Accessibility Analysis and Transport Planning: Challenges for Europe and North America

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Accessibility Analysis and Transport Planning: Challenges for Europe and North America

Author(s): Karst T. Geurs (Editor), Kevin J. Krizek (Editor), Aura Reggiani (Editor)

  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct. 2012
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 320 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1781000107
  • ISBN-13: 9781781000106

Book Description

Accessibility is a concept central to integrated transport and land use planning. The goal of improving accessibility for all modes, for all people, has made its way into mainstream transport policy and planning in communities worldwide. This unique and fascinating book introduces new accessibility approaches to transport planning across Europe and the United States.

The expert contributors present a wide variety of perspectives on transport and communication issues and explore their impacts on society at an international level. Best practice in both accessibility analysis and modelling are highlighted via widely interdisciplinary approaches. Moreover, future objectives and areas for research are clearly addressed.

This book will prove an absorbing read for scholars, researchers and students working on accessibility issues across various academic fields including civil engineering, economics, geography, and the social sciences. Transport and urban planners will also find the book to be an invaluable reference tool.

Contributors: K.W. Axhausen, X. Cao, C. Chorus, P. Christidis, Y. Crozet, M. de Bok, T. de Graaff, G. Debrezion, A. El-Geneidy, K.T. Geurs, A. Gjestland, A. Golub, D. Halden, J. Horning, N. Ibanez Rivas, K.J. Krizek, K. Lucas, K. Manaugh, K. Martens, D. McArthur, A. Mercier, P.L. Mokhtarian, T. Neutens, L. Osland, N. Ovtracht, A. Reggiani, P. Rietveld, I. Thorsen, B. van Wee, C. Zollig, B. Zondag

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘This book encapsulates the broad spectrum of work which may come under the umbrella of accessibility. From theoretical to applied, from people focussed to place focussed, individual to aggregate and from economic progress to promoting well-being, the long, varied history of accessibility as a concept in transport planning is borne out in the chapters in this volume.’ — Journal of Transport Geography

About the Author

Edited by Karst T. Geurs, Professor of Transport Planning, University of Twente, the Netherlands, Kevin J. Krizek, Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado, Boulder, US and Aura Reggiani, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Bologna, Italy

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