Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management (Springer Texts in Business and Economics) - Hardcover

Gudmundsson, Henrik; Hall, Ralph P.; Marsden, Greg; Zietsman, Josias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3662469235 ISBN 13: 9783662469231

Publisher: Springer, 2015

Synopsis

This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, indicators and frameworks for measuring sustainable development in the transportation sector are developed. In the second, the authors analyze actual planning and decision-making in transportation agencies in a variety of governance settings. This analysis of real-world case studies demonstrates the benefits and limitations of current approaches to sustainable development in transportation. The book concludes with a discussion on how to make sustainability count in transportation decision-making and practice.

About this title

About the Author:

Henrik Gudmundsson is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Transport at the Technical University of Denmark. He has a PhD in Business Economics from Copenhagen Business School. Henrik s main areas of research and teaching is sustainable transport policy, planning, and assessment. He has held leading positions in several national and European research projects and is the author of articles publishes in international scientific journals on transportation, environment, and planning.

Ralph Hall is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He has a PhD in Technology, Management, and Policy from MIT. Ralph's research and teaching interests focus on applying the concept of sustainable development to infrastructure with a specific emphasis on transportation, water supply, and sanitation systems. He is the co-author of the textbook Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State.

Greg Marsden is Professor of Transport Governance and Director of the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests relate to the why and how of policy making and in particular the interaction between different agents and agencies in the policy process. He works extensively on issues surrounding climate change, resilience and energy in the transport sector (and beyond).He is an Editor of the Journal of Transport Policy.

Josias Zietsman is Head of the Environment and Air Quality Division at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and serves on the Graduate Faculty of Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research and teaching interests encompass transportation and the environment. He has led several high-profile projects inthe area of transportation and sustainability and is an active member in the research community.

Review:

“Gudmundsson et al. have written a text aimed at graduate-level students and transportation industry personnel to consider the myriad ways in which to apply more sustainable principles to transportation policies and practices. ... This thoughtful, excellently planned book may be written for transportation practitioners and transit students, but the lessons within it should matter to everyone who drives a car, or takes a bus, train, or plane.” (Bernice Glenn, Computing Reviews, December, 2015)

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3662469235
• ISBN 13: 9783662469231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317