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This is the only current and in print book covering the full field of transit systems and technology. Beginning with a history of transit and its role in urban development, the book proceeds to define relevant terms and concepts, and then present detailed coverage of all urban transit modes and the most efficient system designs for each. Including coverage of such integral subjects as travel time, vehicle propulsion, system integration, fully supported with equations and analytical methods, this book is the primary resource for students of transit as well as those professionals who design and operate these key pieces of urban infrastructure.
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The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement
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Modern transportation systems have pervasive and far-reaching effects on society and the environment. Mobility and other benefits of modern transportation arrive with many, serious undesired consequences:deaths and injuries in transport accidents, pollution of air,water and groundwater,noise congestion, greenhouse gas emissions etc. Governments and markets both play critical roles in providing infrastructure and operating and policing transportation systems. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorized, the transportation community is searching for transportation systems that are both efficient and sustainable.In this book leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning transportation's full costs and benefits.
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* An ideal textbook for Urban Transportation Planning
* Incorporates major legislation (ISTEA, CAAA) and other developments that affect transportation planning
* Presented in a convenient tabular form
* Contains effective figures and tables
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State of the art transportation planning text.......2002-06-05
Urban Transportation Planning is well written and well organized. Complicated modeling techniques are explained in detail. The process flow charts and bubble graphs simplify complex relationships between transportation, land use, planning and politics. Strengths and weaknesses of different modeling strategies are discussed in detail.
Extensive chapter bibliographies are useful for students and professionals seeking detailed discussions of topics covered in the text.
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An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities, 1960-1990
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A large, reliable digest of urban data about land use, transportation, and energy use, An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities, 19601990, provides government agencies, consulting firms, academics, and community and conservation groups with the kind of detailed information that they need to improve their planning, teaching, and researching in these fields. The book sets out detailed data on land use, private and public transportation, energy, environment, and economics in forty-six metropolitan areas in the United States, Australia, Canada, western Europe, and Asia for 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990.
An International Sourcebook provides a multitude of tables and diagrams so readers can quickly access key data on their own cities and easily gain a global perspective on how different cities perform according to various factors. For cities that are not included in the book, a comprehensive methodology chapter is provided, describing how to develop comparative data for other locations.
Each city represented in the book has its own set of color maps showing the various territorial boundaries and shape of the metropolitan area, the urbanized areas of the region, the freeway system and all the fixed track rail and bus transit systems. These maps--together with the detailed data, correlation analyses between city characteristics, and key trends between 1980 and 1990--make the book an essential tool for policy development, presentations, teaching, and further research.
Outstanding in its detail and its extensive coverage of cities, An International Sourcebook is a valuable source of information for anyone concerned with the impact of the automobile on urban environments and the role of planning in helping shape better cities.
The cities covered are: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington (U.S.); Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney (Australia); Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg (Canada); Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich (Europe); Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo (wealthy Asian cities); Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Surabaya (developing Asian cities).
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Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Urbanists and smart growth proponents have embraced the concept and interest in TOD is growing, both in the United States and around the world.
New Transit Town brings together leading experts in planning, transportation, and sustainable design -- including Scott Bernstein, Peter Calthorpe, Jim Daisa, Sharon Feigon, Ellen Greenberg, David Hoyt, Dennis Leach, and Shelley Poticha -- to examine the first generation of TOD projects and derive lessons for the next generation. It offers topic chapters that provide detailed discussion of key issues along with case studies that present an in-depth look at specific projects. Topics examined include:
- the history of projects and the appeal of this form of development
- a taxonomy of TOD projects appropriate for different contexts and scales
- the planning, policy and regulatory framework of "successful" projects
- obstacles to financing and strategies for overcoming those obstacles
- issues surrounding traffic and parking
- the roles of all the actors involved and the resources available to them
- performance measures that can be used to evaluate outcomes
Case Studies include Arlington, Virginia (Roslyn-Ballston corridor); Dallas (Mockingbird Station and Addison Circle); historic transit-oriented neighborhoods in Chicago; Atlanta (Lindbergh Center and BellSouth); San Jose (Ohlone-Chynoweth); and San Diego (Barrio Logan).
