Urban transport in the developing world
Subtitle: a handbook of policy and practice
By: edited by Harry T. Dimitriou, Ralph Gakenheimer
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9781847202055
Subjects: Urban transportation policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Transport and city development : understanding the fundamentals  -- Harry T. Dimitriou; title: Land use and transport in rapidly motorizing cities : contexts of controversy  -- Ralph Gakenheimer; title: An international comparative perspective on fast-rising motorization and automobile dependence  -- Jeffrey Kenworthy; title: The future of energy for urban transport  -- Andreas Schäfer; title: Environmental challenges of urban transport : the impacts of motorization  -- John Ernst; title: Economic fall-out of failing urban transport systems : an institutional analysis  -- Elliott Sclar and Julie Touber; title: Non-motorized urban transport as neglected modes  -- V. Setty Pendakur; title: Poverty and urban mobility : diagnosis toward a new understanding  -- Xavier Godard; title: Institutional and political support for urban transport  -- Edward Dotson; title: Environmental evaluation in urban transport  -- Michael Replogle; title: Equity evaluation of urban transport  -- Eduardo A. Vasconcellos; title: Use and abuse of economic appraisal of urban transport projects  -- Walter Hook; title: Road crashes and low-income cities : impacts and options  -- Any Aeron-Thomas and Goff Jacobs; title: Bus rapid transit : a review of recent advances  -- Lloyd Wright; title: Rail rapid transit advances  -- Roger J. Allport; title: Informal public transport : a global perspective  -- Robert Cervero and Aaron Golub; title: Options for travel demand management : traffic bans versus pricing  -- Anjali Mahendra; title: Mainstreaming sustainable urban transport : putting the pieces together  -- Christopher Zegras; title: Conclusions : emergent crucial themes -- Harry T. Dimitrou and Ralph Gakenheimer.