The Geography of Urban Transportation, Third Edition
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
978-1-59385-055-5 (ISBN)
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In this classic text and professional resource, leading geographers and urban planners present the foundational concepts and methodological tools that readers need to understand and engage with today's pressing policy issues. Covered are such key topics as passenger and freight dynamics in the American metropolis; the urban transportation planning process, including the use of GIS; and questions related to public transit, land use, energy, equity, environmental impacts, and more. The book features more than 100 maps, charts, and photographs.
Susan Hanson is the Jan and Larry Landry University Professor and a Professor and Director of the School of Geography at Clark University. She is an urban geographer with teaching and research interests in gender and economy, the geography of everyday life, and sustainability. Dr. Hanson has been editor of three geography journals -- Economic Geography, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and The Professional Geographer -- and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. She is currently on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Hanson also is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the Association of American Geographers. Genevieve Giuliano is Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California and Director of the METRANS Transportation Center. Her research interests center on transportation policy and on relationships between land use and transportation. Dr. Giuliano is a former editor of Urban Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. She is a former faculty fellow of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and a former member of the Executive Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Dr. Giuliano also is a member and past chair of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board and is a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
I. Setting the Scene
1. The Context of Urban Travel: Concepts and Recent Trends, Susan Hanson
2. City Interactions: The Dynamics of Passenger and Freight Flows, Thomas R. Leinbach
3. Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis, Peter O. Muller
4. Impact of Information Technologies, Donald G. Janelle
II. Planning for Movement within Cities
5. The Urban Transportation Planning Process, Robert A. Johnston
6. Reflections on the Planning Process, Martin Wachs
7. GIS in Urban-Regional Transportation Planning, Timothy L. Nyerges
III. Policy Issues
8. Public Transportation, John Pucher
9. Land Use Impacts of Transportation Investments Highway and Transit, Genevieve Guiliano
10. Transportation and Energy, David L. Greene
11. The Geography of Urban Transportation Finance, Brian D. Taylor
12. Social and Environmental Justice Issues in Urban Transportation, Devajyoti Deka
13. Transportaton and the Environment, Christine Bae
14. Managing the Auto, Genevieve Giuliano and Susan Hanson
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.9.2004 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59385-055-7 / 1593850557 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59385-055-5 / 9781593850555 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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