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  • Urban Public Transport Todayby B. Simpson

    Spon Press 1993; US$ 71.95

    This book is about how local public transport can be made a less unacceptable alternative to the private car than it is now. It is intended for officials, politicians and others interested in the land use/local transport conundrum. more...

  • Transport and Urban Developmentby David Banister

    Spon Press 1995; US$ 200.00

    This book takes an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links. more...

  • Barriers to Sustainable Transportby Clay Aiken; Roger Stough

    Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 165.00

    This book gives an international perspective on the role of institutions and regulations regarding national transport policy, local sustainable transport, international transport and freight transport. more...

  • Economics of Urban Transportationby Kenneth A. Small; Erik Verhoef

    Routledge 2006; US$ 69.95

    The book applies mutually consistent models of demand, cost, pricing, investment criteria and industrial organization, so that they can be combined to describe equilbria of the entire urban transportation system. more...

  • Urban and Regional Transportation Modelingby D.-H. Lee

    Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00

    Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts in planning, engineering, management, economics and related disciplines, provide important new contributions to this wide-ranging literature, as well as extensions of David Boyce's seminal work. This volume goes well beyond the traditional festschrift and stands as an important reference tool in its own right. Academics, researchers and students will find this comprehensive volume a valuable additional... more...

  • Travel by Designby Marlon G. Boarnet; Randall Crane

    Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 109.99

    Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design? The tremendous popularity of the "new urbanism" and "livable communities" initiatives suggests that many persons think so. As a systematic assessment of attempts to solve transportation problems through urban design, this book asks and answers three questions: Can such efforts work? Will they be put into practice? Are they a good idea?  more...

  • Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policiesby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 109.00

    This report examines the experiences of eleven European countries (including Russia) and the United States in designing and implementing sustainable urban transport policies. A series of national reports are included with a synthetic analysis that draws lessons on the design of successful policies, appropriate institutional and financial frameworks and innovative partnerships for effective consultation and committed implementation. more...

  • Insurance Statistics Yearbook 1994-2001by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 184.00

    The insurance industry is a key component of the economy by virtue of the amount of premiums it collects, the scale of its investment and, more fundamentally, the essential social and economic role it plays in covering personal and business risks. This annual publication provides major official insurance statistics for all OECD countries as well as Singapore which has an observer status to the OECD Insurance Committee. more...

  • Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policiesby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 46.00

    Hungary in its post-transition period finds itself struggling with several problems in its urban travel systems. Urban roads are increasingly crowded, and car ownership and use are rising. As in many neighbouring cities in Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary's cities are wrestling with how to maintain a highly favourable modal share for their well-developed public transport systems, while saddled with the financial burden of ageing rolling stock and infrastructure. more...

  • Interurban Road Charging for Trucks in Europeby Jose Viegas

    Elsevier 2005; US$ 95.00

    Charging for the use of transport infrastructure has very different traditions in the various modes, reflecting the different nature of their infrastructure (nodal vs. linear), but also different historical traditions of open access, system integration, etc. Since the early 90's various European Commission initiatives took on this issue, looking mainly at the road sector, where many countries had no (direct) access charges. Heavy goods vehicles were systematically identified as the primary targets for a renewed approach to this problem. What seemed an easy catch has proved to be much harder, with the various countries adopting almost exclusively national approaches, and the European institutions unable to drive the process. This book... more...