An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation

The newest edition of this essential, multi-authored work reflects a new sustainable transportation planning paradigm. It explores the concepts of sustainable development and sustainable transportation, describes practical techniques for comprehensive evaluation, provides tools for multi-modal transport planning, and presents innovative mobility management solutions to transportation problems. This text reflects a fundamental change in transportation decision making. It focuses on accessibility rather than mobility, emphasizes the need to expand the range of options and impacts considered in analysis, and provides practical tools to allow planners, policy makers and the general public to determine the best solution to the transportation problems facing a community. In this expanded and updated edition the authors have included: * Fully updated data relating to a various transportation factors rates and extensiveness of motor vehicles and relations between transportation and land use data, * A new chapter on public transportation including comparative analyses of transit investments, including transit-oriented development (TOD) and transit supportive policies, * A new section on Active Transportation such as Walk to School, Safe Routes, and Healthy Design, * And more content on parking and related policies. Featuring extensive international examples and case-studies, textboxes, graphics, recommended reading and end of chapter questions, the authors draw on considerable teaching and researching experience to present a ground-breaking and authoritative text on sustainable transport. Students of various disciplines, planners, policymakers and concerned citizens will find many of its provocative ideas and approaches of considerable value as they engage in the processes of understanding and changing transportation towards greater sustainability.