Transportation and economic development challenges
Introduction / Kenneth Button and Aura Reggiani -- The relationship between megaregions and megapolitans: transportation planning for the two scales / Jason S. Myers and Anne Dunning -- The global economic crisis, investment in transport infrastructure, and economic development / Andrew R. Goetz --...
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| Language: | English |
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Edward Elgar
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| Series: | NECTAR series on transportation and communications networks research
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Introduction / Kenneth Button and Aura Reggiani -- The relationship between megaregions and megapolitans: transportation planning for the two scales / Jason S. Myers and Anne Dunning -- The global economic crisis, investment in transport infrastructure, and economic development / Andrew R. Goetz -- Distance in the existence of political pathologies : rationalized transport policies and trade / Nihan Akyelken -- Access to rail in urban areas : examination of the number of stations / Moshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld -- Parcel distribution networks for online shopping business / Hyunwoo Lim and Narushige Shiode -- Discussion of the necessity of accessiblity standards : the German "Guidelines for integrated network design" (RIN) / Regine Gerike, Andreas Rau and Jürgen Gerlach. -- Transportation planning of the future : mitigating GHGs in the US through green litigation / Deb Niemeier, Erica Jones and Roger Cheng -- Matching words and deeds? : how transit-oriented are the Bloomberg-era rezonings in New York City? / Simon McDonnell, Josiah Madar and Vicki Been -- Policymaking on waterside industrial sites : an empirical study for Flanders / Tom Pauwels ... [et al.] Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuel-efficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines such as traffic management and supply chain logistics. The contributions to this volume assess transportation interactions with employment and income, examine some of the policies that have been deployed to maximize the economic and social impacts of transportation provision at the local and regional levels and analyze how advances in transportation technologies have, and will, impact future development |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 205 p ill., maps |
| ISBN: | 9781849801676 1849801673 9780857930637 |