Human Transit How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

Name: Human Transit How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
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ISBN: 9781597269728

ISBN-10: 1597269727

ISBN-13: 9781597269728

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Jarrett Walker

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Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. InHuman Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 12/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



What Transit Is And Does



What Makes Transit Useful? Seven Demands And How Transit Serves Them



Five Paths To Confusion



Lines, Loops, And Longing



Touching The City: Stops And Stations



Peak Or All Day?



Frequency Is Freedom



The Obstacle Course: Speed, Delay, And Reliability



Density Distractions



Ridership or Coverage? The Challenge of Service Allocation



Can Fares Be Fair?



Connections or Complexity?



From Connections to Networks to Places



Be on the Way! Transit Implications of Location Choice



On the Boulevard



Take the Long View


Epilogue: Geometry, Choices, Freedom


Notes


Index