New Transit Town explores the key challenges to transit-oriented development, examines the lessons learned from the first generation of projects, and uses a systematic examination and analysis of a broad spectrum of projects to set standards for the next generation. It is a vital new source of information for anyone intersted in urban and regional planning and development, including planners, developers, community groups, transit agency staff, and finance professionals.
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Balaker and Staley shine new light on the problem of traffic congestion in this easily accessible book. Though often dismissed as a minor if irritating nuisance, congestion constrains our personal and professional lives, making it harder to find a good job, spend time with our family, and maintain profitable businesses. The Road More Traveled both demonstrates these insidious effects and offers new policy solutions for bringing our roads up to speed.
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Common Sense comes to solving traffic congestion!.......2007-08-03
This book could save us a Billion dollars! (Or more)
First, I must give you some background on why I was frantically looking for a well written, fact packed book on the cost benefits of rail vs. highways and which one makes the most sense in terms of cost, convenience, efficiency, safety and actual usage.
In Madison, Wisconsin our "Mayor Dave" and our Dane County Executive recently "announced an agreement" at a press conference in June 07. The announcement was the two of them had decided for a county of 450,000 people to go ahead with plans for a commuter rail plan for Madison and two closeby towns AND a Trolley system for downtown Madison only.
The Commuter rail system is to use the surface rail tracks (not subway or elevated) laid down in the post Civil War era when there were no autos, trucks, and busses and few roads! Ignoring this fact and even admitting in the Transport 2020 report that a rail system would "likely increase traffic congestion" they decided they wanted a Train and a Trolley too!
The cost?
Estimates for the build-out are around a billion dollars. Who pays? You know...Taxpayers at all levels. Locally another 1/2 per cent added to our 5.5% sales taxes- already above the rest of the state - to raise $46 Million a year forever to subsidize the rail system.
Moreover, like the movie "Dumb and Dumber" my Mayor Dave made a second choice. How about another $250,000 (start up costs only) for his favorite toy - a couple of miles of Trolley system that he knew the County taxpayers would be happy to support. (Even though they would likely never use it)
Note: The Mayor and the County Executive are nice people and they are not dumb, but the rail and trolley plans being proposed certainly are!
Now you know why I bought this book! The authors are experts. Their writing is clear, concise and reads like Ben Franklin's Almanacs. Common sense rules as does straight shooting facts and concrete advice you can use to fight the Rail policy Wonks and elites who would like to give their kids a ride on a train.... once.
Examples: "Ten Congestion Busters", "Ten Myths of dealing with Traffic Congestion" and "Ten Steps to Congestion Relief". Granted they look like cold remedies, but are practical traffic congestion solutions.
Just these three provide you with talking points to take to the City council, the County Board (which I have already) and State and Federal transportation officials.
Locally, we are using "The Road More Traveled" as our Bible in talking to civic groups, on local radio and TV, Web sites and Blogs to wake people up to the boondoggle that this plan for a Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) actually will impose on everyone. "The Road" gives you practical solutions to offer to counter the "Rail Heads."
Two words of advice: "Buy it"
Clear-Headed Insight into a Crucial Issue.......2007-02-05
If this book were nearly unreadable and merely served to make its point in dense prose, it would be well worth its price and then some for making a common sense point that has been given short shrift in planning debates. Luckily for us, however, the authors have produced an emminiently accessible work that allows any reasonably literate person with or without a degree in urban planning to have a better understanding of how mobility profoundly affects all of our lives and how our mobility has become constrained over the past few decades by a combination of well-intentioned but poor urban planning and outright congestion-by-design.
