The Transport System and Transport Policy

An Introduction, Second Edition

Bert Van Wee, Jan A. Annema, David Banister, Baiba Pudāne (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

402 Seiten

2023 | 2nd edition
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80220-676-0 (ISBN)

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This extensively updated textbook introduces the transport system and its societal impacts in a holistic and multidisciplinary way. A timely second edition, it includes new analyses of travel behaviour and the transport system’s impacts on health and well-being.

Key Features:

Guidance for transport policy evaluation methods and modelling approaches

Systematic approach to analysing higher-order impacts of interventions in the transport system

Discussion of topical issues in transport policy, including analysis of current transport innovations

The use of case studies to highlight interconnected aspects of the transport system and their relevance to decision making

Exploration of the role of transport systems in providing accessibility and their impact on the environment, safety, health and well-being

International in scope, this textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying disciplines such as transport policy and transport geography. It will also be useful to the professionals and policymakers in the transport industry.

Edited by Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Jan Anne Annema, Associate Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 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 and Baiba Pudāne, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Contents:

Preface xxii
Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister, and Baiba Pudāne
1 Introduction to The Transport System and Transport Policy 1
Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister and Baiba Pudāne
2 The transport system and its effects on accessibility, the
environment, safety, health and well-being: an introduction 3
Bert van Wee

PART I THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM
3 Individual needs, opportunities and travel behaviour:
a multidisciplinary perspective based on psychology, economics
and geography 17
Martin Dijst, Piet Rietveld, Linda Steg, Janet Veldstra and Erik Verhoef
4 Freight transport: indicators, determinants and drivers of change 50
Lóránt Tavasszy and Kees Ruijgrok
5 Land use and transport 76
Bert van Wee
6 Transport resistance factors: time, money and effort 96
Jan Anne Annema
7 Traffic flow theory and modelling 119
Victor L. Knoop and Serge Hoogendoorn
8 Transport technology 154
Jan Anne Annema

PART II IMPACTS OF THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM
9 Accessibility: perspectives, measures and applications 179
Karst Geurs and Bert van Wee
10 Transport and the environment 201
Natalia Barbour
11 Traffic safety 229
Fred Wegman and Paul Schepers
12 Travel behaviour and health 259
Bert van Wee and Dick Ettema

PART III TRANSPORT POLICY AND RESEARCH
13 Transport policy 275
Jan Anne Annema
14 Transport futures research 294
Vincent Marchau, Warren Walker and Jan Anne Annema
15 Appraisal methods for transport policy 313
Niek Mouter and Piet Rietveld
16 Transportation models and their applications 333
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia and Bert van Wee

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Transportrecht
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-80220-676-0 / 1802206760
ISBN-13	978-1-80220-676-0 / 9781802206760
Zustand	Neuware