| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Transport and mobility series
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Transport and mobility series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Sustainable transport and institutional barriers -- The irrationality of path dependence -- Transport planning in Australia -- How organizations shape infrastructure : roads organizations -- How organizations shape infrastructure : public transport planning -- Transport plans in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth -- The discourse of roads -- The discourse of public transport -- Stakeholder groups -- Contemporary mental models -- Overcoming the barriers. |
| Summary |
Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. The findings are applicable to most cities of the developed world, and to fields beyond transport planning. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban transportation -- Environmental aspects.
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Urban transportation -- Environmental aspects. |
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Urban transportation. |
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Urban transportation policy.
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Urban transportation policy. |
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Urban transportation -- Social aspects.
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Urban transportation -- Social aspects. |
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Sustainable development.
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Sustainable development. |
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Urban transportation policy -- Australia.
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Australia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Low, Nicholas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Curtis, Carey. Institutional barriers to sustainable transport. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012 9780754676928 (DLC) 2012012829 (OCoLC)786273284 |
| ISBN |
9780754693901 (electronic book) |
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0754693902 (electronic book) |
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1283591006 |
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9781283591003 |
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9780754676928 |
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0754676927 |
| Standard No. |
(YBP)9644186 |
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