| Transportation & Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues, Examples, and Solutions Contributor(s): Toor, Will (Author), Havlick, Spenser (Author) |
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ISBN: 1559636564 ISBN-13: 9781559636568 Publisher: Island Press OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Colleges and universities across North America are facing difficult questions about automobile use and transportation. Lack of land for new parking lots and the desire to preserve air quality are but a few of the factors leading institutions toward a new vision based upon expanded transit access, better bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and incentives that encourage less driving. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities presents a comprehensive examination of techniques available to manage transportation in campus communities. Authors Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick give readers the understanding they need to develop alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles, and sets forth a series of case studies that show how transportation demand management programs have worked in a variety of campus communities, ranging from small towns to large cities. The case studies in Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities highlight what works and what doesn't, as well as describing the programmatic and financial aspects involved. No other book has surveyed the topic and produced viable options for reducing the parking, pollution, land use, and traffic problems that are created by an over-reliance on automobiles by students, faculty, and staff. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities is a unique source of information and ideas for anyone concerned with transportation planning and related issues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Transportation | Public Transportation - Education | Administration - General |
| Dewey: 378.198 |
| LCCN: 2003024793 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.14" W x 8.84" (0.95 lbs) 293 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Colleges and universities across North America are facing difficult questions about automobile use and transportation. Lack of land for new parking lots and the desire to preserve air quality are but a few of the factors leading institutions toward a new vision based upon expanded transit access, better bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and incentives that encourage less driving. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities presents a comprehensive examination of techniques available to manage transportation in campus communities. Authors Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick give readers the understanding they need to develop alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles, and sets forth a series of case studies that show how transportation demand management programs have worked in a variety of campus communities, ranging from small towns to large cities. The case studies in Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities highlight what works and what doesn't, as well as describing the programmatic and financial aspects involved. No other book has surveyed the topic and produced viable options for reducing the parking, pollution, land use, and traffic problems that are created by an over-reliance on automobiles by students, faculty, and staff. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities is a unique source of information and ideas for anyone concerned with transportation planning and related issues. |
Contributor Bio(s): Havlick, Spenser: - Spenser Havlick recently retired as Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in environmental planning and water resource management.Toor, Will: - Will Toor served as Mayor of the city of Boulder, Director of the University of Colorado Environmental Center and was a professor of environmental and transportation policy, geology and general environmental issues at the University of Colorado. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. |
