Urban Access for the 21st Century

Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure
Herausgeber: Sclar, Elliott; Wolmar, Christian; Lönnroth, Måns

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sets out a roadmap to show how small changes can mean positive developments in urban transport for truly accessible cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415720496
• ISBN-10: 0415720494
• Artikelnr.: 39356089

Autorenporträt

Elliott D. Sclar, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He is also Professor of Urban Planning in Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, an economist and an urban planner. Måns Lönnroth, member of the VREF, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Christian Wolmar, author and journalist based in London, specializing in transport. He contributes regularly to national newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian as well as to specialist magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Challenge of Financing Urban Access 2. Towards a
Political-Economics of Finance for Urban Access 3. Social Inequalities in
Urban Access: Better Ways of Assessing Transport Improvements 4. Access as
a Social Good and as an Economic Good: Is There a Need for a Paradigm
Shift? 5. Opportunities for Transport Financing through New Technologies:
State of the Art and Research Needs 6. Assessing the Diversity of Schemes
for Financing Urban Access and Mobility 7. Public Transport - The Challenge
of Formal and Informal Systems 8. Reflections on the Usefulness of
Accessibility as a Lens 9. Accessibility and Transportation Funding 10.
Technology and Information Technology: Living with and Paying for
Sustainable Access