ECONOMIA DOS TRANSPORTES

Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes by Clarence Eckerson, Jr. on July 15, 2010 | 80,950 Plays Email Share While Streetfilms was in Copenhagen for the Velo-City 2010 conference, of course we wanted to showcase its biking greatness.  But we were also looking to take a different perspective then all the myriad other videos out there.  Since there were an abundance of advocates, planners, and city transportation officials attending from the U.S. and Canada, we thought it'd be awesome to get their reactions to the city's built environment and compare to bicycling conditions in their own cities. If you've never seen footage of the Copenhagen people riding bikes during rush hour - get ready - it's quite a site, as nearly 38% of all transportation trips in Copenhagen are done by bike.  With plenty of safe, bicycle infrastructure (including hundreds of miles of physically separated cycletracks) its no wonder that you see all kinds of people on bikes everywhere.  55% of all riders are female, and you see kids as young as 3 or 4 riding with packs of adults. Much thanks to the nearly two dozen folks who talked to us for this piece.  You'll hear astute reflections from folks like Jeff Mapes (author of "Pedaling Revolution"), Martha Roskowski (Program Manager, GO Boulder), Andy Clarke (President, League of American Bicyclists), Andy Thornley (Program Director, San Francisco Bike Coalition) and Tim Blumenthal (President, Bikes Belong) and Yvonne Bambrick (Executive Director, Toronto's Cyclists Union) just to name drop a few of the megastars.

Rethinking the Automobile (with Mark Gorton) by Clarence Eckerson, Jr. on March 15, 2012 | 1,057 Plays Email Share For more than 100 years New York City government policy has prioritized the needs of the automobile over the needs of any other mode of transport. Working under the faulty assumption that more car traffic would improve business, planners and engineers have systematically made our streets more dangerous and less livable. As a result, even the idea that a street could truly be a "place" - a shared space for human interaction and play - has been almost completely destroyed. During his decade long effort to understand and improve the streets of New York City, entrepreneur and livable streets advocate Mark Gorton has gathered together a compelling set of examples of how transportation policy impacts the quality of our daily lives. Mark is regularly invited to speak in public about these issues. In his current presentation "Rethinking the Automobile" Mark explores the history of autocentric planning and considers how New York and other cities can change. Filled with ample video footage of dozens of Streetfilms, we've worked with Mark to create a version of the presentation here. As the founder of Streetfilms, Streetsblog, OpenPlans, and the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign, Gorton has been on the front lines of the battle to transform New York's streets. But Mark is not done fighting. He contends that the recent improvements that have been implemented in New York should only be considered as the "tip of the iceberg" and that a truly comprehensive set of changes are still necessary. For more on Mark's continued efforts to make our world more equitable, livable, and safe visit www.rethinktheauto.org

How spatial and transport planning affects car and public transport ownership. A panel data simulation. The impact of car parking policies on greenhouse gas emissions The dynamics of car ownership in EU countries: a comparison based on the European household panel survey A wide-scale safety evaluation of traffic calming measures in residential areas Making parking management an effective tool in travel planning Carfree, low car - what's the difference?

The future of residential parking in the Netherlands: the impact of increasing car ownership on the character of residential areas Making parking management an effective tool in travel planning Workplace parking levies: the Macbeth of the demand management world? "E-PARKING" - user-friendly e-commerce to optimise parking space Impact of maximum parking standards including inward investment implications Parking policy to improve accessibility in industrial areas.

Impact of maximum parking standards including inward investment implications Offices moving down town - effects on travel behaviour Traffic Demand Management in Action Workplace parking levies: the Macbeth of the demand management world? "E-PARKING" - user-friendly e-commerce to optimise parking space The Management of City Centre Parking Traffic: Drivers' Information Needs and the Effectiveness of Parking Guidance and Information Systems

elated Papers The future of residential parking in the Netherlands: the impact of increasing car ownership on the character of residential areas The role of parking standards in sustainable development Workplace parking levies: the Macbeth of the demand management world? Distribution and re-distribution in e-commerce Stochastic modals for the simulation of parking choices - a non network approach Making parking management an effective tool in travel planning

The role of parking standards in sustainable development The CIVITAS initiative - strategies for sustainable urban transport "E-PARKING" - user-friendly e-commerce to optimise parking space Making parking management an effective tool in travel planning On-street parking - an opportunity for private finance Environmental management: the key to the alleviation of airport capacity

