Green Urban Transport is discussed.
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