Product Description: While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third. In many countries the major part of intercity transport is performed by car and air and as a result, the contribution to the carbon footprint is substantially higher than the share of overall passenger transport performance...read more

Product Description: Transportation accounts for roughly a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and it remains a growing sector. This book offers practical suggestions in its analysis of the challenge transport presents today, as well as examining its role in future climate policy.

Product Description: This reference offers information to practitioners and students in the field of environmental studies, by showing key articles on the subject over the years 1979 to 1999. Topics covered include pollution, the effects of traffic on the environment, and regional and national control development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Coordination of land use and transport is one of the most important issues in urban planning from the viewpoint of transport infrastructure supply and amenity in urban space. There has been, therefore, much research conducted in the fields of empirical analysis and theoretical and mathematical modelling of the mechanisms of land use-transport interaction...read more