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Policy Analysis of Transport Networks Imprint: Ashgate Illustrations: Includes 44 b&w illustrations Published: January 2007 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 332 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-4547-4 Price : £65.00 » Website price: £58.50 BL Reference: 388 LoC Control No: 2006928102   Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Aura Reggiani, University of Bologna, Italy and Piet Rietveld, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Series : Transport and Mobility Interdisciplinary contributors from across Europe and the USA join together in this book to provide a timely overview of the latest theories and policies related to transport networks. They cover topical issues such as: environmental benefits of substitution of aviation by high speed trains; incident management; impacts of aviation deregulation; and time savings in freight transport. The book also breaks new ground on the development of new methods of cost benefit analysis and other approaches in policy analysis. Contents: Preface; New trends in policy making for transport and regional network integration, Marina van Geenhuizen, Aura Reggiani and Piet Rietveld. Part I Policy Analysis in the Transport Field: Equity issues in the evaluation of transport policies and transport infrastructure projects, Piet Rietveld, Jan Rouwendal and Arno van der Vlist; Economic impact assessment for analysing the viability of regional airports in Norway, Svein Brathen and Knut S. Eriksen; Modelling the short-term impacts of a nuclear accident on transportation flows, Peder Axensten; Models and realities: choosing transit projects for New York City, Robert Paaswell and Joseph Berechman; A framework for identifying and qualifying uncertainty in policy making: the case of intelligent transport systems, Marina van Geenhuizen and Wil Thissen; An evaluation of benefits from aircraft and high-speed train substitution, Mo

Urban transport XII: urban transport and the environment in the 21st century C. A. Brebbia, V. Dolezel 0 Resenhas WIT, 2006 - 935 páginas Transportation in cities, with its related environmental and social concerns, continues to be a topic of the utmost priority for urban authorities and central governments around the world. This is reflected in the proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, stressing the continuous steady growth and research into the urban transport systems control aspects, information and simulation systems. The papers included in the volume cover a wide variety of topics, such as: Transport sustainability; Urban transport planning and management; Transport modelling and simulation; Transport logistics and operations research; Transport security and safety; Transport technology; Land use and transport integration; Environmental and ecological considerations; Intelligent transport systems; Public transport systems; Information systems and GPS applications and Road

Pricing in road transport: a multi-disciplinary perspective E. T. Verhoef 0 Resenhas Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008 - 327 páginas Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book shows how a multi-disciplinary approach may lead to new types of analysis and insights, contributing to a better understanding of the intricacies of transport pricing and eventually to a potentially more effective and acceptable design of such policies. The study addresses important policy and research themes such as the possible motives for introducing road transport pricing and potential conflicts between these motives, behavioural responses to transport pricing for households and firms, the modelling of transport pricing, and the acceptability of pricing. Studying road transport pricing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will be of great interest to transport policymakers and advisors, transport academics and consultants and students in transport studies.

Fifty years of transport policy: successes, failures and new challenges European Conference of Ministers of Transport, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 0 Resenhas OECD Publishing, 2003 - 115 páginas Transport policy may well have reached a turning point. It will not be possible to manage projected traffic growth using traditional methods that concentrate on increasing infrastructure capacity. New incentives, new pricing, and new instruments to better manage investment and demand are all required. In order to meet the emerging challenges, this publication outlines a number of strategic directions for transport policy in the coming years. In addition, the publication contains a summary paper presented to Ministers at the 87th ministerial session which also marked the ECMT 50th anniversary. This publication contains the following papers: Rail Policy and Rail Subsidies - An Endless History with Weak Results By Professor Gerd Aberle European Transport Policy and the Position of Inland Navigation By Professor Gerd Aberle Assessing our Expertise By Professor Alain Bonnafous Competition vs. Regulation in Transport - The Appraisal of Past Policies and Lessons for the Future By Professor George A. Giannopoulos How Easy is it to Change Behaviour? By Professor Phil Goodwin Trends in Transport Investment Funding: Past, Present and Future By Mrs Eva Molnar Main Transport Policy Issues in Transitional Economies in Central and Eastern Europe By Professor Wojciech Suchorzewski Transport Policy Development in Europe 1950-2020 By Professor José Manuel Viegas

