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Highway and Urban Environment
Springer 2007; US$ 189.99Today, half of the world??'s population lives in urban areas and rapid urbanisation is expected to continue in the next decades. The growth of urban areas around the world presents many challenges and needs to be supported by the development of adequate and sustainable infrastructures. The Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (Nicosia, Cyprus,... more...
Trends in the Transport Sector
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 33.00This report provides the reader with the first available internationally comparable figures on key transport trends. It analyses the transport situation in the western and eastern European countries, as well as the Baltic States and the CIS. For the first time, data are provided on transport among ECMT associated countries, Australia, Canada, Japan,... more...
Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
Springer 2009; US$ 109.99The development of US urban transportation policy illustrates the changing relationships among federal, state, and local governments. This text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to concerns over sustainable development, security, and pollution control. more...
Highway and Urban Environment
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS). HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway Pollution".... more...
Advances in City Transport
WIT Press 2005; US$ 150.00City transport system studies have been a constant challenge for engineers and planners all over the world, particularly because their decisions affect people's daily lives. The environmental impacts in urban areas due to traffic play a significant role and it could be considered that nowadays the evaluation of intervening factors in the transport... more...
Integrating Transport in the City
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2000; US$ 37.00Congestion in cities is a problem of growing importance. New infrastructure for transport however often gives rise to conflicts about how the cost of new services will be met by the public, and about how the demand for travel can be reconciled with efforts to improve the social and environmental quality of life in cities. Unless these conflicts can... more...
Trends in the Transport Sector 2010
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2010; US$ 35.00How have the passenger and freight transport sectors evolved in recent years? And what about road safety? This publication presents the most up-to-date statistics on transport markets in International Transport Forum countries for the period 1970-2008, including charts to highlight the major trends. This brochure provides the reader with first-hand... more...
Mobility and Environment
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99Mobility and Environment calls for a mobility revolution which does not simply mean taking a bus instead of a car: it implies a dramatic shift in the political debate from a technical to a political culture. The author introduces his book by disputing "non-political" Sustainable Development policies which are among the major culprits for... more...
Shift Age
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2011; US$ 16.99The Shift Age is about humanity's new ere. As the Information Age gives way to the Shift Age, we are entering a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. Originally published in 2007, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that already have reshaped and will continue to reshape our... more...
Sustainable Transport, Mobility Management and Travel Plans
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers. Marcus Enoch breaks down the travel plan concept into four axes related to its development; namely, segment,... more...