The authors key point is a simple one: mobility matters. It matters economically and it matters socially. The ability of citizens of modest means to travel expeditiously and cheaply opens up to those citizens a wider range of job opportunities and social interactions than would otherwise be available. Mobility makes our economy richer and social lives more fulfilling. Part of the promise of a free society can only be obtained if we are free to navigate the physical landscape on which that society exists. Your ability to travel 10 miles or 25 miles or 50 miles to commute, to shop to visit friends and relatives, makes your life richer than it would be if your freedom of movement were limited to narrow corridors or tight spheres.
A couple of examples: the authors point to dating patterns in a large metropolitan area which have been limited to realtively tight geographic areas due to the hassle that navigating traffic congestion poses to the process of looking for mates further afield. Simply put: A person won't seek to date whom he or she cannot easily reach. This point is further brought home in the case of two income-earner households who have to balance career choices with the demands of conflicting commutes. Ideally, both spouses/partners would take the job that provides him/her with the greatest individual benefits, allowing both to achieve maximum income and job satisfaction. Where mobility constraints require a person to design a career around a commuting pattern it becomes very difficult for both spouses/partners to maximize career opportunities.
The authors make an important and common sense point that is nontheless viewed as controversial in our day and age. To wit: no device enhances personal mobility more than an automobile. For some reason I cannot understand, the automobile has come to be viewed as an evil to be tolerated and not as a tool that has enabled the widest possible share of the population to take full advantage of the range of economic and social opportunities open to those who can physically access them. Instead planners and activists have foisted on the general populace the notion that we are "addicted" to the automobile and must be incentivized or coerced into living in extreme density and travelling on fixed rail. The most powerful cudgel these elements have to force the general population to throw up its hands and give in is to freeze roadway expansion, force us to choke on our own desire for transportation and accept a prescription of fixed rail transit.
The authors persuasively take on the most pervasive arguments of this congestion lobby. I won't repeat all of their take downs here. My favorite is their evisceration of oft-repeated (and never examined) notion that (let's all say it together) "we cannot build our way out of congestion." Uh, yes we can, and the notion that it is somehow per se impractical or "wrong" to add capacity to a system functioning at or above capacity would never be applied if the system at issue were a school system, healthcare system or mass transit system.
Every public official who is charged with transportation planning, and every citizen who is interested in the subject of mobility should read this book.
Policy Makers Need to Read this book - the public wants roads.......2007-01-29
This is an important book for planners, planning commission members, staff and elected officials to read -- especially for anyone involved in the policy-making, planning or approval side of the road construction business. It offers a general apologetic for the value of mobility, independence and flexibility. It argues eloquently that congestion is an evil to be avoided.
Its two hardest-hitting chapters are an eloquent defense of suburbia (debunking ten myths) and an exposé on the "congestion coalition" which has perversely encouraged and acquiesced in congestion in the misguided belief that "it's good for us." The chapter on the "congestion coalition" has some interesting analysis on that ubiquitous planning agency known as an "MPO."
But by far the most valuable section of the book is its four chapters of real-world examples and practical suggestions. The authors draw our attention to the innovative ways in which massive public projects are being planned and financed overseas, with some suggestions on how those techniques might be used in the US. There is a fascinating chapter on how Houston "built its way out of congestion." -- and an equally fascinating chapter on the success of variable tolling on the 91 Express Lanes in Orange County, California. Chapter 10 offers a variety of practical suggestions on how to tame congestion. Suggestion one: "Build sufficient road capacity to handle the growth in travel demand."
The last chapter is a clarion call to action. It lays out Ten Steps to Congestion Relief beginning with "Admit that Mobility is good" and ending with a challenge to "Take the Long View."
The notion that we cannot build our way out of congestion is wrong. It's wrong historically, and it's wrong technically. Projects in the United States and around the world show us over and over again that we have the engineering capabilities to build new capacity and manage existing networks more effectively.
Congestion has risen to stifling levels because we have failed locally and nationally to make mobility a public-sector priority. It's time to reestablish mobility as a priority for transportation policy at the national, state, and local levels. Moreover, it's important to realize that zero gridlock is a viable goal for regional transportation planning. We have the tools. Public opinion supports it. The funding is there to put meaningful strategies in motion and implement real solutions. What we lack is the leadership to make it happen.
