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Routledge Library Edtions: Global Transport Planning


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Originally published between 1935 and 1985, the 20 volumes in this set:

  • Discuss reducing the need to travel, city centre options and population densities
  • Analyse global transport planning investment and economic development
  • Examine sustainable urban development and transport
  • Scrutinise the means by which the carbon and energy costs of transport can be quantified and used in evaluation
  • Study energy consumption patterns of different settlement types and their associated travel demand patterns.
  • Measure the non-transport benefits of transport investments, with particular reference to disadvantaged sectors of society.

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The Rapid Transit Railways of the World

The Rapid Transit Railways of the World

1st Edition

By Henry F. Howson
April 30, 2023

When originally published in 1975, (here re-issuing the 3rd edition of 1985), this was the only genuinely introductory textbook to the subject of transportation planning. The introductory chapter places the issue of transport in its broader societal context, relating it to demographic, ...

The Rhine A Study in the Geography of Water Transport

The Rhine: A Study in the Geography of Water Transport

1st Edition

By R. E. H. Mellor
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1983, this volume examines one of the most long-standing major commercial water-arteries of Western and Central Europe: The Rhine. Since the mid 20th Century its importance has been given new stimulus by the intensified mobility of economic circulation generated by the EU – ...

Transport Organisation in a Great City The Case of London

Transport Organisation in a Great City: The Case of London

1st Edition

By Michael F. Collins, Timothy M. Pharoah
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1974 this book examines the problems confronting the London public transport system in the 1970s. After a brief historical introduction the book then pays particular attention to planning, capital investment, co-ordination, the relationship between transport and housing, the...

Transport Planning Vision and Practice

Transport Planning: Vision and Practice

1st Edition

By John Adams
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning. It shows how past transport policies blighted cities, suburbs and countryside alike, led to increased death and injury on the roads and offered the whole of the ...

Transport Policy in the EEC

Transport Policy in the EEC

1st Edition

By John Whitelegg
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1988, this book reviews a selection of national policies and sets them against EU (the former EEC) action or inaction to sharpen the readers’ understanding of both national and supranational policies. The book is innovative in its method of studying the subject and its focus...

Transport and Public Policy

Transport and Public Policy

1st Edition

By K.M. Gwilliam
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1964, this book assesses the role of government and its agencies in the transport sector and is aimed at economic students and those in the history transport planning. Part 1 sets up a framework of accepted economic principles concerning the efficient operation of a ...

Transport and the Public

Transport and the Public

1st Edition

By J. A. Dunnage
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1935 at a time when the First World War had brought about massive economic and social change which had repercussions for transport, this book examines all forms of transport planning in relation to economics, sociology and town planning as well as Britain’s place and ...

Transportation Networks A Quantitative Treatment

Transportation Networks: A Quantitative Treatment

1st Edition

By D. Teodorović
April 30, 2023

Originally published in 1986 and a major contribution towards improving operations within transportation systems, this book provides detailed coverage of the theory of transportation networks as a general traffic and transportation discipline. It examines some of the daily difficulties encountered ...

Routledge Library Editions: Global Transport Planning

Routledge Library Editions: Global Transport Planning

1st Edition

By Various Authors
May 12, 2021

Originally published between 1935 and 1985, the 20 volumes in this set: Discuss reducing the need to travel, city centre options and population densities Analyse global transport planning investment and economic development Examine sustainable urban development and transport Scrutinise ...

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