Institutional barriers to sustainable transport [[electronic resource] /] / Carey Curtis, Nicholas Low
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| Autore: |
Curtis Carey
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| Titolo: |
Institutional barriers to sustainable transport [[electronic resource] /] / Carey Curtis, Nicholas Low
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| Pubblicazione: | Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 388.4/042 |
| Soggetto topico: | Urban transportation - Environmental aspects |
| Urban transportation policy | |
| Urban transportation - Social aspects | |
| Sustainable development | |
| Urban transportation policy - Australia | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
LowNicholas
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Sustainable transport and institutional barriers -- The irrationality of path dependence -- Transport planning in Australia -- How organizations shape infrastructure : roads organizations -- How organizations shape infrastructure : public transport planning -- Transport plans in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth -- The discourse of roads -- The discourse of public transport -- Stakeholder groups -- Contemporary mental models -- Overcoming the barriers. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. The findings are applicable to mo |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Institutional barriers to sustainable transport |
| ISBN: | 1-317-11587-2 |
| 1-317-11586-4 | |
| 1-283-59100-6 | |
| 9786613903457 | |
| 0-7546-9390-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462256603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Transport and Mobility