The Transport System and Transport Policy: An Introduction, Second Edition

This extensively updated textbook introduces the transport system and its societal impacts in a holistic and multidisciplinary way. A timely second edition, it includes new analyses of travel behaviour and the transport system’s impacts on health and well-being.

Key Features:

• Guidance for transport policy evaluation methods and modelling approaches
• Systematic approach to analysing higher-order impacts of interventions in the transport system
• Discussion of topical issues in transport policy, including analysis of current transport innovations
• The use of case studies to highlight interconnected aspects of the transport system and their relevance to decision making
• Exploration of the role of transport systems in providing accessibility and their impact on the environment, safety, health and well-being

International in scope, this textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying disciplines such as transport policy and transport geography. It will also be useful to the professionals and policymakers in the transport industry.

Edited by Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Jan Anne Annema, Associate Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography and the Environment and Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK and Baiba Pudāne, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands