Making urban transport sustainable
By: edited by Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson.
Contributors: Low, Nicholas.; Gleeson, Brendan, 1964-
Series: Global issues series; Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Urban transportation -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies; Sustainable development -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is urban transport sustainable? / Nicholas Low; title: Global cities, transport, energy and the future : will ecosocialization reverse the historic trends? / Peter Newman; title: The peak of oil : an economic and political turning point for the world / C.J. Campbell; title: The effect of e-commerce on transportation demand / Hartmut Stiller; title: Automotive pollution control technologies / Carlos Destefani and Elias Siores; title: Towards sustainable transportation policy in the United States : a grassroots perspective / Cameron Yee; title: Transport in the European Union : time to decide / John Whitelegg; title: Transport sustainability in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands / Emin Tengström; title: The privatization of the Japan National Railways : the myth of neo-liberal reform and spatial configurations of the rail network in Japan - a view from critical geography / Izumi Takeda and Fujio Mizuoka; title: Developing public transport in Indian cities : towards a sustainable future / Swapna Banerjee-Guha; title: Transport and land use in Chinese cities : international comparisons / Gang Hu; title: Barriers to sustainable transport in Australia / Brendan Gleeson, Carey Curtis and Nicholas Low; title: Towards sustainable urban transportation in the European Union? / Rolf Lidskog, Ingemar Elander and Pia Brundin; title: Managing transport demand in European countries / John Whitelegg with Nicholas Low; title: Lessons from Asia on sustainable urban transport / Paul Barter, Jeff Kenworthy and Felix Laube.