Transportation and Economic Development Challenges [Elektronisk resurs]

• CONTENTS; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The relationship between megaregions and megapolitans:transportation planning for the two scales; 3 The global economic crisis, investment in transportinfrastructure, and economic development; 4 Distance in the existence of political pathologies: rationalizedtransport policies and trade; 5 Access to rail in urban areas: examination of the numberof stations; 6 Parcel distribution networks for online shopping business; 7 Discussion of the necessity of accessibility standards: theGerman 'Guidelines for Integrated Network Design' (RIN). 
• 8 Transportation planning of the future: mitigating GHGsin the US through green litigation9 Matching words and deeds? How transit- oriented are theBloomberg- era rezonings in New York City?; 10 Policymaking on waterside industrial sites: an empiricalstudy for Flanders; Index. 

• Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuel-efficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines such as traffic management and supply chain logistics. The contributions to this volume assess transportation interactions with employment and income, examine some of the policies that have been deployed to maximize the economic and social impacts of transportation provision at the local and regional levels and analyze how advances in transportation technologies h 

Ämnesord

Computational intelligence. 

Logistics. 

Transportation. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HE152.6 (LCC)

380.59 (DDC)

Qi (kssb/8 (machine generated))