Sustainable transportation planning : Tools for creating vibrant, healthy, and resilient communities
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Sustainable transportation planning : Tools for creating vibrant, healthy, and resilient communities
（The Wiley series in sustainable design, 16）
Wiley, c2012
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"The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being. Getting from A to B has never been more difficult, expensive or miserable. It doesn't have to be this way. Jeffrey Tumlin's book Sustainable Transportation Planning offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained tips and techniques that will allow us to quite literally take back our roads. Essential reading for anyone who wants to drive our transportation system out of the gridlock."
-Marianne Cusato, home designer and author of Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid
?The book is full of useful ideas on nearly every page.?
? Bill DiBennedetto of Triple Pundit
As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities? economic development, social equity and ecological sustainability goals. Starting with detailed advice for improving each mode of transportation, the book offers guidance on balancing the needs of each mode against each other, whether on a downtown street, or a small town neighborhood, or a regional network.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Why Transportation? 2
The Big Picture: Mobility vs. Accessibility 4
Structure of This Book 5
Chapter 2 Sustainable Transportation 7
What is Sustainability? 7
Chapter 3 Transportation and Public Health 23
The Human Body 23
Does This McMansion Make Me Look Fat? 26
Danger, Will Robinson! 27
Anger, Will Robinson! 28
Health and Equity 29
Driving and Social Health 31
Transportation and Trust 31
Conclusions 33
Chapter 4 The City of the Future 35
Yesterday's Tomorrowland 35
Imagining the Sustainable City of the Future 37
Chapter 5 Streets 45
Conceptualizing Streets 45
Principles of Street Design 48
Chapter 6 Pedestrians 51
Introduction 51
Pedestrian Planning Principles 51
Pedestrian Planning Tools 56
Pedestrian Design Tools 60
Measuring Pedestrian Success 69
Case Study: Marin County Safe Routes to Schools 71
Chapter 7 Bicycles 73
Introduction 73
Why Invest in Cycling? 73
Increasing Cycling 74
Key Cycling Principles 76
Design So That Everyone Will Enjoy Biking 81
Measuring Bicycle Success 101
Further Information 101
Chapter 8 Transit 105
Introduction 105
Transit Modes 106
Case Study: Los Angeles Metro Rapid 114
Case Study: Portland Streetcar 116
Case Study: San Diego Trolley 117
Design for Transit 121
Measuring Success 134
Case Study: Boulder, Colorado, Community Transit Network 136
Transit Planning Resources 136
Chapter 9 Motor Vehicles 139
Introduction 139
Designing for Cars 143
Design Manuals That Build upon Context 149
Design Guidance 151
Modeling Traffic 166
Freeways 169
Chapter 10 Parking 173
Introduction 173
Parking is Destiny 173
Parking Economics 101 175
Parking Tools 177
Parking Management Principles 181
Top Ten Parking Management Strategies 186
Chapter 11 Carsharing 205
Introduction 205
Types of Carsharing 206
Impacts 207
Where Carsharing is Most Successful 208
Public Policies That Support Carsharing 212
Municipal Fleets 215
Jump-Starting a Program 216
Chapter 12 Stations and Station Areas 217
Introduction 217
Multimodal Access 219
Case Study: WMATA's Orange Line 232
Station Components 234
Case Study: BART Station Replacement Parking 236
Chapter 13 Transportation Demand Management 241
What is Traffic Congestion and Why Does It Happen? 241
Planning for Reduced Traffic 244
Traffic Reduction: A How-To Guide 249
Chapter 14 Measuring Success 263
Definitions 263
How Performance Measures are Used 264
How Performance Measures are Misused 264
Measuring Success for Multiple Modes 270
Using Performance Measures to Balance Modes 270
Citywide Transportation System Measurements 277
Evaluating Project Alternatives 282
Additional Resources 285
Chapter 15 For More Information 287
Useful Online Resources 287
Required Reading 288
Useful Tools 289
Endnotes 297
Index 303
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