The Transport System and Transport Policy: An Introduction - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0857936891 ISBN 13: 9780857936899

Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2012

Riassunto

Transport impacts on people and businesses in many different ways, and presents some of the key problems that decision-makers need to address. This comprehensive textbook introduces the transport system in a holistic and multidisciplinary way, bringing together the myriad components of transport.

This textbook is written for an international readership of undergraduate and postgraduate students in transport and related subjects, as well as for professionals and policy decision-makers across both public and private sectors.

Key features include:

• Discussion of the importance of transport accessibility and the impacts of transport on the environment and safety
• Policy issues relating to all of the discussed issues and prescribed future options.
• Transport evaluation methods and modelling approaches.
• Examples to highlight the linkages between components of the transport system for example infrastructures, land-use, vehicle technologies - and the relevance of these linkages for decision making.

Contributors include: J.A. Annema, D. Banister, M. Dijst, K. Geurs, S. Hoogendoorn, V. Knoop, V. Marchau, P. Rietveld, K. Ruijgrok, L. Steg, L. Tavasszy, R. van den Brink, T. van der Hoorn, J. van der Waard, B. van Wee, W. Walker, L. Walta, F. Wegman

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Informazioni sull?autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edward Elgar Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0857936891
• ISBN 13: 9780857936899
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 399
• Redattore: Van Wee Bert, Annema Jan Anne, Banister David
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