Research Papers 220)     Cowen, Deborah and Vanessa Parlette Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Social Infrastructure in Scarborough, June 2011, 86pp. ISSN 0316-0068; ISBN 978-0-7727-1482-4. 219)     Jim Simmons, Larry Bourne, and Shizue Kamikihara, The Changing Economy of Urban Neighbourhoods: An Exploration of Place of Work Data for the Greater Toronto Region, December 2009, 44 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1477-0 218)     Greg Suttor, Rental Paths from Postwar to Present: Canada Compared, December 2009, 59 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1476-3 217)     Michael Noble, Lovely Spaces in Unknown Places: Creative City Building in Toronto's Inner Suburbs, March 2009, 50 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1474-9 216)     Jason Hackworth, Habitat for Humanity and the Neoliberal Media: A Comparison of News Coverage in Canada and the United States, March 2009, 39 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1473-2 215)     David Wachsmuth, From Abandonment to Affordable Housing: Policy Options for Addressing Toronto's Abandonment Problem, November 2008, 48 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1472-5 214)     Katharine N. Rankin, with the assistance of Jim Delaney, Courtney Hood, Justin Ngan and Sabin Ninglekhu, Commercial Change in Toronto's West-Central Neighbourhoods, September 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-7727-1471-8 213)     Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, J. David Hulchanski, Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness and Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, and Canadian-Born Families, July 2008, 89 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-7727-1469-5 212)     Duncan Maclennan, Housing for the Toronto Economy, July 2008, 72 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1468-8 211)     R. Alan Walks and Richard Maaranen, The Timing, Patterning, & Forms of Gentrification & Neighbourhood Change in Montreal, Toronto, & Vancouver, 1961 to 2001, May 2008, 109 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1465-7 210)     Jason Hackworth, Neoliberalism, Social Welfare, and the Politics of Faith in the United States, June 2007, 36 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-145

Urban transport and the environment: an international perspective WCTR Society, Institute for Transport Policy Studies, Unʼyu Seisaku Kenkyū Kikō 0 Resenhas Emerald Group Publishing, 2004 - 515 páginas The damaging environmental impact of urban transport, as recognised by the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. At the same time, urban transport has been causing serious local environmental problems, particularly in developing countries. This book was commissioned with the aim of helping to develop solutions by sharing experience from around the world. Four extensive chapters by leading researchers give an overview of the problem, analyse structures and trends in urban transportation, list the various ways transport affects the environment, and critically review the whole range of policy countermeasures available. The second half of the volume is given over to a uniquely valuable collection of case studies of 21 metropolises, carefully selected to provide a cross-section of different types of city from across the developing and developed world. The relevant characteristics of these cities are systematically described: socio-economic background; local condition of transport and the environment; policy planning, implementation, and evaluation, all with concrete examples. Key data are then presented in charts with a common structure to facilitate comparisons between cities.

Pode-se admitir hoje que a associação dos portos com o desenvolvimento  regional é uma das nossas heranças colonial, quando cada uma das provincias (maritimas), a exemplo de Paraiba, Pernanbuco, Alagoas, Bahia escova sua produção por meio dos seus sistemas de transporte provincial (ferrovia e porto).Hoje a associação é, pelo menos para determinados tipos de cargas, insustentável,  isto porque o transporte conteinerizado (container transport)  que cresce acima da média revela-se "um dos tipos de carga menos cativo" estimulando a concorrência portuária, ou seja, a ampliação ou redução dos hinterland portuarios,  a partir da adoção de um conjunto de medidas políticas portuárias focada na facilitação do acesso ao transporte maritimo a ao seu interland. Este artigo apresenta um modelo que toma como referencia a cadeia logística para  calcular o impacto das politicas que visam  facilitar (e reduzir os custos) da conexão dos portos com as embarcações e com seu  hinteland.O resultado pode ser considerado um subsidio ao formulador de uma  estratégia portuária, chamando atenção que a competitividade de um porto  não se reduz a suas tarifas aparentes (o custo do serviço portuário), mas a custo real no qual se incorpora as tarifas, mas o custo indireto expresso, de um lado na conexão com seu hinterland (bacia de cargas)  e, do outro lado, nos custos de de armazenamento diretos (as despesas do armaazenamento no sentido estrito) e indiretos (os custos do capital imobilizado nas mercadorias armazenadas.

