TRANSPORTATION FOR LIVABLE CITIES

The era of projects aimed at maximizing vehicular travel is being replaced by the broader goal of achieving livable cities: economically efficient, socially sound, and environmentally sustainable. This book explores the complex relationship between transportation and the character of cities and metropolitan regions. The book presents a systematic review of transportation modes and their characteristics and discusses the consequences of excessive automobile dependence and shows that the most livable cities worldwide have intermodal systems that balance highway and public transit modes while providing for pedestrians, bicyclists, and paratransit. The book dispels the myths and emotional advocacies for or against freeways, rail transit, bicycles, and other modes and defines the policies necessary for achieving livable cities--the effective implementation of integrated intermodal transportation systems.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Center for Urban Policy Research

  Civic Square, 33 Livingston Avenue, Suite 400
  New Brunswick, NJ  United States  08901-1982
• Authors:
  • Vuchic, V R
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 352 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Cities; Design; Economics; Environmental impacts; Freeways; Integrated systems; Intermodal transportation; Metropolitan planning organizations; Rail transit; Sustainable development; Transportation planning; Travel modes; Urban transportation; Vehicles
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00784111
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0882851616
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 24 2000 12:00AM