1st Edition
Urban Access for the 21st Century Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure
1. Introduction: The Challenge of Financing Urban Access (Elliott Sclar and Måns Lönnroth) 2. Towards a Political-Economics of Finance for Urban Access (Elliott Sclar) 3. Social Inequalities in Urban Access: Better Ways of Assessing Transport Improvements (Sylvie Fol and Caroline Gallez) 4. Access as a Social Good and as an Economic Good: Is There a Need for a Paradigm Shift? (Rosário Macário) 5. Opportunities for Transport Financing Through New Technologies: State of the Art and Research Needs (Jonas Eliasson) 6. Assessing the Diversity of Schemes for Financing Urban Access and Mobility (José M. Viegas) 7. Public Transport: The Challenge of Formal and Informal Systems (Eduardo A. Vasconcellos) 8. Reflections on the Usefulness of Accessibility as a Lens (Frederick Salvucci) 9. Accessibility and Transportation Funding (Frederick Salvucci) 10. Technology and Information Technology: Living with and Paying for Sustainable Access (Robert E Paaswel)
Biography
Elliott D. Sclar, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He is also Professor of Urban Planning in Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, an economist and an urban planner.
Måns Lönnroth, member of the VREF, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Christian Wolmar, author and journalist based in London, specializing in transport. He contributes regularly to national newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian as well as to specialist magazines.