Seminar Papers Access to Health The application of accessibility planning to develop a locational policy for the West Midlands Evaluation of transport accessibility for elderly and disabled people: A proposal for an activity-based quality of life approach A healthy food physical accessibility standard and its implications for transport, spatial planning and public health. HSTAT - Towards a better understanding of the impact of accessibility on healthcare reconfiguration policies Health and transport - two sides of the same coin Planning for better access to health Assessing the health impact of local traffic policy plans Health impacts of childrens' traffic exposure Incorporating health and social benefits with user benefits in the valuation of urban realm improvements Development of an urban railway network to improve passenger health

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this textbook. Table of Contents Chapter 1 - Transportation and Geography Chapter 2 - Transportation and the Spatial Structure Chapter 3 - Transportation Modes Chapter 4 - Transport Terminals Chapter 5 - International Trade and Freight Distribution Chapter 6 - Urban Transportation Chapter 7 - Transportation and the Economy Chapter 8 - Transport, Energy and Environment Chapter 9 - Transport Planning and Policy The second edition of The Geography of transport systems maintains the overall structure of its predecessor, with chapters dealing with specific conceptual dimensions and methodologies, but the contents have been revised and updated. It provides material about transportation issues to practitioners, policymakers, educators, researchers, students, a nd individual learners. It includes a wide variety of media elements such as maps, figures, GIS-T datatsets, and PowerPoint presentations. The second edition also offers new topics and approaches that have emerged as critical issues in contemporary transport systems, including security, energy, supply chain management and GIS-T. Relevant case studies have also been included to underline real world issues related to transport geography.

Welcome to the proceedings repository of the European Transport Conference. Each year, more than 200 papers are presented making this an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. The repository contains the papers from each conference held since 1996. Copies of papers presented from 1973 to 1995 are available in book form from PTRC Education and Research Services Ltd: www.ptrc-training.co.uk. European Transport Conference 2010 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 11/10/2010 - 13/10/2010European Transport Conference 2009 Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, The Netherlands 05/10/2009 - 07/10/2009European Transport Conference 2008 Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, The Netherlands 06/10/2008 - 08/10/2008European Transport Conference 2007 Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, The Netherlands 17/10/2007 - 19/10/2007European Transport Conference 2006 Strasbourg, France 18/09/2006 - 20/09/2006European Transport Conference 2005 Strasbourg, France 03/10/2005 - 05/10/2005European Transport Conference 2004 Strasbourg, France 04/10/2004 - 06/10/2004European Transport Conference 2003 Strasbourg, France 08/10/2003 - 10/10/2003European Transport Conference 2002 Homerton College, Cambridge 09/09/2002 - 11/09/2002European Transport Conference 2001 10/09/2001 - 12/09/2001European Transport Conference 2000 Homerton College, Cambridge 01/01/2000 - 01/01/2000European Transport Conference 1999 Cambridge 01/01/1999 - 01/01/1999European Transport Conference 1998 01/01/1998 - 01/01/1998European Transport Conference 1997 01/01/1997 - 01/01/1997European Transport Conference 1996 01/01/1996 - 01/01/1996

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Marc Levinson 56 Resenhas Princeton University Press, 07/01/2008 - 400 páginas In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and

Following the successful launch of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN) on the 13th January 2012 in London, the LCEDN will be holding its first major international conference at Loughborough University in the UK on the 4-5th April 2012. The theme of the conference is 'Energy and Development: Learning From The Past' and thanks to support from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the EPSRC we are privileged to be hosting a range of international speakers from across Asia, Africa and Latin America in the specific fields of solar power and bio-energy around which this conference is based; we are also hosting a parallel online event to which we offer an open invite to academics and post-graduates (in the UK initially) who may be interested but would be unable to attend in person. The two-day programme will be divided into sections on: i)      The global context of energy for development ii)     The historical experience of solar power in the global south iii)    The historical experience of bio-energy in the global south iv)     Looking forward through the prisms of: a.      Major Challenges b.      New Technologies c.      Demand Management This conference is the first of three planned for this year so please register your interest even if you are unable to make this one or your specialization lies somewhere else. The conference is directed at any academics/practitioners who are involved in low carbon transitions and energy for development - we are specifically interested in bridging the gap between technologists, engineers and the social sciences and welcome interest from any discipline so long only as they have an interest in energy and development; this could for instance include gender, legal/policy, solar, bio-energy, sociology, anthropology (not an exclusive list). If you would like to attend the conference, please go to the LCEDN website (http://www.lcedn.com/) and click on the '

