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Barriers to Sustainable Transportby Clay Aiken; Roger Stough
Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 165.00This 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...
Safe and Sustainable Transport: A Matter of Quality Assuranceby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 84.00Road safety is generally a mixture of three components, namely, the road, the vehicle and the driver, or, as also referred to by the ECMT, the infrastructure, the vehicle and human behaviour. Promotion of road safety is more and more possible only through a larger scope of interest -- environment, sustainability, and quality of life. more...
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policiesby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 46.00Hungary 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...
Fuel Cells: A Technology Forecastby John Vanston; Henry Elliott
TSTC Publishing 2003; US$ 25.00The fuel cell industry is now beginning to acheive its promise and this report is designed to provide insights and data useful in identifying and initiating new technology-related programs in the field. more...
Making Urban Transport Sustainableby Nicholas Low; Brendan Gleeson
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 110.00This text looks at the future of urban transport. Money is being poured into roads, railways and airports at a time when the global atmosphere is threatened and oil production has reached its peak. If world environments and societies are to be sustained, urban transport must change. more...
Decoupling the Environmental Impacts of Transport from Economic Growthby OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 49.00Economic growth requires an efficient transport system, and transport activity continues to cause large adverse impacts on the environment, human health and the economy. But is a negative impact of transport on the environment a necessary consequence of economic growth? This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of recent research on the links between transport demand and economic growth. It provides an in-depth discussion of environmental and economic effects of a package of instruments for decoupling environmentally impacts of transport from economic growth -- and how to overcome obstacles to their implementation. This book illustrates that decoupling the environmental impacts of transport from economic growth is achievable, through... more...
The Ecology of Transportationby John Davenport; Julia L. Davenport
Springer 2006; US$ 159.00Human transport by land, sea and air has increased through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological change. This book brings together international experts from a variety of disciplines to review the ecological effects and their causes in terms of road, rail, ship and aircraft transport. more...
Oil Dependenceby OECD Publishing; International Transport Forum
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 105.00Oil consumption is increasingly concentrated in transport and relatively limited fluctuations in transport demand can have increasingly significant effects on oil prices. This Round Table assesses the policy instruments available to address oil security and climate change and examines their interaction with measures to manage congestion and mitigate local air pollution. A number of incompatibilities and trade-offs are identified underlining the importance of integrated policy making. The report includes an examination of the factors that drive oil prices in the short and long term and a discussion of the outlook for oil supply. more...
Freight Transport and the Environmentby M. Kroon; R. Smit; J. van Ham
Elsevier 1991; US$ 206.00In the past few decades, freight transport on roads has grown considerably because of the quick and flexible movement of goods. With an expanding market due to product specialization, there will be an increase in the demand for freight transport. There are however, several negative implications for the environment (air and noise pollution), human health and other more far-reaching phenomena such as acidification, photochemical air pollution and the greenhouse effect. Solutions to this problem are probed in this book including the stimulation of technological breakthroughs, new transport policies and better traffic management. The book provides a survey of present and potential approaches to reconcile the strong need for increasing transport... more...
Biofuels for Road Transportby Mark Huijbregts
Springer 2009; US$ 129.00Offers a review of the history, the status and perspectives for biofuels used in road transport, across the full 'seed-to-wheel' life cycle of these fuels. This title is suitable for professional engineers, researchers and postgraduate students involved in biofuels, renewable energy (including bioenergy) and the automotive industry. more...









