Car-Free Mobility: Creating Seamless Public Transport Networks

Improvements in public transport networks are key components of environmentally sustainable transport, efficient urban and suburban development, and equal opportunities for citizens. Public Transport Network Planning and Design: Principles and Strategies features the latest principles in transport network design, assisting transportation researchers, and planners with understanding and designing the most effective, and technologically advanced, networks serving modern societies. Public Transport Network Planning and Design: Principles and Strategies provides practical examples of the principles of public transport planning and design from different parts of the world, through case studies, and the latest transportation research, and theoretical analysis. Transportation researchers, planners, policy makers, and administrators will find advice on the required investments for quality public transport network implementation in a variety of geographic settings. Public Transport Network Planning and Design: Principles and Strategies discusses the latest research on various types of demand-responsive public transport, paratransit, and flexible transport services. The book covers the impact the latest information technology, smart phones, and business models have had on public transport, as their likely continued impact in the future. Reviews the latest academic research, helping bridge the gap between research and transport network practical applications in cities and regions throughout the worldDiscusses solutions for a wide variety of community sizes, from large cities, to suburbs and rural districtsFeatures universal design principles, such as mathematics, geometry, technology, logistics, and economics, learned from the UK's HITRANS project, and other, similar projects, with expanded discussion of heavy metro, suburban, and regional rail and bus services INDICE: 1. A Guide to the Guide 2. Network Planning in an Urban or Rural region 3. Clarifying Aims and Goals 4. Understanding Market and User Requirements 5. Theoretical Basis for Network Planning 6. Choosing Appropriate Mode Choice 7. Defining Simple Network Concepts 8. Designing a Network of Scheduled, High Frequency services 9. Coordinated and Integrated Pulse Services 10. Flexible, On-demand Services 11. Creating Interchanges for Seamless Travel 12. Creating a Rational Planning Process

• ISBN: 978-0-12-815895-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés