Transport in human scale cities /

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Transport in human scale cities / / edited by Milos N. Mladenović, Tuuli Toivonen, and Elias Willberg.

This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the ci...

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Superior document:NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research
TeilnehmendeR:
Toivonen, Tuuli,
Mladenović, Milos N.,
Willberg, Elias,
Edward Elgar Publishing,
Place / Publishing House:Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research
Physical Description:1 online resource (290 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Editors and contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART I Introduction
  • 1. Setting the stage for transport in human scale cities
  • PART II Understanding human scale transport in cities
  • 2. Urban transport and wellbeing: a critical analysis
  • 3. The relationship between the population's socio-economic status and walkability measures: the context of the Lisbon metropolitan area
  • 4. Avoiding public transport? Assessing the relationship between accessibility, income and commuting mode in Recife, Brazil
  • 5. The quality of life effects of enhancing public transport subsidies for hospitality workers in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 6. Analysing urban mobility in ageing populations: the case of two Portuguese historic centres
  • 7. Car sharing for older adults in Oslo: practices, needs and preferences
  • PART III Responsible innovation practices for human scale cities
  • 8. Issues in the design and application of stated adaptation surveys to examine behavioural change: the example of Mobility-as-a-Service
  • 9. Lessons from the deployment of the world's first automated bus service on a mixed public road in Stockholm
  • 10. Smartphone challenges to stimulate cycling: clues from a living lab in Enschede
  • 11. Integrated mobility concepts in residential areas: challenges and opportunities of measures for sustainable urban mobility
  • PART IV Potentials for developing planning processes for human scale cities
  • 12. Channelling human scaled modes to build repurposed street networks
  • 13. The Gross Potential for Cycling: planning for human scale urban mobility
  • 14. Comparing spatial data sources for cycling studies: a review
  • 15. Urban traffic and health risk: what is the role for citizen participation in transport planning?.
  • 16. What could transport planning practice learn from public participation GIS method?
  • 17. Participatory evaluation in transport planning: the application of Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis in co-creation to solve mobility problems in Brussels
  • 18. Implementing a metro project: a political economy perspective from Lima
  • PART V Conclusion
  • 19. On the journey of transforming transport systems for human scale cities
  • Index.

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