Designing mobility and transport services : developing traveller experience tools / / edited by Mike Tovey, Andree Woodcock and Jane Osmond

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 388.4094
• Soggetto topico: Urban transportation - Europe - Planning; Urban transportation policy - Europe; Local transit - Europe; Transportation - Environmental aspects - Europe
• Persona (resp. second.): ToveyMike; WoodcockAndrée <1959->; OsmondJane
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The context for the project -- pt. 2. The METPEX tools -- pt. 3. Practical applications -- pt. 4. Impact and conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic. For many people transport provision is unsatisfactory and current arrangements are leading to a deteriorating environment. A fundamental problem is that our currently fragmented approach makes it difficult to understand fully the circumstances and needs of transport users. In any overall approach public transport is a crucial component. Designing Mobility and Transport Services shows how these issues can be addressed and resolved. The development of an inclusive, validated passenger experience measurement instrument is the first step in understanding the situation and thus tackling it. It is needed if we are to create high quality, user centred, integrated, accessible public transport services, which are capable of attracting and retaining public transport users whilst meeting sustainability targets. The METPEX research project was devised to tackle these issues. Coordinated by Coventry University, the METPEX consortium brought together 16 European partners from 12 countries. The project's underlying rationale was the proposition that if transport operators and authorities were provided with a robust, reliable and tailorable means of measuring the whole multimodal passenger journey, they could improve service provision. The book describes how such an improvement can be achieved, to attract travellers out of their private vehicles, thereby reducing congestion and pollution and increasing health and well-being. It provides a template for a creative approach and a meta-design narrative in designing for transport systems to enhance mobility choices by improving the door to door journey and thus underpin sustainable transport initiatives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Designing mobility and transport services
• ISBN: 1-317-12045-0; 1-315-58729-7; 1-4724-7846-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150354203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II