Urban Mass Transit

Author : Thomas Abdallah
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780443152726

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Sustainable Mass Transit by Thomas Abdallah Pdf

Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation, Second Edition highlights the many sustainability solutions and alternatives to fossil fuel usage including renewable energy and efficiency in mass transit, as well as the conservation of materials, water, and air and the overall health of communities. This new edition will update the reader on developments in the field since 2017 and advancements in sustainability solutions. It explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation, and expansion of a mass transportation system. The book covers the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building, and retrofitting. It explores the mitigation measures that reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation, and more. It covers energy, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic pollution and other significant environmental impacts, recycling, and more. It also examines organizational best practices and environmental regulatory constraints and life cycle assessments, describing which sustainable elements can be added while rehabilitating or expanding a mass transportation infrastructure or ancillary facility. The book concludes with a look at forthcoming sustainable initiatives that will enhance mass transit systems. Contains case studies from around the world, including several new case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia Thoroughly updated with four new chapters on The Sustainable Mass Transit Revolution, Relevance of Mass Transit, Environmental Professionals in Transportation, and Reimagining Sustainable Mass Transit Includes a new companion website with assessment questions for educators, image files and video presentations Shows how teams from different fields, entities, agencies and cities can work together to solve complex sustainability challenges

Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0801893151

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Urban Mass Transit by Robert C. Post Pdf

Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities. Post depicts mass transit as a technology—rather, as a technological system—that provided an essential complement to industrialization, urbanization, and, ultimately, to the rise of consumer culture. He begins his narrative with the omnibus and horsecar in the 1830s and takes it to the renaissance of urban mass transit at the turn of the 21st century. Post focuses on innovations in the United States as well as worldwide developments. At the heart of the story is the streetcar, a conveyance that played a central role in the development of all U.S. cities and towns. For generations of Americans, streetcars were essential to everyday life. Once dominating the urban landscape in towns and cities throughout the United States, the streetcar has all but disappeared. Post traces its evolution and demise, debunking the urban myth that the downfall of the electric streetcar was directly attributable to the corporate malfeasance of General Motors and others from the automotive world. Post concludes with a meditation on the prospects for mass transit in a postmodern society that must face up to the contradictions of privatized mobility and the reality of dwindling natural resources.

Author : United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015004545813

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The Handicapped and Elderly Market for Urban Mass Transit by United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Urban transportation
ISBN : UCLA:L0055063895

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Urban Transportation Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : George M. Smerk
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007254538

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Urban Mass Transportation by George M. Smerk Pdf

Author : Vukan R. Vuchic
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471758235

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Urban Transit Systems and Technology by Vukan R. Vuchic Pdf

This is the only current and in print book covering the full field of transit systems and technology. Beginning with a history of transit and its role in urban development, the book proceeds to define relevant terms and concepts, and then present detailed coverage of all urban transit modes and the most efficient system designs for each. Including coverage of such integral subjects as travel time, vehicle propulsion, system integration, fully supported with equations and analytical methods, this book is the primary resource for students of transit as well as those professionals who design and operate these key pieces of urban infrastructure.

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Local transit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044131725

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Urban Public Transportation by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library Pdf

Author : Jarrett Walker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781610911740

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Human Transit by Jarrett Walker Pdf

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In Human Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. Human Transit explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Whether you are in the field or simply a concerned citizen, here is an accessible guide to achieving successful public transit that will enrich any community.

Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0313339163

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Urban Mass Transit by Robert C. Post Pdf

This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around. Just a few hundred years ago, the size of cities was limited by the time it took people to move from one part of the city to another. The development of successive technologies has forever altered the urban landscape. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to current light-rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015026575723

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Urban Mass Transportation Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lewis M. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015006402096

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Marketing Urban Mass Transit by Lewis M. Schneider Pdf

USA. Better business strategys of urban transport companies would solve many of their problems. Research on marketing, prices and publicity would be helpful. Partly historical. References.

Author : George M. Guess
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131653748

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Managing and Financing Urban Public Transport Systems by George M. Guess Pdf

"This book compares the institutions and regulatory contexts in which transit systems operate, the operations and management problems with which they must contend, and the policy options and solutions which they have implemented."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alan Black
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033991426

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Urban Mass Transportation Planning by Alan Black Pdf

"This book provides the perfect comprehensive introduction to mass transit for anyone interested in transportation planning as a career, as well as for those who simply have a personal interest in the subject area. It is a policy-oriented book that contains some technical material, but avoids in-depth coverage of the electric and mechanical engineering aspects." "Distinctly factual, and not ideological, the book offers readers a balanced view of the debate between highways and transit - carefully presenting both sides of controversial issues. The intent is to give readers the solid understanding necessary to analyze problems objectively, and to assure that transit proposals are rationally planned and evaluated." "The book dedicates a full three chapters to historical and political background, and three others to the transit technologies or "modes" currently in use. Furthermore, readers will find coverage of the design of transit networks, operations and management, and impacts on land use, energy consumption, and the environment. Lastly, two chapters cover ridership characteristics, and two deal with economics and finance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Thomas N. Trzyna,Joseph R. Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Urban transportation
ISBN : LCCN:78012457

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Urban Mass Transit by Thomas N. Trzyna,Joseph R. Beck Pdf

Author : Hiroaki Suzuki,Robert Cervero,Kanako Iuchi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821397503

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Transforming Cities with Transit by Hiroaki Suzuki,Robert Cervero,Kanako Iuchi Pdf

'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration and provides policy recommendations and implementation strategies for effective integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.