Colin Divall - Transport Policy: Learning Lessons From History

Transport Policy: Learning Lessons From History — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Transport Policy: Learning Lessons From History" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...71

TRANSPORT POLICY: LEARNING LESSONS FROM HISTORY

Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History

Edited by

COLIN DIVALL

University of York, UK

JULIAN HINE

University of Ulster, UK

COLIN POOLEY

Lancaster University, UK

First published 2016 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 2016 Colin Divall, Julian Hine, Colin Pooley and the contributors

Colin Divall, Julian Hine and Colin Pooley have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Divall, Colin, author. | Hine, Julian, author. | Pooley, Colin G., author.

Title: Transport policy : learning lessons from history / by Colin Divall, Julian Hine and Colin Pooley.

Description: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2016. | Series: Transport and society | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015025163| ISBN 9781472460059 |

Subjects: LCSH: Transportation and state--History.

Classification: LCC HE151 .D59 2016 | DDC 388--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015025163

ISBN 9781472460059 (hbk)

Contents

Colin Divall, Julian Hine and Colin Pooley

Bert Toussaint

Frances Hodgson

Colin Pooley

Aoife Ahern and Julian Hine

Hiroki Shin

Colin Divall

Bill Luckin

Nicola Forsdike

Martin Higginson

Peter Lyth

Colin Divall, Julian Hine and Colin Pooley

Aoife Ahern completed a PhD in transportation at University College London in 2001, following a degree in civil engineering from Trinity College Dublin. She is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University College Dublin and is a member of the Irish Transport Research Network Committee, of which she was chair from 2010 to 2013. She has also been the honorary secretary of the Institute of Highway and Transportation Engineers (Irish branch) and has participated in a number of European and Irish projects, including FP7 project Optimism, looking at national travel statistics and the role of ICT in encouraging more sustainable travel. Current research interests include the impact of the recent housing boom on transport infrastructure and travel needs, the interactions between residential self-selection and commuter travel, and equity issues relating to transport.

Colin Divall is a professor of railway studies at the University of York, UK, and was head of the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History for 19 years from its founding jointly with the National Railway Museum in 1995. His recent projects have looked at the marketing of passenger travel by Britains railways since the late nineteenth century, the shift from rail- to road-based distribution in the twentieth century, and the politics of railway closures in the Beeching era. He has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters and five books, the most recent being the edited collections: Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities (Pickering and Chatto 2015) and, with R. Roth, From Rail to Road and Back Again? A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency (Ashgate 2015). As a member of the History and Policy network in 201415 he co-facilitated workshops on Framing Infrastructure Policy: The Lessons of British Railways 195575 for the UKs Civil Service Learning, Department for Transport and HM Treasury.

Nicola Forsdike is a Chartered Marketer and has some 28 years experience in practising marketing, particularly within the area of transport. Joining British Rail in 1988 she worked in a variety of posts covering product management, the development of advertising campaigns, the delivery of market research and marketing planning. She was a member of the team that implemented the Regional Railways identity and led the development of the Northern Spirit brand. Since 2000 she has worked in consultancy, leading the development of business and marketing strategies for transport and infrastructure companies across three continents.

Martin Higginson, proprietor of Martin Higginson Transport Research & Consultancy, is a public transport economist whose career spans operational management, policy advice and academia. He was formerly London Transport senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London; visiting fellow at the Transport Operations Research Group at Newcastle University; and an associate of the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History, York. He is a member of the Transport Economics Commission of the International Public Transport Association (UITP). His historical publications include: as editor, Tramway London: Background to the Abandonment of Londons Trams, 19311952 (Birkbeck College with London Transport Museum 1993); The Evolution of Municipal Trading (Roads & Road Transport History Association 2006 Conference Papers, RRTHA, 2007); and, edited with C. Mulley, Companion to Road Passenger Transport History (RRTHA 2013).

Julian Hine is a professor of transport at the Built Environment Research Institute and School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster. His research focuses on transport planning and policy, mobility and transport disadvantage, travel behaviour, and pedestrian behaviour and safety. He has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters and three books: with F. Mitchell, Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion: Exclusionary Mechanisms in Transport in Urban Scotland (Ashgate 2003); with F. Raje, M. Grieco and J. Preston, Transport, Demand Management and Social Inclusion (Ashgate 2004); and, edited with J. Preston, Integrated Futures and Transport Choices: UK Transport Policy Beyond the 1998 White Paper (Ashgate 2003).

Frances Hodgson currently provides leadership to research in mobilities at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK. A sociologist by training, she has an MSc in transport planning and engineering and is a senior research fellow. She has 20 years of experience in researching travel and has specialist knowledge in the area of walking, skills, social networks, new information technology and social research methods. Her current research work focuses on Web 2.0 applications and transport exploring its potential for the travel of older people and its interaction with incentives for different communities and transport systems. Her work has been funded by a variety of national and international funders.

Next page

1234567...71

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Transport Policy: Learning Lessons From History»

Look at similar books to Transport Policy: Learning Lessons From History. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Theo Kiriazids

European Transport: Problems and Policies

Julian Hine

Integrated Futures and Transport Choices: UK Transport Policy Beyond the 1998 White Paper and Transport Acts

Gianluca Crippa

Transport, Fluids, and Mixing

Onno Van Nijf

Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World (Routledge Revivals): A Sourcebook

Liana Giorgi

Transport Policy and Research: What Future?

Emin Tengström

Towards Environmental Sustainability?: A Comparative Study of Danish, Dutch and Swedish Transport Policies in a European Context

Leigh Glover

Community-Owned Transport

Christian Wolmar

Are Trams Socialist?: Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

Marin Marinov

Sustainable Rail Transport

Goetz A.R.

The Geographies of Air Transport

Karel Martens

Transport Justice: Designing fair transportation systems

Brian T. Bayliss

Transport policy and planning: an integrated analytical approach, Volume 68

Discussion, reviews of the book Transport Policy: Learning Lessons From History and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.