During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers. This timely text provides a framework for developing systems that move people and products efficiently while minimizing damage to the local and global environment. The book offers a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the problems surrounding current transportation systems: climate change, urban air pollution, diminishing petroleum reserves, safety issues, and congestion. It explores the full range of possible solutions, including applications of pricing, planning, policy, education, and technology. Numerous figures, tables, and examples are featured, with a primary focus on North America.
Tabella dei contenuti
I. The Nature of the Problem 1. The Problem of Sustainability in the Transport Sector2. The Historical Problem of Sustainability in the Transport Sector3. Climate Change4. Urban Air Quality5. The Finite Nature of Petroleum Reserves6. Motor Vehicle Crashes and Safety7. Congestion and Sustainability II. Possible Solutions 8. An Introduction to the Range of Possible Solutions Pricing9. The Full Costs of Transportation10. Pricing and Taxation Planning11. Urban Form: Planning for Sustainability12. Indicator-Based Planning Policy13. A Continuum of Policies14. The Special Role of Speed and Speed Limit Policies15. National Policy Solutions16. Sustainable Travel Demand Management Education17. Educating for Change Technology18. Information and Communication Technologies, and E-Commerce19. The Potential of Alternative Fuels20. New Vehicles, Fuel Cells, and Catalytic Converters21. Intelligent Transport Systems III. Summary and Conclusions22. Summary, Conclusions, and the Current Status of Sustainable Transport
Circa l’autore
William R. Black, Ph D, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has written numerous articles in the area of sustainable transportation and planning. Dr. Black was North American chairman of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Science Foundation Conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He served as coordinator of STAR, an NSF-funded thematic network on sustainable transport analysis and research, and as North American coordinator of STELLA, a thematic network on transatlantic sustainable transport research funded by the European Commission and the NSF. He has served on numerous Transportation Research Board (TRB) and National Research Council panels and committees. Dr. Black has been recognized for his contributions to sustainable transportation by the Chinese Institute for Transportation.
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