Transportation Services Index and the Economy by Peg Young, Ph.D.; Ken Notis; Gary Feuerberg, Ph.D.; and Long Nguyen PDF Summary The March 2005 release of the Transportation Services Index (TSI), an economic measure of freight and passenger movements,1 marked the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS') entry into the company of federal statistical agencies that produce monthly U.S. economic indicators. The TSI consists of three component indexes: a freight index, a passenger index, and a combined (or total) index. Figure 1 shows the freight and passenger indexes as recently displayed on the BTS website. The TSI is the broadest monthly measure of U.S. domestic transportation services and, as such, provides the best current measure available of these services. As an index, the TSI reflects real monthly changes in freight and passenger services in the United States. After development of the TSI, followed by additional research, it became clear the TSI moved in conjunction with other indicators of the national economy. Cycles of various kinds, depths, and durations occur frequently in the U.S. economy. Of these, the business cycles of recession and expansion, and the growth cycle are of particular interest to economists. The TSI, as presently published on the BTS website, spans the time period from 1990 to the present and covers two recessions. But, extending the TSI back to 1979 allows coverage of four recessions2 and numerous growth cycles. By comparing the turning points in the extended TSI with other economic data series, it is possible to ascertain whether and how transportation services relate to movement in the overall economy. Quantitatively exploring the relationships between the turning points of the TSI and measures of the broader economy reveal some interesting results. One finding is that the freight component of the TSI, which encompasses five modes of transportation, shows a strong leading relationship to the economy. When the accelerations and

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Urban transport in the developing world: perspectives from the first decade of the new millenium Harry T. Dimitriou, Ralph Gakenheimer 0 Resenhas Edward Elgar Publishing, 30/03/2011 - 631 páginas The twenty thematic chapters in this book provide a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportunities of urban transport in the developing world, set against the challenges of sustainable development. The contributors expertly set the international context of transport policy-making and planning for developing cities and present a critical review of recent developments that have taken place and which offer lessons for the future. The special features that distinguish this book are: its multiple institutional perspectives on transport in the urban development of developing cities: its efforts to link sustainability with urban transport and other development concerns; and its understanding of the consequences of globalism in choices and obligations for urban transport. This Handbook will prove invaluable for professional practitioners and academics engaged in and concerned with the future of movement in cities of the developing world. It will also be of interest to students of urban transport and city planning, particularly those from developing countries. Politicians, policy-makers and international development agencies and investors, as well as those working for international non-government organizations wishing to familiarize themselves with the mounting transportation challenges of developing cities, will also find this book a source of inspiration. « Menos    Ver uma prévia deste livro » O que estão dizendo - Escrever uma resenha Não encontramos nenhuma resenha nos lugares comuns. Livros relacionados ‹ Sustainability and cities Peter Newman, Jeffrey R. Kenworthy Urban transport planning Harry T. Dimitriou Cities on the move World Bank, K. M. Gwilliam Urban transport development Emin Tengström A developmental approach to urb

Parking Library Case Studies Cities (40 files) These articles look at specific issues in various cities and possible solutions... Demand Management (25 files) Planning can be the Parking Department's most important tool in the constant quest for a measured response to ever-increasing demand. Design and Construction (4 files) Safety, efficiency and ecology inform the planning and design process - and help ensure that construction meets the goals of the community. Parking and Environment (5 files) How can parking contribute to the global push for cleaner and greener life-styles and systems? Parking Characteristics (17 files) What are the current parameters that define parking issues in the local, national and global context? Parking Research (38 files) Research lies at the core of our decision-making...most modern issues are too complex to understand with only anecdotal evidence. Research provides the hard evidence to inform our theories. Parking Technology (19 files) Modern parking theory and practice utilizes a plethora of equipment and software that was non-existent twenty or thirty years ago. What is available and where can it take us? Policy and Administration (30 files) No amount of technology is effective without informed policies; no amount of informed policies are effective without administration and enforcement. WPS Parking Puzzles (18 files) Every year the conferees get together in groups to tackle a practical Parking Puzzle that relates to parking issues in the host city. These are some of the solutions...