Ecologically Sustainable Transportation: Planning, Building, and Operations

Ecologically Sustainable Transportation: Planning, Building, and Operations provides transportation researchers, practitioners and policymakers with a consistent and cohesive examination of the local, regional and national environmental issues in sustainable transportation systems planning, development and implementation. The book compiles numerous topics together in one resource to bridge the gap between the study and practice of these interdisciplinary fields. It is an accessible resource for transportation professionals on the basics of ecology, its principles, how to connect the academic and technical literature, ecological planning, mitigation, monitoring, and the entire spectrum of road ecology issues in sustainable transportation systems. Uniquely includes coverage of the relationship between road systems and climate changeTargets the needs of both researchers and practitioners to support multiple levels of knowledge and expertiseProvides an interdisciplinary integration of transportation, sustainability and ecological, academic research with applied usageUses case studies, chapter objectives, dialogue boxes, glossaries, text boxes and online teaching resources to enhance the learning process INDICE: 1. Introduction Part 1: Planning Sustainable Transportation 2. Planning for Sustainable Transportation 3. Early Inclusion of Environment in Planning 4. System Planning and the Environment 5. Corridor and Project Planning and the Environment 6. Avoidance Mitigation Planning 7. Reduction and Offset Mitigation Planning 8. Valuation, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Financing Environmental Actions Part 2: Building Sustainable Transportation 9. Building the Environmentally-Sustainable Transportation System 10. Transportation Engineering and Atmosphere 11. Transportation Engineering and Water 12. Transportation Engineering and Plants and Soils 13. Transportation Engineering and Wildlife 14. Maintaining Mitigation Structures and Actions 15. Monitoring and Adaptive Management to Inform Sustainability

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814148-9
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés