A New Deal for Transport?

Author: Iain Docherty
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444355511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field. Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues. Will inform debate over the future of transport policy. Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Traffic Jam

Author: Docherty, Iain
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781847420725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable transport policy 10 years after the publication of A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone.

Diverging Mobilities

Author: Danny MacKinnon
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1849505640
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
This book presents an academic investigation into the impact of devolution on the formulation and delivery of transport policy in the UK. Using interviews with key policy makers, transport providers, business organisations and user groups, this book draws upon concepts and ideas from across the social sciences to inform their analysis.

Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain

Author: Peter Headicar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134104979
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 495

Book Description
A critical overview of the nature, evolution and contemporary challenges of transport policy and planning at the national and local scale while expanding on procedural mechanisms and forging much-needed links with the related discipline of spatial planning.

Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities

Author: Roger L. Mackett
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1781904766
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
Based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010, this volume reviews the challenges facing urban transport internationally and in China.

Politics and Policy Making in the UK

Author: Paul Cairney
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529222362
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
Over the past decade, the UK has experienced major policy and policy making change. This text examines this shifting political and policy landscape while also highlighting the features of UK politics that have endured. Written by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin, leading voices in UK public policy and politics, the book combines a focus on policy making theories and concepts with the exploration of key themes and events in UK politics, including: • developing social policy in a post-pandemic world; • governing post-Brexit; and • the centrality of environmental policy. The book equips students with a robust and up-to-date understanding of UK public policy and enables them to locate this within a broader theoretical framework.

Integrated Transport

Author: Moshe Givoni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136965483
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Addressing how the integration of transportation systems could promote more sustainable travel, this book covers case studies, governmental policy and future travel usage in this comprehensive look at how multimodal travel could become more cohesive.

Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society

Author: John Urry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317095146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport' studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as 'transport' so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters mainstream social science.

Transport Matters

Author: Docherty, Iain
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447329562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
This book shows that transport matters. Comprising a series of highly accessible chapters written by respected experts, it reviews key transport issues and explains how and why effective and efficient transport is fundamental to successfully addressing all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore how we ‘do’ transport, as a result of the technologies available to us and the cultures surrounding how we use them, and examine how this has significant social, economic and environmental consequences. They also provide key recommendations for how we could do things differently to bring about a happier, healthier and more economically secure future for all of us.

Elements of Sustainable Architecture

Author: Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351256432
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
For sustainable architecture to become a reality, the way we design buildings needs to change. Many architects are concerned that sustainable technologies may interfere with a building’s aesthetic appearance, and so these are often ‘added on’ once the design process is complete. Elements of Sustainable Architecture solves this dilemma by helping students to develop the design skills they need to create sustainable buildings – ensuring that ecological considerations are applied throughout the design process. Restoring the primacy of aesthetics and creativity to sustainable design, the book focuses on strategies that have the greatest impact on building design. It also shows the influence of sustainability considerations on choices about aspects such as composition, form, space, tectonics, materials, colour, textures, proportion and position. Specifically designed to offer a new way of understanding architecture, the book: introduces students to the basic principles and methods of sustainable design; features current examples and inspiring case studies to support learning step by step; presents information in a visually appealing, intuitive, easy-to-understand way; includes over 500 high-quality colour diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs. A clear, visual introduction to creating aesthetically beautiful and sustainable buildings, this is essential reading for students in sustainable architecture courses.