A New Deal for Transport? (eBook, ePUB)

The UK's struggle with the sustainable transport agenda
Redaktion: Docherty, Iain; Shaw, Jon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. * A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. * Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field. * Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues. * Will inform debate over the future of transport policy. * Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444355512
• Artikelnr.: 38407574

Autorenporträt

Iain Docherty is a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and an expert in urban governance, particularly the implementation of planning and transport policies. His previous publications include Making Tracks (1999), which looks at the transport planning system in major British cities. Jon Shaw is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen. His recent work has examined the privatization of British Rail and road building in England. He is the author of Competition, Regulation and the Privatisation of British Rail (2000) and co-editor of All Change: British Railway Privatisation (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface ix
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xiv
Preface xviii
List of Abbreviations xxii
Part I Policy and Politics 1
1 Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour's
Dilemma 3
Iain Docherty
2 Devolution and Sustainable Transport 30
Austin Smyth
3 Local Transport Planning under Labour 51
Geoff Vigar and Dominic Stead
Part II Progress in Policy Implementation 73
4 Roads and Traffic Congestion Policies: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
75
William Walton
5 A Railway Renaissance? 108
Jon Shaw and John Farrington
6 Light Rail and the London Underground 135
Richard Knowles and Peter White
7 A 'Thoroughbred' in the Making? The Bus Industry under Labour 158
John Preston
8 Ubiquitous, Everyday Walking and Cycling: The Acid Test of a Sustainable
Transport Policy 178
Rodney Tolley
9 Air Transport Policy: Reconciling Growth and Sustainability? 198
Brian Graham
Part III The Future 227
10 Towards a Genuinely Sustainable Transport Agenda for the United Kingdom
229
Phil Goodwin
Index 245

Rezensionen

"should be on every consultant's, politician's andplanner's desk and in the library of every institution wheretransport is seriously studied" (Logistic and TransportFocus, March 2004)

"This book outlines the political and implementation questionsrelating to transport policy delivery in the UK. Despite goodintentions and a radical policy agenda this book reveals the LabourGovernment has failed to reduce the need to travel and to improvetravel choice. Society has become more car dependent, levels ofcongestion and unreliability have increased, and the goal ofsustainable transport has disappeared. The contributors to thisbook systematically document and assess the record of theGovernment on transport over the last six years."
--David Banister, University College London

"This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest inUK transport policy. It debunks, in forensic detail, the myth thatthe government has a coherent strategy for transport."
--Christian Wolmar, author of Broke Rails - HowPrivatisation Wrecked Britain's Railways

"This book is valuable not only to transport geographers and thegrowing literature on sustainable transport, but to anyoneinterested in how government promises fail to come to fruition."(The Geographical Journal)