"America never has permanent shortages," frustrated Texas legislator Mike Krusee observes, "except in one thing: transportation. Many Americans think congestion is inevitable; it is not. It is a breadline, it is un-American, and we should not tolerate it."
It's time now to put the right strategies in place to improve mobility for everyone and eliminate congestion in America's cities. (page 177)
Without endorsing every suggestion made by the authors, I nonetheless encourage as many as possible to read and reflect on the important ideas in this book.
Robert G. Shearer
City Manager, City of Mt. Juliet
Christmas, 2006
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Communities across the country are working to convert unused railway and canal corridors into trails for pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders, and others, serving the needs of both recreationists and commuters alike. These multi-use trails can play a key role in improving livability, as they offer an innovative means of addressing sprawl, revitalizing urban areas, and reusing degraded lands.
Trails for the Twenty-first Century is a step-by-step guide to all aspects of the planning, design, and management of multi-use trails. Originally published in 1993, this completely revised and updated edition offers a wealth of new information including.
- discussions of recent regulations and federal programs, including ADA and TEA-21
- recently revised design standards from AASHTO
- current research on topics ranging from trail surfacing to conflict resolution
- information about designing and building trails in brownfields and other
- environmentally troubled landscapes
Also included is a new introduction that describes the importance of rail-trails to the sustainable communities movement, and an expanded discussion of maintenance costs. Enhanced with a wealth of illustrations, Trails for the Twenty-first Century provides detailed guidance on topics such as: taking a physical inventory and assessment of a site; involving the public and meeting the needs of adjacent landowners; understanding and complying with existing legislation; designing, managing, and promoting a trail; and where to go for more information. It is the only comprehensive guidebook available for planners, landscape architects, local officials, and community activists interested in creating a multi-use trail.
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Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart.
In this book, noted transportation expert Robert Cervero provides an on-the-ground look at more than a dozen mass transit success stories, introducing the concept of the "transit metropolis" - a region where a workable fit exists between transit services and urban form. The author has spent more than three years studying cities around the world, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan areas of any size and with any growth pattern-from highly compact to widely dispersed-can develop successful mass transit systems.
Following an introductory chapter that frames his argument and outlines the main issues, Cervero describes and examines five different types of transit metropolises, with twelve in-depth case studies of cities that represent each type. He considers the key lessons of the case studies and debunks widely-held myths about transit and the city. In addition, he reviews the efforts underway in five North American cities to mount transit programs and discusses the factors working for and against their success. Cities profiled include Stockholm; Singapore; Tokyo; Ottawa; Zurich; Melbourne; Mexico City; Curitiba, Brazil; Portland, Oregon; Vancouver, British Columbia; and others.
The Transit Metropolis provides practical lessons on how North American cities can manage sprawl and haphazard highway development by creating successful mass transit systems. While many books discuss the need for a sustainable transportation system, few are able to present examples of successful systems and provide the methods and tools needed to create such a system. This book is a unique and invaluable resource for transportation planners and professionals, urban planners and designers, policymakers and students of planning and urban design.
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Land Use and Transit Dependency.......2007-10-25
This book is insightful in detailing the relationship between land use and transit services -- and views the relationship from several perpectives. Case study examples clarify the "transit first" and the "land use first" approaches to urban growth. The writing style is engaging and clear, accurate and helpful to understanding of the many factors involved in the transit/land use dichotomy.
inspiring and diverse.......2007-05-07
I've been very pleased with this book for its analysis of a variety of different city types and its recognition that different cities require different types of transit to really make public transit viable there. From Copenhagen's trains connecting downtown to densely populated "fingers" of growth to Ottawa's busways and Curitaba's extremely innovative and economic system, this book provides enough real life examples to see how transit can be tailored to fit any city, and vice versa.
