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Transportation & Land Use Innovations - When you can't pave your way out of congestion (Paperback)
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Transportation & Land Use Innovations - When you can't pave your way out of congestion (Paperback)
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As our overstressed highways become increasingly snarled, America's
love affair with the automobile continues to exact a frightening
toll on our roadways, environment, and quality of life. This
handbook, written especially for nontechnical readers, shows that
you don't have to be a transportation engineer to effectively
combat traffic congestion and automobile dependence. General
planners and decision makers can set a new course by adopting
broader transportation performance standards that incorporate
mobility, livability, accessibility, and sustainability. Ewing
demonstrates how manageable, affordable, and incremental changes in
traffic patterns, road and intersection design, transit schedules,
walkways and bikeways, and other factors can shrink vehicle miles
and vehicle hours traveled. He uses examples from Florida and
elsewhere to show how to implement complementary short- and
long-term strategies tailored to your community's travel
environments that will signifigantly reduce auto travel and its
associated ills. Ewing emphasizes five tools: land planning, travel
demand management, transportation system management, enhanced
transit service, and pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly design. He
demonstrates how proactive land planning, with an eye to mitigating
the demand for auto travel, is the key element in a successful
long-term approach. The book is extensively illustrated with
easy-to-understand graphs, charts, drawings, and other visual aids.
Generous endnotes will assist transportation professionals who may
want to dig deeper.
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