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The Urban Rail Development Handbook
Cities across the globe are looking to develop affordable, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible transportation solutions that can meet the accessibility needs of expanding metropolitan populations and support future economic and urban development. When appropriately planned and properly implemented as part of a larger public transportation network, urban rail systems can provide rapid mobility and vital access to city centers from surrounding districts. High-performing urban rail services, when carefully approached as development projects, can help enhance quality of life by giving citizens access to employment opportunities, essential services, urban amenities, and neighboring...
Urban Mobility Systems in the World
Urban Mobility Systems in the World provides insight into the geographical organization of urban mobility systems around the world. These “systems” consist of infrastructure networks, existing transport services and people’s travel practices. Adopting a comparative approach, the book highlights the geographical diversity of mobility systems, based on case studies from Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe. This multi-disciplinary book is organized into twelve chapters, divided into four parts. The first part gives an overview of urban mobility, and then examines the factors that determine everyday mobility in cities, revealing different travel practices among populations (poor, elderly and children). Parts 2 and 3, respectively, focus on urban public transport (trains, metros, minibuses) and active modes of transport (walking, cycling), and the related infrastructure policies. The final section examines the circulation of urban mobility analysis tools and public policy models
Alternative Service Delivery: Readiness Check
Alternative Service Delivery: Readiness Check synthesizes academic and practitioner knowledge about alternative service delivery (ASD) systems. This handbook offers information and insights that local governments can use to provide public services more effectively and efficiently. It serves as a primer about alternative service delivery, intended to guide investigation of new approaches to service delivery. It derives from multiple conversations with local government practitioners in Illinois who were frustrated by a lack of guidance on how to think about alternative service delivery methods for public services, and in what circumstances different alternatives were more or less successful. T...
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries
This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual practice of subnational government finance. The extensive literature about the theory and practice is surveyed and longstanding problems and new questions are addressed. It focuses on the key choices that must be made in decentralizing, on how economic and political factors shape the choices that countries make, and on how, by paying more attention to the need for a more comprehensive approach and the critical connections between different components of decentralization reform, everyone involved might get more for their money.
Management, Information and Educational Engineering
This book contains selected Computer, Management, Information and Educational Engineering related papers from the 2014 International Conference on Management, Information and Educational Engineering (MIEE 2014) which was held in Xiamen, China on November 22-23, 2014. The conference aimed to provide a platform for researchers, engineers and academic
Financing Infrastructure
Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada’s urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended, and it is necessary that public housing as well as schools, health centres, and government offices are brought up to current standards. But few cities have room to raise additional revenue, and the federal and provincial governments to which they turn for financial support are already in deficit, so who is going to pay for all of this? Bringing together perspectives and case studies from across Canada, the US, and Europe, Financin...
Systèmes de mobilité urbaine dans le monde
Cet ouvrage examine l’organisation géographique des systèmes de mobilité urbaine à travers le monde. Le terme « système » fait référence aux réseaux d’infrastructure, aux services de transport existants et aux pratiques de déplacement des populations. S’inscrivant dans une démarche comparatiste, cet ouvrage met en avant la diversité géographique des systèmes de mobilité, à partir de cas d’études en Afrique, en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, en Asie et en Europe. Pluridisciplinaire, Systèmes de mobilité urbaine dans le monde s’organise en quatre temps. Après avoir dressé un panorama de la mobilité urbaine, la première partie s’intéresse aux déterminants de la mobilité quotidienne en ville, révélant des pratiques de déplacement différenciées selon les populations (pauvres, âgées, enfants). Les parties suivantes étudient respectivement les transports collectifs urbains (train, métro, minibus) et les modes actifs (marche, vélo), ainsi que les politiques d’infrastructures qui leur sont liées. Une dernière partie questionne la circulation des méthodes d’analyse de la mobilité urbaine et des modèles d’action publique.
Manual para el desarrollo de ferrocarriles urbanos
A nivel global, ciudades buscan desarrollar soluciones de transporte asequibles, ecológicas y socialmenteresponsables que puedan satisfacer las necesidades de conectividad de las crecientes poblacionesmetropolitanas y respaldar el futuro desarrollo económico y urbano. Cuando los sistemas ferroviariosurbanos se planifican e implementan adecuadamente como parte de una red de transporte público másamplia, éstis pueden brindar vías rápidas de movilidad y acceso vital a los centros urbanos desde laperiferias. Los servicios ferroviarios urbanos de alto rendimiento, cuando se abordan cuidadosamente en elcontexto de un proyecto de desarrollo, pueden ayudar a mejorar la calidad de vida de los ...
Urban Transport Environment and Equity
Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach. It emphasizes the importance of co-ordinating urban, transport and traffic planning, and addresses the major challenge of modifying the building and use of roads. The author makes suggestions for innovative and radical new measures towards an equitable and sustainable urban environment.
