Iain Docherty / Jon Shaw

Gebundenes Buch

A New Deal for Transport?

The Uk's Struggle with the Sustainable Transport Agenda

Herausgeber: Docherty, Iain; Shaw, Jon

Beschreibung

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this book offers a critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section reviews links between sustainability and transport policy, and examines the political realities surrounding the delivery of a sustainable transport agenda. The second focuses on progress in policy implementation, evaluating the extent to which Labour's own policy goals have been achieved. The final section looks at the likely trajectory of sustainable transport policy in the UK until 2010. The book includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport. Firmly rooted within an appreciation of the politics of transport, this book will make a valuable contribution to debates about future policy.

Autor

Iain Docherty is a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and an expert in urban governance, particularly the implementation of planning and transport policies. His previous publications include Making Tracks (1999), which looks at the transport planning system in major British cities. Jon Shaw is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen. His recent work has examined the privatization of British Rail and road building in England. He is the author of Competition, Regulation and the Privatisation of British Rail (2000) and co-editor of All Change: British Railway Privatisation (2000).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781405106306
• ISBN-10: 1405106301
• Artikelnr.: 21121405

Rezensionen

"should be on every consultant's, politician's andplanner's desk and in the library of every institution wheretransport is seriously studied" (Logistic and TransportFocus, March 2004)

"This book outlines the political and implementation questionsrelating to transport policy delivery in the UK. Despite goodintentions and a radical policy agenda this book reveals the LabourGovernment has failed to reduce the need to travel and to improvetravel choice. Society has become more car dependent, levels ofcongestion and unreliability have increased, and the goal ofsustainable transport has disappeared. The contributors to thisbook systematically document and assess the record of theGovernment on transport over the last six years."
--David Banister, University College London

"This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest inUK transport policy. It debunks, in forensic detail, the myth thatthe government has a coherent strategy for transport."
--Christian Wolmar, author of Broke Rails - HowPrivatisation Wrecked Britain's Railways

"This book is valuable not only to transport geographers and thegrowing literature on sustainable transport, but to anyoneinterested in how government promises fail to come to fruition."(The Geographical Journal)