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1. Barriers to Sustainable Transport

   Institutions, Regulation and Sustainability

   Edited by Piet Rietveld, Roger R. Stough

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While institutions appear to play an important...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Unfare Solutions

   Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport

   Edited by Marcus Enoch, Peter Nijkamp, Stephen Potter, Barry Ubbels

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Unsustainable Transport

   City Transport in the New Century

   By David Banister

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links...

   Published May 2nd 2005 by Routledge
4. Transport Planning

   2nd Edition

   By David Banister

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Transport is central to many of the current planning and policy debates. Completely revised and restructured, the new edition of Transport Planning describes the evolution of transport policies and planning, linking the past with the contemporary and future debates. It is divided into two main...

   Published May 8th 2002 by Routledge
5. Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

   The Approach of Strategic Niche Management

   By Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp, Johan Schot, Bernhard Truffer

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a...

   Published February 20th 2002 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Mobility

   Transport Planning, the Environment and Public Policy

   By Geoff Vigar

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Transport issues are critically embedded in everyday life. For this very reason, ways of addressing such issues are almost always hugely politically contentious, as a quick glance at local and national media will testify. Such contentiousness is growing as ever increasing mobility for many in...

   Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
7. European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility

   By Jonas Akerman, David Banister, Karl Dreborg, Peter Nijkamp, Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser, Dominic Stead, Peter Steen

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   It is now widely accepted that transport is becoming increasingly unsustainable and that strong policy intervention is required to reduce both the growth in transport demand and the environmental costs of transport. This book challenges conventional approaches to transport by moving away from trend...

   Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge
8. Transport Planning

   In the UK, USA and Europe

   By David Banister

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   An invaluable source book, Transport Planning describes the evolution of transport planning and provides a clear account of its strengths and weaknesses, how it relates to actual policy decisions, and where it is likely to go in the future....

   Published November 24th 1993 by Routledge