A Mobile Century? Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century Imprint: Ashgate Published: December 2005 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 270 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-4181-0 Price : £60.00 » Website price: £54.00 BL Reference: 388.4'0941'0904 LoC Control No: 2005927751   Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend Colin G. Pooley, Lancaster University, UK, Jean Turnbull, Lancaster University, UK and Mags Adams, University of Salford, UK Series : Transport and Mobility For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have changed over time. This book provides a detailed empirical analysis of mobility change in Britain over the twentieth century. Beginning with an explanatory theoretical overview, setting the UK case studies within an international context, the book then analyses changes in the journey to school, the journey to work, and travelling for pleasure. It also looks at the ways in which changes in mobility have interacted with changes in the family life cycle and assesses the impact of new transport technologies on everyday mobility. It concludes by examining the implications of past mobility change for contemporary transport policy. Contents: The significance of travel and mobility; Mobility and society; Reconstructing mobilities; Changes in everyday mobility: an overview; Travelling to school; Travelling to work; Travel for leisure and pleasure: children playing and hanging around; Travel for leisure and pleasure: entertainment, sport, shopping and holidays; Mobility, family and the life course; Transport policies, technologies and the experience of everyday mobility; The lessons of history: mobility change and contemporary transport policy; Bibliography; Index. About the A

Mechanisms of Growth Today, there are four primary mechanisms that have fueled the current growth pattern within our towns and neighborhoods. None of these are financially sustainable. 1. Transfer payments between governments. Nearly every city in America is reliant, to one degree or another, on intergovernmental subsidies to finance infrastructure. Whether the money comes through an established program, an earmark or a block grant, the result is the same: a land use pattern that does not reflect local economic realities. Local values and priorities are distorted when there is little pressure to generate a return on public infrastructure investments. The result: inefficient growth patterns that cannot be financially sustained. At the same time our infrastructure maintenance liabilities are ballooning, our federal and state legislatures are struggling to reconcile huge budget shortfalls. Even if it were good policy, the reality is that we do not have the ability to build Strong Towns with intergovernmental transfer payments as they are currently designed. 2. Demand-driven transportation spending. Transportation improvements today are made primarily to increase safety and reduce congestion. After two generations of trying to build our way out of congestion, we not only have massive maintenance liabilities but congestion is actually worse. An approach to transportation spending that pits federal and state priorities (transportation) against local priorities (land use) when we should be linking them is a recipe for waste and inefficiency. To add to this disconnect, federal transportation policy actually rewards states with additional funds for building additional roads, regardless of their efficiency. Political meddling, often in the form of earmarks, further distorts transportation spending by prioritizing improvements based on political clout, not overall return on the public investment.  3. Debt, both public and private. Where we once paid for infrastructure

The City as a Terminal The Urban Context of Logistics and Freight Transport Imprint: Ashgate Published: November 2008 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 224 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-0913-1 Price : £55.00 » Website price: £49.50 BL Reference: 388.3'3 LoC Control No: 2008025990   Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend Markus Hesse, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Series : Transport and Mobility The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike. However, much analysis of freight transportation and the flow of goods into, out of and within urban areas focuses on functional, business-related approaches. This book examines the interrelationship between logistics development on one hand and urban development and geographical issues, such as land use and location, on the other. Avoiding certain one-dimensional views on 'logistics impacts on the city', it discloses the complex interaction of the logistics system with the entire urban environment. It also bridges the gap between recent geographical research into new production systems and (post)modern consumption patterns. Illustrated with case studies from the United States, Germany, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, it examines issues such as: the historical nexus between urban areas and logistics; current urban developments with regards to goods distribution; city-region related characteristics of freight flows; locational dynamics; and specific freight related urban problems and conflicts. Contents: Preface; Introduction: the city as terminal. Logistics and freight distribution in an urban context; The city - from market place to terminal; Technocapitalism and logistics transformation; Geographies of distribution; The Berlin-Brandenburg case study; The Northern California case study; Logistics and freight distribution from a policy and planning perspective; Stability and change: lo

Advances in city transport: case studies S. Basbas 0 Resenhas WIT Press, 2006 - 193 páginas Highlighting the highly topical subject of transport and the environment and the closely related field of town planning, this book contains chapters concerning developments in the transportation systems of various cities all over the world. These include Singapore, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Bilbao, Eindhoven, Adelaide, Bangalore and Thessaloniki. The studies featured will be of interest to postgraduate researchers in transport and the environment, engineers and planners working within transport and environment ministries and local authorities, and consultants.

