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Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation, Second Edition highlights the many sustainability solutions and alternatives to fossil fuel usage including renewable energy and efficiency in mass transit, as well as the conservation of materials, water, and air and the overall health of communities. This new edition will update the reader on developments in the field since 2017 and advancements in sustainability solutions. It explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation, and expansion of a mass transportation system.
The book covers the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building, and retrofitting. It explores the mitigation measures that reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation, and more. It covers energy, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic pollution and other significant environmental impacts, recycling, and more. It also examines organizational best practices and environmental regulatory constraints and life cycle assessments, describing which sustainable elements can be added while rehabilitating or expanding a mass transportation infrastructure or ancillary facility. The book concludes with a look at forthcoming sustainable initiatives that will enhance mass transit systems.
List of contents
1. The Sustainable Mass Transit Revolution
2. Relevance of Mass Transit
3. Environmental Sustainability Professionals
4. Mass Transit Infrastructure, Facilities and Vehicles
5. Energy Use in Mass Transit
6. Environmental Impacts of Mass Transit Operations
7. Sustainable Elements in Train Systems
8. Sustainable Elements of Bus Networks
9. Pilot Sustainability Initiatives in Mass Transit
10. Environmental Mitigation of Mass Transit Construction Projects
11. Environmental Management Systems and Mass Transit
12. Challenges and Opportunities for Continuous Sustainable Success
13. Reimagining Sustainable Mass Transit
Case Studies of Mass Transit Agencies
Appendix A - Glossary of Terms
Appendix B - Acronyms
About the author
Thomas Abdallah, P.E. LEED AP, is Vice President Design Services and Chief Environmental Engineer for the New York City MTA’s Construction and Development (MTA C&D) agency. Thomas holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. He is responsible to provide expert environmental engineering services for all MTA capital projects and has over 35 years of experience as an environmental engineer. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in the Sustainability Management graduate program. He has appeared on Discovery Channel, PBS, NPR and appeared in an episode of History Channel’s Modern Marvels – Moving America.
