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Urban Challenges and Urban Design Approaches for Resource-Efficient and Climate-Sensitive Urban Design in the MENA Region
In an era defined by climate change, huge resource consumption, a lack of social cohesion, rapidly accelerating technological innovations, economic shifts, and the transformation of political systems, solutions must be pursued at every level of action. This book shows how solutions from urban design and planning can, by integrating the approaches of multiple disciplines, be the first steps toward envisioning the sustainable, energy-efficient, and climate-sensitive city of the future. This book is compiled for readers from a range of professional backgrounds. Its intended audience includes the government bodies, municipalities, urban planners, engineers, architects, civil servants, and citize...
Mobility and Transportation
While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development. In this volume, an overview is provided of solutions comprising concepts for sustainable transportation through intelligent management, innovative instruments for integrated transport planning, modelling systems, adaptation strategies in the transport sector and concepts for enhancing public transit. Developed for five cities of the programme by transdisciplinary and international research teams in close collaboration with local stakeholders, they are presented on the background of big challenges ranging from data collection issues, modelling and planning in a fast growing environment to resistance of citizens against big infrastructure projects
Paradigm Shift in Urban Mobility
Tomasz Janasz demonstrates that digital technologies and new mobility concepts can lead to a reduction of the automobiles in urban areas by a factor of 10. The book features two vivid case studies of such digital mobility concepts: TwoGo by SAP and smexx. The author proposes six prototypes of business models for ‘Shared Automobility Services’. Janasz offers also the ‘Transformative Literacy’ for designing sustainable urban mobility systems of the future. The author elaborates on the socio-political patterns of urban mobility by presenting the case of the City of Basel (Switzerland). He proposes the framework of ‘Integrated Sustainable Urban Mobility’ to explain how to overcome car dependence in cities.
Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition
The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.
Wirtschaftsverkehr in der Verkehrsplanung
Der hier vorliegende fünfte Band von Vorträgen der Kolloquiumsreihe Verkehrsplanungsseminar des Fachgebiets Integrierte Verkehrsplanung der TU Berlin widmet sich speziell dem Thema Wirtschaftsverkehr. Die mit dem Transport von Gütern und der Erstellung von Dienstleistungen verbundenen Verkehre waren in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten aufgrund von veränderten Rahmen¬bedingungen wie wirtschaftlicher Strukturwandel durch starke Technologiewandlungen geprägt. Durch diese Veränderungen rückte der Wirtschaftsverkehr stärker in das öffentliche Interesse. Der Klimawandel und der überproportionale und ansteigende Anteil insbesondere des Güterverkehrs am Haupttreibhausgas CO2 schoben den Wirts...
Commercial Transport
This contributed volume contains the selected and reviewed papers of the 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) 2015, Dortmund, Germany. The topical focus lies on economic, ecological and societal issues related to commercial transport. The authors are international experts and the paper collection presents the state-of-the-art in the field, thus making this book a valuable read for both practitioners and researchers.
Transport Survey Methods
Identifies various challenges to the world community of transport survey specialists as well as the larger constituency of practitioners, planners, and decision-makers that it serves and provides potential solutions and recommendations for addressing them.
Elektrifizierungspotenzial kommerzieller Kraftfahrzeug-Flotten im Wirtschaftsverkehr als dezentrale Energie-Ressource in städtischen Verteilnetzen – komDRIVE
In diesem Buch sind die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes „komDRIVE“ dargestellt. Das Vorhaben analysierte die Potenziale des Einsatzes von elektrischen Fahrzeugen in verschiedenen Branchen des urbanen Wirtschaftsverkehrs. Darauf aufbauend wurden die Auswirkungen des Einsatzes von elektrischen Fahrzeugflotten auf elektrische Netze, unter Berücksichtigung der Aspekte Energieerzeugung, ‑speicherung und –verteilung untersucht. Dabei standen insbesondere die Batteriealterung und Batteriekosten sowie das Netzintegrationsmanagement im besonderen Fokus der Betrachtungen. Durch den Einsatz von entsprechenden Modellen konnten die Verringerung der lokalen (Luftverschmutzung) und der globalen...
