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Sustainable Transportation Planning

Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Jeffrey Tumlin

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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 PunditAs 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-02-20
Mått211 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWiley Series in Sustainable Design
Antal sidor320
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470540930

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JEFFREY TUMLIN is an owner and sustainability practice leader of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, a San Franciscobased transportation planning and engineering firm that focuses on sustainable mobility. Over the past nineteen years, he has led station-area, downtown, citywide, and campus plans, and he has delivered various lectures and classes in twenty U.S. states and five other countries. His major development projects have succeeded in reducing their traffic and CO2 emissions by as much as 40% and have accommodated many millions of square feet of growth with no net increase in motor vehicle traffic. These projects have won awards from the General Services Administration, American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Urban Land Institute.

Acknowledgments viiForeword ixChapter 1 Introduction 1Why Transportation? 2The Big Picture: Mobility vs. Accessibility 4Structure of This Book 5Chapter 2 Sustainable Transportation 7What is Sustainability? 7Chapter 3 Transportation and Public Health 23The Human Body 23Does This McMansion Make Me Look Fat? 26Danger, Will Robinson! 27Anger, Will Robinson! 28Health and Equity 29Driving and Social Health 31Transportation and Trust 31Conclusions 33Chapter 4 The City of the Future 35Yesterday’s Tomorrowland 35Imagining the Sustainable City of the Future 37Chapter 5 Streets 45Conceptualizing Streets 45Principles of Street Design 48Chapter 6 Pedestrians 51Introduction 51Pedestrian Planning Principles 51Pedestrian Planning Tools 56Pedestrian Design Tools 60Measuring Pedestrian Success 69Case Study: Marin County Safe Routes to Schools 71Chapter 7 Bicycles 73Introduction 73Why Invest in Cycling? 73Increasing Cycling 74Key Cycling Principles 76Design So That Everyone Will Enjoy Biking 81Measuring Bicycle Success 101Further Information 101Chapter 8 Transit 105Introduction 105Transit Modes 106Case Study: Los Angeles Metro Rapid 114Case Study: Portland Streetcar 116Case Study: San Diego Trolley 117Design for Transit 121Measuring Success 134Case Study: Boulder, Colorado, Community Transit Network 136Transit Planning Resources 136Chapter 9 Motor Vehicles 139Introduction 139Designing for Cars 143Design Manuals That Build upon Context 149Design Guidance 151Modeling Traffic 166Freeways 169Chapter 10 Parking 173Introduction 173Parking is Destiny 173Parking Economics 101 175Parking Tools 177Parking Management Principles 181Top Ten Parking Management Strategies 186Chapter 11 Carsharing 205Introduction 205Types of Carsharing 206Impacts 207Where Carsharing is Most Successful 208Public Policies That Support Carsharing 212Municipal Fleets 215Jump-Starting a Program 216Chapter 12 Stations and Station Areas 217Introduction 217Multimodal Access 219Case Study: WMATA’s Orange Line 232Station Components 234Case Study: BART Station Replacement Parking 236Chapter 13 Transportation Demand Management 241What is Traffic Congestion and Why Does It Happen? 241Planning for Reduced Traffic 244Traffic Reduction: A How-To Guide 249Chapter 14 Measuring Success 263Definitions 263How Performance Measures are Used 264How Performance Measures are Misused 264Measuring Success for Multiple Modes 270Using Performance Measures to Balance Modes 270Citywide Transportation System Measurements 277Evaluating Project Alternatives 282Additional Resources 285Chapter 15 For More Information 287Useful Online Resources 287Required Reading 288Useful Tools 289Endnotes 297Index 303

"He has written a compact, engaging, and approachable text that is ideally suited to bringing a diverse group of students up to speed on the topic and providing and a launching point for supplementary readings and discussions. This book provides an ideal overview of key issues, a helpful quick reference on design guidelines, and a long reading list for those interested in digging further into the subject." (ced.berkeley.edu, August 2012) "Sustainable Transportation Planning is an outstanding, easy to navigate source for planners of all kinds, not just transportation specialists... is an ideal book for America's many citizen-planners." (Better! Cities & Towns, April-May 2012)". . .Tumlin argues that on the whole, transportation planning has remained overly focused on engineering. If planners took a broader approach to how urban regions work, he contends, they could serve those places more economically and also enhance liveability." (Better! Cities & Towns, March 2012)"Tumlin's book starts with a provocative chapter on recent research into brain chemistry, noting how excessive driving makes us anti-social and stupid. Conversely, more walking and biking contribute to making us happier, sexier, and smarter." (Ecohome, March 2012)"Transportation planning and urban planning, mobility and accessibility don't have to be mutually exclusive anymore, and Tumlin's book is a good place to learn about sustainable transportation planning." (wrdforwrd.com, January 2012)