Exceptional.......2005-07-10
You can't say enough about this excellent survey of modern transit. Expect this book to inspire you!
paradigm shifter.......2005-02-08
I read this book a few years ago and it opened my eyes forever. Instead of moaning, "What will we do about all of these cars?" I have framed the question, "What the h. is wrong with the United States?" Prior to reading this book, I had only the faintest ideas about what democratic transit planning would look like on a large scale. The answer, Switzerland!
I was fascinated by the descriptions of actual, real life functioning public transportation in Singapore and Scandinavia. This Is REAL, People!
Unfortunately, after reading this book, I have developed the understanding that until we get things right with democracy, we will not get right with transit in the US. As long as our local governments are puppets of real estate developers, we will build our transportation infrastructure to suit their need to maximize profits, rather than the needs of the people who have to live in the cities for centuries to come.
Excellent book with broad scope........1999-06-07
Cervero does an excellent job presenting each case study and its lessons with regard to urban transportation. He studies cities from the United State, Europe, Asia, and Latin America which makes the book especially valuable. He introduces and explains different types and categories of urban transportation alternatives and their respective benefits and drawbacks. Excellent book, worth reading.
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Getting to school.......2006-02-01
Of the many problems Americans frequently complain about, one has been lurking under the radar over the last several decades, and has occasionally surfaced in nasty fights at the state and local government level. This problem is that of transportation to and from college campuses. As the US population grows, the availability of open land goes down, and the number of college students increase, physical access to colleges has become a perennial issue in many states. I came to discover this in the past decade. First as a student, and now as a staff scientist at Arizona State University, I have been at ASU since 1994. In that time, I have watched parking at ASU go from great, to downright horrible.
Dr. Michael Crow became ASU's president in 2002, and since then, he has proceeded to enact numerous changes at ASU. One of them is the transformation of ASU from a commuter campus to a residential campus, and the associated loss of parking spaces inherent in such a change. As part of this, Dr. Crow had asked the students of ASU to form a task force to address transportation needs. I joined this task force, and as part of my duties, read a lot of books on transportation issues of college campuses. This is one of the books I read. I am glad I read this book. It examines transportation management at universities across the US, from large public schools, to small private schools, from schools in the countryside to schools in downtown. This book looks at the various aspects of transportation management, such as public transit, carpooling, greener forms of transit, correlating the demand and supply of parking on campuses, how to get schools and other government agencies to work together, etc, etc...
The book provides detailed case studies of how specific schools have handled their transportation needs for both their employees and students. Successes and failures are highlighted, and how both came to be. Details are given, such as costs, timelines, maps showing how transit plans were developed, charts correlating bus usage with ticket prices, etc... The primary conclusion reached by the book are similar to those I reached while working on the task force at ASU: reduce demand for car parking instead increasing supply. All in all, a great book that should be required reading for anyone who intends to work in the administration of a university or college. I do not give it five stars because it lacks examples from other countries, where cars are used less frequently than here in America.
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GIS data and tools are revolutionizing transportation research and decision making, allowing transportation analysts and professionals to understand and solve complex transportation problems that were previously impossible. Here, Miller and Shaw present a comprehensive discussion of fundamental geographic science and the applications of these principles using GIS and other software tools. By providing thorough and accessible discussions of transportation analysis within a GIS environment, this volume fills a critical niche in GIS-T and GIS literature.
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Comprehensive and thorough.......2002-12-26
Having been a student with Harvey Miller probably makes my review somewhat biased. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book if you're a student or professional in the field of GIS and need to know how GIS can be applied in transportation, or vice versa, knowing tranportation, this book will tell you what GIS can do for you. Mind you, this is not for the fainthearted, this is solid academic work and presumes some academic knowlegde prior to reading this book. It is specked with references that are hard to get, and you are likely to spend more time in the library reading up on the bibliography than digesting the actual text. Still, if GIS-T is your line of research, you cannot avoid having this book. It is by far one of the most comprehensive I have seen. It is clear that the authors posess solid knowledge and have covered a wide field and left nothing out. It may have a rather inhibitive price; in hindsight it was well worth the money spent.
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