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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Transportation? | |
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| The Big Picture: Mobility vs. Accessibility | |
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| Structure of This Book | |
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| Sustainable Transportation | |
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| What Is Sustainability? | |
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| Transportation and Public Health | |
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| The Human Body | |
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| Does This McMansion Make Me Look Fat? | |
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| Danger, Will Robinson! | |
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| Anger, Will Robinson! | |
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| Health and Equity | |
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| Driving and Social Health | |
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| Transportation and Trust | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The City of the Future | |
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| Yesterday's Tomorrowland | |
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| Imagining the Sustainable City of the Future | |
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| Streets | |
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| Conceptualizing Streets | |
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| Principles of Street Design | |
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| Pedestrians | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Pedestrian Planning Principles | |
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| Pedestrian Planning Tools | |
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| Pedestrian Design Tools | |
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| Measuring Pedestrian Success | |
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| Case Study: Marin County Safe Routes to Schools | |
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| Bicycles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Invest in Cycling? | |
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| Increasing Cycling | |
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| Key Cycling Principles | |
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| Design So That Everyone Will Enjoy Biking | |
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| Measuring Bicycle Success | |
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| Further Information | |
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| Transit | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transit Modes | |
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| Case Study: Los Angeles Metro Rapid | |
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| Case Study: Portland Streetcar | |
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| Case Study: San Diego Trolley | |
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| Design for Transit | |
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| Measuring Success | |
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| Case Study: Boulder, Colorado, Community Transit Network | |
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| Transit Planning Resources | |
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| Motor Vehicles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Designing for Cars | |
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| Design Manuals That Build upon Context | |
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| Design Guidance | |
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| Modeling Traffi c | |
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| Freeways | |
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| Parking | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Parking Is Destiny | |
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| Parking Economics | |
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| 175 Parking Tools | |
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| Parking Management Principles | |
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| Top Ten Parking Management Strategies | |
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| Carsharing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of Carsharing | |
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| Impacts | |
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| Where Carsharing Is Most Successful | |
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| Public Policies That Support Carsharing | |
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| Municipal Fleets | |
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| Jump-Starting a Program | |
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| Stations and Station Areas | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Multimodal Access | |
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| Case Study: WMATA's Orange Line | |
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| Station Components | |
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| Case Study: BART Station Replacement Parking | |
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| Transportation Demand Management | |
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| What Is Traffic Congestion and Why Does It Happen? | |
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| Planning for Reduced Traffic | |
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| Traffic Reduction: A How-To Guide | |
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| Measuring Success | |
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| Definitions | |
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| How Performance Measures Are Used | |
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| How Performance Measures Are Misused | |
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| Measuring Success for Multiple Modes | |
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| Using Performance Measures to Balance Modes | |
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| Citywide Transportation System Measurements | |
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| Evaluating Project Alternatives | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| For More Information | |
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| Useful Online Resources | |
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| Required Reading | |
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| Useful Tools | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |