000 02837 a2200169 4500
020 _a9781847202055
082 _a388.4
_bDIM
100 _aDimitriou, Harry T. Ed.
_98977
245 _aUrban transport in the developing world
_ba handbook of policy and practice
260 _c2011
_aCheltenham
_bEdward Elgar Publishing Limited
300 _axxiii,631p.
500 _aContents Notes on editors vii Notes on contributors ix Preface by Harry T. Dimitriou and Ralph Gakenheimer xvi Acknowledgements xxiv PARTI SETTING THE CONTEXT 1Introduction 3 Ralph Gakenheimer and Harry T. Dimitriou 2 Transport and city development: understanding the fundamentals 8 Harry T. Dimitriou 3 Land use and transport in rapidly motorizing cities: contexts of controversy 40 Ralph Gakenheimer PART II IDENTIFYING THE ISSUES " An international comparative perspective on fast-rising motorization and automobile dependence 7l Jeffrey Kenworthy 5 The future of energy for urban transport 113 Andreas Schafer 6 Environmental challenges of urban transport: the impacts of motorization 137 John Ernst 7 Economic fall-out of failing urban transport systems: an institutional analysis 174 Elliott Sclar and Julie Touber 8 Non-motorized urban transport as neglected modes 203 V. Setty Pendakur 9 Poverty and urban mobility: diagnosis toward a new understanding 232 Xavier Godard 10 Institutional and political support for urban transport 262 Edward Dot son PART III NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 11 Environmental evaluation in urban transport 305 Michael Replogle 12 Equity evaluation of urban transport 332 Eduardo A. Vasconcellos 13 Use and abuse of economic appraisal of urban transport Projects 359 Walter Hook 14 Road crashes and low-income cities: impacts and options 386 Amy Aeron-Thomas and Goff Jacobs 15 Bus rapid transit: a review of recent advances 421 Lloyd Wright 16 Rail rapid transit advances 456 Roger J. Allport 17 Informal public transport: a global perspective 488 Robert Cervero and Aaron Golub 18 Options for travel demand management: traffic bans versus pricing 519 Anjali Mahendra 19 Mainstreaming sustainable urban transport: putting the pieces together 548 Christopher Zegras 20 Conclusions: emergent crucial themes 589 Harry T. Dimitriou and Ralph Gakenheimer Name Index 605 Subject Index 611
700 _aGakenheimer, Ralph Ed.
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890 _aUnited Kingdom
891 _aFP
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