Sustainable transportation planning : tools for creating vibrant healthy and resilient communities Written in clear easy to follow language this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities economic development social equity and ecological sustainability goals. The book begins with criticism of conventional transportation practice noting how the professions usual tools have exacerbated rather than solved the congestion problems they were designed to address. More importantly past practice has made transportation the biggest single producer of CO2 emissions in North America As transportations related disciplines of urban planning architecture landscape architecture urban economics and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear easy to follow language this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities economic development social equity and ecological sustainability goals. Starting with detailed advice for improving each mode of transportation the book offers guidance on balancing the needs of each mode against each other whether on a downtown street or a small town neighborhood or a regional network