New Deal for Transport? The UK's Struggle with the Sustainable Transport Agenda

Name: New Deal for Transport? The UK's Struggle with the Sustainable Transport Agenda
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ISBN: 9781405106313

ISBN-10: 140510631X

ISBN-13: 9781405106313

Edition: 2003

Authors: Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw

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Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this book offers a critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation.The volume is divided into three sections. The first section reviews links between sustainability and transport policy, and examines the political realities surrounding the delivery of a sustainable transport agenda. The second focuses on progress in policy implementation, evaluating the extent to which Labour's own policy goals have been achieved. The final section looks at the likely trajectory of sustainable transport policy in the UK until 2010. The book includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for…

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List price: $57.25
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.80" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Series Editors' Preface


Notes on Contributors


Foreword


Preface


List of Abbreviations



Policy and Politics



Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour's Dilemma




Devolution and Sustainable Transport




Local Transport Planning under Labour




Progress in Policy Implementation



Roads and Traffic Congestion Policies: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back




A Railway Renaissance?




Light Rail and the London Underground




A 'Thoroughbred' in the Making? The Bus Industry under Labour




Ubiquitous, Everyday Walking and Cycling: The Acid Test of a Sustainable Transport Policy




Air Transport Policy: Reconciling Growth and Sustainability?




The Future



Towards a Genuinely Sustainable Transport Agenda for the United Kingdom



Index