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Getting out of the mud : the Alabama good roads movement and highway administration, 1898-1928
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ISBN: 081739138X 9780817391386 9780817319557 0817319557 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Ala bama Press,

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People before Highways : Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making
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ISBN: 9781613765364 1613765363 9781625342973 1625342977 9781625342966 1625342969 9781613765371 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amherst : Baltimore, Md. : University of Massachusetts Press, Project MUSE,

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Trans-european networks : towards a master plan for the road network and road traffic


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Designing safe road systems : a human factors perspective
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ISBN: 131715214X 1315576732 1317152131 1280877057 9786613718365 1409443892 9781409443896 9781409443889 1409443884 9781317152132 9781317152149 9781317152125 1317152123 9781315576732 9781280877056 Year: 2017 Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press,

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The central theme of this book is how design principles can reduce the probability of an error while driving. The authors demonstrate how knowledge of human factors helps a road authority to better understand how road users behave. They argue that in many cases the design of the environment can be further adjusted to human capabilities, and that safety should be considered a system property to be built into the road system.


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The road to inequality : how the Federal Highway Program polarized America and undermined cities
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ISBN: 1108278639 1108280978 1108277950 1108417590 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment. As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans.


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Valuing Convenience in Public Transport
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ISBN: 9789282107683 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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The experience of transport systems users, in terms of comfort, reliability, safety and above all convenience, is critical in determining demand for transport services, at least when there is a choice of alternative ways to travel. Convenience is one of the strongest attractions of the private car for passenger transport. For users of public transport, convenience is also clearly important but not always clearly defined and not often measured in designing transport systems or monitoring their operating performance. In many situations, an increase in public transport convenience reduces the unit costs of travel (euros/dollars per hour or cents per minute) and so provides benefits equivalent to an increase in travel speed. This report focuses on convenience and its importance to the user experience. It reviews operational definitions of convenience, evidence for the willingness of users to pay for convenience and the use of indicators to assess and improve the convenience of public transport, with a view to making it more effective and more competitive.  


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The drive for dollars : how fiscal politics shaped urban freeways and transformed American cities
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ISBN: 0197601553 0197601537 9780197601532 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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In The Drive for Dollars, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris, and Brian D. Taylor tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of US urban transportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing them about. With the nation's transportation finance system at a crossroads, this book sheds light on how we can best fund and plan transportation in the future. The authors offer a way forward that will spread the financial burden more equitably, provide travelers with better mobility, build more appealing communities, and safeguard the planet.

Assessing and managing the ecological impacts of paved roads
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ISBN: 0309100887 9786610286522 1280286520 0309656311 9780309656313 9780309100885 9781280286520 6610286523 0309164834 9780309164832 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,

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All phases of road development from construction and use by vehicles to maintenance affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past two decades, the Federal Highway Administration and state transportation agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of the effects of transportation on the natural environment. This report provides guidance on ways to reconcile the different goals of road development and environmental conservation. It identifies the ecological effects of roads that can be evaluated in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of roads and offers several recommendations to help better understand and manage ecological impacts of paved roads.


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Creating Green Roadways : Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation
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ISBN: 1610913582 1597263648 1597263222 Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,

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Roads and parking lots in the United States cover more ground than the entire state of Georgia. And while proponents of sustainable transit often focus on getting people off the roads, they will remain at the heart of our transportation systems for the foreseeable future. In Creating Green Roadways, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don’t have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minimally impact the environment while improving quality of life. The authors examine traditional, utilitarian methods of transportation planning that have resulted in a host of negative impacts: from urban sprawl and congestion to loss of community identity and excess air and water pollution. They offer a better approach—one that blends form and function. Creating Green Roadways covers topics including transportation policy, the basics of green road design, including an examination of complete streets, public involvement, road ecology, and the economics of sustainable roads. Case studies from metropolitan, suburban, and rural transportation projects around the country, along with numerous photographs, illustrate what makes a project successful. The need for this information has never been greater, as more than thirty percent of America’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, more than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and congestion in communities of all sizes has never been worse. Creating Green Roadways offers a practical strategy for rethinking how we design, plan, and maintain our transportation infrastructure.

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