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List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Foreword | |
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Introduction and Overview | |
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A Highly Mobile Planet and Its Challenges: Automobile Dependence, Equity and Inequity | |
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Sustainable transportation | |
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What is sustainable transportation about? | |
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Unsustainable transportation: The magnitude of the problem | |
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Hypermobility | |
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The problems of automobile dependence | |
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Equity and auto dependence | |
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Conclusions | |
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Automobile Cities, the Car Culture and Alternative Possibilities | |
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Introduction | |
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Walking cities, transit cities and automobile cities | |
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Additional lessons from city types | |
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Car culture | |
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Tourism: The car culture evolves into the fly-drive and recreational vehicle cultures | |
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Conclusions | |
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History of Sustainable and Unsustainable Transportation: From Walking to Wheels and Back to Walking | |
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Transportation history: The intersection of modes, infrastructure and society | |
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Transportation infrastructure: From animal paths to 'Good Roads' | |
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The rise of automobility | |
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Rail and railways | |
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Maritime and water travel | |
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Feat of flying | |
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Telecommunications and transportation | |
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Lessons for sustainable transportation | |
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Modes, Roads and Routes: Technologies, Infrastructure, Functions and Interrelatedness | |
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Introduction | |
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In-town modes: Getting to work, school, shopping, services and recreation | |
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Regional-metropolitan area modes: Long commutes, regional services, recreation, peak demand | |
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The barrier effects of different rights of way | |
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Long distance: Modes and types of travel | |
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Sustainability considerations | |
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Futuristic modes | |
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Conclusions | |
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Moving Freight, Logistics and Supply Chains in a More Sustainable Direction | |
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Introduction and overview | |
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Background to current freight movement factors | |
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Factors that shape freight movement: Supply chains, logistical systems and shipping strategies | |
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Problems of global supply chains | |
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Total logistics cost: Widgets near or widgets far? | |
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Elements aimed at increasing freight sustainability | |
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Considerations of policy change | |
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De-globalization of freight? | |
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Transportation Economics and Investment: Improving Analysis and Investment Strategies | |
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Introduction | |
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Basic concepts and principles | |
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Current evaluation methods | |
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Hidden and intentional subsidies and externalities | |
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Opportunity costs | |
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Critique of current methods with respect to sustainable outcomes | |
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Regulation versus pricing | |
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Time-area: An important tool for analysing a transportation investment | |
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Moving public policy and investment evaluation towards promoting sustainability | |
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Case studies | |
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Public Policy and Effective Citizen Participation: Leadership, Deliberation, Back-Casting, Scenarios, Visualization and Visioning | |
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The public, policy and participation | |
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Transportation policy: From mobility promotion to mobility management and sustainability | |
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The public and participation | |
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Public participation in transportation | |
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From business as usual to sustainability in transportation | |
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A New Planning Paradigm: From Integrated Planning, Policy and Mobility Management to Repair, Regeneration and Renewal | |
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Lessons learned from preceding chapters | |
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The recognition of the need for a new paradigm: The Buchanan Report and its critics | |
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Overview of the new paradigm: Integrated policy-making, planning and mobility management | |
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Towards better management of existing transportation features | |
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Integrated planning | |
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Moving from planning and policy to regeneration, repair and renewal | |
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Sustainable transportation agenda and priorities | |
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From the new paradigm to its embodiment | |
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Exemplars of Sustainable Transportation: Walking the Talk in Vancouver, Portland, Boulder, Freiburg, Seoul and Surubaya | |
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Introduction | |
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The exemplars | |
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Conclusions | |
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Conclusion: Growing More Exemplars | |
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Necessities for growing more exemplars | |
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Success builds success: The power of demonstration projects | |
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Transit Primer | |
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Sustainable Transportation Resources Toolbox | |
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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |