The Transport System and Transport Policy

An Introduction

Bert Van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2012
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85793-689-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Transport impacts on people and businesses in many different ways, and presents some of the key problems that decision-makers need to address. This comprehensive textbook introduces the transport system in a holistic and multidisciplinary way, bringing together the myriad and often conflicting components of transport.

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Transport impacts on people and businesses in many different ways, and presents some of the key problems that decision-makers need to address. This comprehensive textbook introduces the transport system in a holistic and multidisciplinary way, bringing together the myriad components of transport.This textbook is written for an international readership of undergraduate and postgraduate students in transport and related subjects, as well as for professionals and policy decision-makers across both public and private sectors.

Key features include:



Discussion of the importance of transport accessibility and the impacts of transport on the environment and safety
Policy issues relating to all of the discussed issues and prescribed future options.
Transport evaluation methods and modelling approaches.
Examples to highlight the linkages between components of the transport system for example infrastructures, land-use, vehicle technologies - and the relevance of these linkages for decision making.

Contributors include: J.A. Annema, D. Banister, M. Dijst, K. Geurs, S. Hoogendoorn, V. Knoop, V. Marchau, P. Rietveld, K. Ruijgrok, L. Steg, L. Tavasszy, R. van den Brink, T. van der Hoorn, J. van der Waard, B. van Wee, W. Walker, L. Walta, F. Wegman

Autor

Edited by Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Jan Anne Annema, Associate Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography and the Environment and Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK

Inhalt

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction
Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema and David Banister

2. The Traffic and Transport System and Effects on Accessibility, the Environment and Safety: An Introduction
Bert van Wee

PART I: THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM
3. Individual Needs, Opportunities and Travel Behaviour: A Multidisciplinary Perspective based on Psychology, Economics and Geography
Martin Dijst, Piet Rietveld and Linda Steg

4. Freight Transport Demand: Indicators, Determinants and Drivers of Change
Lóránt Tavasszy and Kees Ruijgrok

5. Land Use and Transport
Bert van Wee

6. Transport Resistance Factors: Time, Money and Effort
Jan Anne Annema

7. Traffic Flow Theory and Modeling
Serge Hoogendoorn and Victor Knoop

PART II: IMPACTS OF THE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
8. Transport Technology to Reduce Transport’s Negative Impacts
Jan Anne Annema, Robert van den Brink and Leonie Walta

9. Accessibility: Perspectives, Measures and Applications
Karst Geurs and Bert van Wee

10. Transport and the Environment
Bert van Wee, David Banister, Jan Anne Annema and Karst Geurs

11. Traffic Safety
Fred Wegman

PART III: TRANSPORT POLICY AND RESEARCH
12. Transport Policy
Jan Anne Annema

13. Transport Futures Research
Vincent Marchan, Jan Anne Annema, Warren Walker and Jan van der Waard

14. Appraisal Methods for Transport Policy
Piet Rietveld

15. Transportation Models and their Applications
Toon van der Hoorn and Bert van Wee

Index

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Cheltenham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 169 x 244 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• ISBN-10: 0-85793-689-1 / 0857936891
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85793-689-9 / 9780857936899
• Zustand: Neuware