By David Rooney

This book provides a political history of urban traffic congestion in the twentieth century, and explores how and why experts from a range of professional disciplines have attempted to solve what they have called ‘the traffic problem’. It draws on case studies of historical traffic projects in…

Hardback – 2018-08-13
Routledge
Transport and Mobility

Edited by Tanu Priya Uteng, Karen Lucas

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) have complex and unequal impacts on different…

Hardback – 2017-12-01
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Transport and Mobility

By Stewart Barr, Jan Prillwitz, Tim Ryley, Gareth Shaw

Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it argues that geographers have a key role to play in shaping academic and policy debates on…

Hardback – 2017-10-16
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Transport and Mobility

Edited by José M. de Ureña

High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities. These implications open up new spatial planning possibilities such as…

Paperback – 2017-01-31
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Transport and Mobility

By Erling Holden

Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy. There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient conventional transport technologies, the promotion of efficient and affordable public transport systems…

Paperback – 2016-11-30
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Transport and Mobility

Edited by James Wang, Daniel Olivier, Theo Notteboom, Brian Slack

Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide. International in scope, this volume provides multidisciplinary insights into the role port cities adopt in dealing with global supply chains. Throughout the book, concepts of strategic…

Paperback – 2016-11-28
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Transport and Mobility

By Markus Hesse

The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike. However, much analysis of freight transportation and the flow of goods into, out of and within urban areas focuses on functional, business-related…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
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Transport and Mobility

By Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull, Mags Adams

For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
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Transport and Mobility

By Leigh Glover

City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport. Economic, technological, city and transport planning and human behaviour solutions are often hampered by ineffective implementation. So attention is now turning to institutional,…

Hardback – 2016-11-07
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Transport and Mobility

Edited by Andrew R. Goetz, Lucy Budd

Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth…

Paperback – 2016-09-09
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Transport and Mobility

By Shishir Mathur

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism, which involves the identification and capture of a public infrastructure-led increase in property…

Paperback – 2016-09-09
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Transport and Mobility

By Jason Monios, Rickard Bergqvist

Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities. This book fills that gap by establishing a governance framework for situating analysis of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle. A version of the product…

Hardback – 2016-06-08
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Transport and Mobility