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The Asian Mediterranean
François Gipouloux
This insightful book draws upon a wide range of disciplines – political economy, geography and international relations – to examine how Asia has returned to its central position in the world economy.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transport and Ethics
Bert van Wee
This insightful book discusses the use of Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) for transport policy options from an ethical perspective. Each detailed chapter deals with issues such as: the use and ethical aspects of CBA in transport, social exc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport
Edited by Cathy Macharis, Sandra Melo
City distribution plays a key role in supporting urban lifestyles, helping to serve and retain industrial and trading activities, and contributing to the competitiveness of regional industry. Despite these positive effects, it also gener...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transportation and Economic Development Challenges
Edited by Kenneth Button, Aura Reggiani
Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuel-efficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines suc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Systems Thinking and Decision Making in Urban and Environmental Planning
Anastássios Perdicoúlis
In this path-breaking book, Anastássios Perdicoúlis progresses the conception and expression of the planning problem as an ‘extended mental model’. In doing so he concisely expresses the essential elements of strategic planning (conditio... -
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New Developments in Transport Planning
Edited by Chris M.J. Tampere, Francesco Viti, Lambertus H. (Ben) Immers
Traffic assignment is a set of criteria through which the demand for mobility is distributed over the links of a transport network. Over the last 30 years, Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models have been developed to support time-depen... -
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Transport, Welfare and Externalities
Dieter Schmidtchen, Christian Koboldt, Jenny Helstroffer, Birgit Will, Georg Haas, Stefan Witte
This book discusses a paradigm shift for dealing with the internalization of external costs in transport. Crucial to the analysis is the insight that the polluters are not the only cost drivers; both pollutees and the state can also cont...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems
Edited by Matthias Ruth, Brynhildur Davidsdottir
Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport
Edited by Rob Konings, Hugo Priemus, Peter Nijkamp
This book explores the great challenge of increasing the scope of intermodal freight transport. In view of the current dominant role of road transport and the increasing difficulties in coping with a growing number of vehicles in an effi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Road Congestion Pricing in Europe
Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Chang-Hee Christine Bae
In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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North American Freight Transportation
Mary R. Brooks
Heightened awareness of North America’s vulnerability to terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 has precipitated a crisis for transport suppliers and cargo owners, one that jeopardizes economic prosperity. Mary Brooks examines one industry s... -
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Port Privatisation
Edited by James Reveley, Malcolm Tull
The transformation of public ports into commercially orientated and profitable entities is occurring apace in the Asia-Pacific region. This timely book is the first to take a regional perspective on port reform and port privatisation. A ...eBook:Find out more$40.00