Unsustainable transport: city transport in the new century David Banister 0 Resenhas Taylor & Francis, 2005 - 292 páginas The book addresses the linkages between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture through issues relating to transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organizational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores the linkages in more detail at the city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, and the role that technology can play. The final part looks for inspiration to events in developing countries and the means by which we can move from the unsustainable present to a more sustainable future.

Exclente "exposição de motivos" de um Programa de Trabalho focado na interface da Economica Regional com a Economia dos Transporte. Parte dos elementos essenciais para caraterização da problemática e chega aos questões relevantes: a construção de um conhecimento que ancore a formulação de uma politica estrategica, a partir de uma pesquisa, fundada na distinção entre nodes and linkages, e focada ina dinamica da gestão i) das regiões metropolitanas e suas infraestruura porturarias. com enfase nas estrutras de interação nas cidades, regiões e portos, tais como clusters e modelos de governança e, na gestão ii) das cadeias logisticas e sistemas de transportes focado na criação e regulação dos mercados em transporte e logisitca, a exemplo da (des)regulação do mercado de trasnportes, ascensão dos provedores de serviços logisticos, novos mercados para financiamento privado de infraestrutura e a estrutura no mercado de navegação. Em resumo, sistematização de uma agenda que o GT Transporte e Logstica do Grupo da Piedade, tem como telos.

L'interrégionalité s'inscrit dans la réflexion actuelle en géographie sur les rapports entre échelle et territoire. Elle apparaît d'abord, comme un échelon supplémentaire entre régions, nations et Europe, en recouvrant des types d'espace très divers. Elle désigne autant une interrégionalité de proximité, entre des régions proches, qu'une interrégionalité élargie, désignant de vastes ensembles regroupant plusieurs régions, parfois éloignées les unes des autres. En France, cette interrégionalité est fortement associée à la politique de décentralisation. Elle témoigne des recompositions territoriales actuelles et de la formation de nouveaux territoires dans un contexte de renforcement des compétences régionales et européennes. Associer interrégionalité et réseaux de transport invite donc à s'interroger sur les articulations scalaires entre réseaux et territoires, en tenant compte des effets de distance, de la structure des réseaux, des mobilités et de l'évolution des réglementations liées à de nouvelles répartitions des compétences territoriales, des jeux des acteurs et des modes de gouvernante des territoires. Ce rapport entre interrégionalité et réseaux de transport est ainsi à mettre en relation avec les dynamiques actuelles des systèmes territoriaux, qu'ils s'inscrivent dans le cadre de politiques publiques ou qu'ils soient le fait de logiques spatiales engendrées par la mondialisation. Ainsi, l'interrégionalité est autant considérée en terme de crises liées à des transferts difficiles de responsabilité (transport interrégional ou national) qu'en terme de développement permettant la constitution de nouveaux réseaux. La question du rapport entre ces recompositions territoriales et les dynamiques des réseaux de transports a été divisée entre cinq axes de réflexion : première partie - interrégionalité, continuité et discontinuité territoriale. Deuxième partie - interrégionalité, continuité et di

Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism Lessons from South Africa Imprint: Ashgate Illustrations: Includes 168 b&w illustrations Published: July 2004 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 180 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-4169-8 Price : £60.00 » Website price: £54.00 BL Reference: 388.4'0968 LoC Control No: 2003063936   Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend David Dewar and Fabio Todeschini, University of Cape Town, South Africa Series : Transport and Mobility For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific 'silos'. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies. Contents: Defining the problem: the objectives of this book; Setting the scene; Approaches to settlement-making: locating the concepts of structure and space; Movement as an element of urban structure and urban space; Movement in urban structure: the case of South Africa; Movement as an element of urban space; Movement in space: the case of South Africa; Conclusion; References; Appendix A: excerpt from the Transport Planning Act; Appendix B: further readings consulted. About the Author: Both at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, David Dewar is Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and is registered with the South African Council of Town and Regional Planners; Fabio Todeschini is Professor and Convenor of the

