The Geography of Urban Transportation

• Other Authors: Hanson, Susan 1943- (Editor), Giuliano, Genevieve (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York The Guilford Press 2004
• Edition: Third Edition
• Subjects: Urban transportation
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n this classic text and professional resource, leading geographers and urban planners present the foundational concepts and methodological tools that readers need to understand and engage with today's pressing policy issues. Covered are such key topics as passenger and freight dynamics in the A...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the scene
• The context of urban travel: concepts and recent trends
• City interactions: the dynamics of passenger and freight flows
• Transportation and urban form: stages in the spatial evolution of the American metropolis
• Impact of information technologies
• Planning for movement within cities
• The urban transportation planning process
• Reflections on the planning process
• GIS in urban-regional transportation planning
• Policy issues
• Public transportation
• Land use impacts of transportation investments highway and transit
• Transportation and energy
• The geography of urban transportation finance
• Social and environmental justice issues in urban transportation
• Transportation and the environment
• Managing the auto.