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Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 Part I. The Congestion Conundrum Chapter 3 Chapter 1. It's the Cars, Stupid! Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Congestion's Relentless Pursuit Part 5 Part II. Mobility and Global Competitiveness Chapter 6 Chapter 3. The Need for Speed Chapter 7 Chapter 4. The Apple of Automobility Chapter 8 Chapter 5. A New Approach to Congestion and Transportation Part 9 Part III. Getting from Here to There Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Eight Steps to Building Road Capacity Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Missing Link Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Taking System Management Seriously Chapter 13 Chapter 9. Transitioning Transit Part 14 Part IV. Making It Work Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Where's the Beef? Funding Twenty-first Century Mobility Chapter 16 Chapter 11. Charting the Uncharted Chapter 17 Appendix A. Transportation and Climate Change Chapter 18 Appendix B. Land Use and Transportation Choice
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sam Staley is the director of urban and land use policy at the Reason Foundation. He is also senior fellow at both the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions. His books include The Road More Traveled: Why the Congestion Crisis Matters More Than You Think, and What We Can Do About It (Rowman & Littlefield 2006) and Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land Use Planning in the 21st Century. Adrian Moore is vice president of research at Reason. He is the coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit.
Zusammenfassung
Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.
