Schiller, Preston L.

Introduction to sustainable transportation : policy, planning and implementation / Preston L. Schiller, Eric C. Bruun and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy. - London: Washington : Earthscan, 2010. - xxvi, 342 p.

1.A highly mobile planet and its challenges: automobile dependency, equity and inequity --
2.Automobile cities, the car culture and alternative possibilities --
3.History of sustainable and unsustainable transportation: from walking to wheels and back to walking --
4.Modes, roads, and routes: technologies, infrastructure, functions and interrelatedness --
5.Moving freight, logistics and supply chains in a more sustainable direction --
6.Transportation economics and investment: improving analysis and investment strategies --
7. Public policy and effective citizen participation: leadership, deliberation, backcasting, scenarios, visualization, and visioning --
8.A new planning paradigm: from integrated planning, policy and mobility management to repair, regeneration and renewal -- Exemplars of sustainable transportation: walking the talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya -- Conclusion: growing more exemplars.

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Transportation--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.

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