Land use and transport: European research towards integrated policies Stephen Marshall, David Banister 0 Resenhas Elsevier, 2007 - 393 páginas This is a text/reference, written in a style accessible to non-specialists as well as academic researchers. It shows the inter-relationships between transport and land use planning, emphasising the nature of their integration, and showing benefits of integration. It demonstrates research findings and draws conclusions for application to policy and practice. It is coherent and comprehensive and is based on a major set of recently completed European research projects (PLUME). *Focuses on the relationships between transport and land use planning *Addresses general topics and specialist topics before providing a synthesis to the discussion *Information gathered from the PLUME project

International perspectives on road pricing: report of the Committee for the International Symposium on Road Pricing, November 19-22, 2003, Key Biscayne, Florida National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, United States. Federal Highway Administration, Florida. Dept. of Transportation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 0 Resenhas Transportation Research Board, 2005 - 98 páginas TRB Conference Proceedings 34: International Perspectives on Road Pricing is the proceedings of the International Symposium on Road Pricing held on November 19-22, 2003, in Key Biscayne, Florida. The event was a collaborative effort of TRB, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the federal Highway Administration. The report includes two commissioned resource papers that examine the evolution of congestion pricing and the state of the practice in road pricing outside the United States. The proceedings also explore pricing successes and the challenges that have accompanied specific projects' implementation, as well as the potential evolution of road pricing in the future.

Este trabalho de pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar e discutir a expansão dos projetos de transportes na região Centro-Oeste e sua relação com a expansão agrícola. A pesquisa foi feita através de consultas em revistas especializadas, e textos de pesquisa econômica. O Brasil apresenta sérios problemas de infra-estrutura que prejudicam sua capacidade produtiva e comprometem seu crescimento econômico. Atualmente, um dos gargalos mais perceptíveis que impedem o crescimento da economia é a necessidade de ampliação e modernização dos meios de transportes de cargas para atender com qualidade a produção industrial e agrícola. Não é suficiente obter recordes consecutivos na produção de grãos e minérios se não há recursos adequados para fazer o escoamento em tempo hábil aos portos e consumidores. Há mais de 50 anos, o Brasil priorizou as rodovias e hoje sofre com a falta de recursos financeiros para manter as estradas e ampliar as rotas para as regiões afastadas dos principais centros econômicos. Mesmo após as privatizações, as rodovias continuam precárias e sem perspectivas de melhoramentos a curto prazo. O transporte rodoviário tem suas vantagens, mas seus custos de manutenção e ampliação são mais elevados, principalmente se forem considerados as despesas para policiamento, engenharia de tráfego, além dos problemas ambientais causados pelo desmatamento e poluição nas grandes cidades. As ferrovias tem maior capacidade de carga, contemplam as necessidades continentais do Brasil, e seu custo de manutenção é reduzido. As ferrovias foram esquecidas por quase meio século e os 30.000 quilômetros de estradas de ferro em funcionamento são insuficientes para atender a produção nacional. A malha ferroviária atual transporta aproximadamente 23% da produção do país a custos mais acessíveis. Após as privatizações os novos investimentos do setor privado geraram um aumento de 94% na produtividade do sistema na última década.

O custo social (custo privado + custo externo) dos trasnportes urbano é uma informação extremamente relevante, já que nela que se fundamenta as decisões governamentais sobre dos diferentes modos de transportes. Esta é uma questão que mobiliza a Sara na elaboração do artigo na disciplina Economia dos Trasnportes. No Brasil temos muito o que fazer neste âmbito.

European Conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems - Valencia, Spain, 14-15 June 2012Due to the non-existence of a specific conference focused on safety and usability of vehicle information and communication technologies, the HUMANIST NoE decided in 2008 to set up a European conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems. The aim is to gather the community of Human Factors researchers, to offer an overview of the current developments and trends and to create an area for discussions and debates on these topics.  This "Third European Conference on Human Centered Design for Intelligent Transport Systems"will be held on 14 and 15 June 2012 in Valencia, Spain, and will address the following topics: Effects of ITS on driver behaviour and interaction with the systems;Tools and methodologies for safety and usability assessement;Modelling of drivers' behaviour for ITS design;Diversity and specificity of road user groups;Drivers' needs and acceptance of assistance functions;Green ITS to meet new driver needs;Field Operational Tests and Naturalistic Driving Studies;ITS and traffic management;Human-Centered System Integration and Product Maturity;Generic User Interfaces for Assistance Systems.