Improving Urban Access

New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment
Herausgeber: Lönnroth, Måns; Wolmar, Christian; Sclar, Elliott

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Produktbeschreibung

Improving Urban Access: New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that it is suited to serving the social, environmental and economic principles that must guide future urban living.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781138927049
• ISBN-10: 113892704X
• Artikelnr.: 42743686

Autorenporträt

Elliott D. Sclar is professor of urban planning at Columbia University, USA, where he directs the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at the Earth Institute. CSUD is a VREF Center of Excellence in Future Urban Transport. An economist, Sclar studies the financial dynamics of public services, especially public transport. His book You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The economics of privatization won two major academic prizes. He co-authored Access for All: Transportation and urban growth with K. H. Schaeffer. Måns Lönnroth, trained in applied mathematics with a graduate degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, is interested in the meetings between politics, policy, and science. He has been a board member of the VREF and also managing director of Mistra, a Swedish endowed foundation for strategic environmental research, as well as international vice chairman of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. He has been a political advisor at the Swedish Prime Minister's Office between 1985 and 1991, co-organizing the Swedish government's commission on HIV/AIDS, and was a state secretary at the Swedish ministry of environment between 1994 and 1999. Christian Wolmar is an author and journalist based in London, UK, specializing in transport. He is a frequent speaker at conferences both in Britain and abroad, and has written a series of books on railway history, including The Subterranean Railway (the London Underground), Fire and Steam (railways in Britain), Blood, Iron and Gold (the influence of railways across the world) and To the Edge of the World (the history of the Transsiberian railway).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sustainability and Social Inclusion: The complexity of financing urban
access -Elliott Sclar and Måns Lönnroth 2. A Field Guide to the Challenge
of Financing Urban Access -Elliott Sclar and Måns Lönnroth 3. Shaping
Rapidly Growing Chinese Cities: Lessons in the behavioural impacts of
transport finance choices -Jinhua Zhao & David Block-Schachter 4. The
Social Meaning of "Access"; Lessons in transport governance from cities in
developed counties -Jago Dodson, Matthew Burke, Neil Sipe and Anthony Perl
5. Mobility and Access when Formal Markets Do Not Exist: Lessons from
cities in developing countries -Julien Allaire, Pablo Salazar Ferro,
Bernard Abeiku Arthur, and Jean-Claude Ziv 6. Lessons from Economics:
Mechanisms for financing mobility -Kenneth Gwilliam 7. Value Capture: Why
we may be disappointed -Lauren Fischer and Elliott Sclar 8. Why Can't Urban
Transport Behave Like Other Public Services? Explorations in public utility
regulation -Andrea Rizvi 9. Measuring Access not Mobility: A technical
challenge -Elliott Sclar and Måns Lönnroth 10. Practical Approaches to
Measuring Access and Social Inclusion: Lessons from Lisbon -José Viegas,
and Luís Martínez 11. Access and Social Complexity: Identifying and
managing access requirements across social groups and across the world -
Antonio Páez 12. What is Past is Prologue: Stepping into the future -
Elliott Sclar and Måns Lönnroth