Sustainable urban transport / / edited by Maria Attard, Yoram Shiftan ; contributors, Elisabete Arsenio [and twenty two others]

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 388
• Soggetto topico: Urban transportation - Environmental aspects; Sustainable urban development
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): AttardMaria; ShiftanYoram; ArsenioElisabete
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Sustainable Urban Transport; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Transport and Sustainability Editorial Board; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1 Sustainable Urban Transport - An Introduction; Introduction; Definitions of Sustainable Mobility; Sustainable Mobility in the European Context; Outline of the Book; Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 The Economic Assessment of Health Benefits of Active Transport; Introduction; Health Benefits' Assessment of Active Transport; Benefits and Costs of Active Transport; Magnitude of the Health Effects of Active Transport ; Inclusion of Health Benefits in Active Transport AppraisalThe WHO Health Economic Assessment (HEAT) Method; Assessing the Health Benefits of Walking in the City of Viana do Castelo; Transport, Health and Mobility Policies; Data Collection and Analysis; Results: Health Benefits of Walking for Alternative Scenarios; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 Mode Decisions and Context Change - What About the Attitudes? A Conceptual Framework; Introduction; Mode Choice Decisions; Situational Factors; Personal Factors; Theory of Planned Behaviour and Requirements, Opportunities, Abilities ; Attitudes and Mode ChoiceDefinition of Attitudes in Psychology; Implementation and Operationalisation of Attitudes in Mobility Research; Attitude Change; Theory of Cognitive Dissonance; Habits, Key Events and Mode Choice; Discussion, Conclusion and Further Research; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 4 The Influence of Parent's Perceptions and Residential Self-Selection to the Children's Travel Modes at Single Par...; Introduction; Data and Sample Profiles; The Proposed Model Structure; The Estimated Model Results; The Interactions of Travel Patterns between Parents ; The Children Travel PatternsParents' Perceptions and Satisfaction and Household Members' Travel Mode Choice; Household Residential Self-Selection and Household Members' Travel Mode Choice; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 5 Children's Independent Mobility in Israel: Case Study of the Arab Population Group; Introduction; Background - The Israeli Arab Population; Method; Results; The Six Licenses of Independent Mobility; The Journey to and from School; Non-School Travel and Activities; Perception of Safety and Local Area ; The Influence of Different Factors on Independent MobilityChildren's Range of Activities; Discussion and Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix: Estimation Results Of the Logistic and Linear Regression for the Six Licenses; Chapter 6 The Malta Bus Service Reform: Implications for Policy from a 'Natural Experiment' of Attitudes towards Bus Servic...; Introduction; Literature Review; Bus Use; Service Quality; Modal Shift; Bus Service Reforms; Malta: An Overview; Land Transport Policy in Malta; The Need for a Bus Reform in the Local Policy Context; The Malta Bus Reform; Research Methodology ; Population Sample and Data Collection
• Sommario/riassunto: This publication brings together an international group of researchers and presents work from different countries dealing with issues related to transport policy, attitudes and mode choice, car sharing and alternative modes of transport, and discusses the future of non-motorized modes of transport.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sustainable urban transport
• ISBN: 1-78441-615-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460977303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transport and sustainability ; ; Volume 7.