Mobility First - A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty

Informationen zum Autor Sam Staley, Adrian Moore Klappentext 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. 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 tha... 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

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Moore, Adrian T. Moore, Moore Adrian, Sam Staley, Sam Moore Staley, Sam/ Moore Staley
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2008
• EAN: 9780742558793
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5879-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
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