Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities.

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FRONT COVER; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT FOR CHINESE CITIES; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION AND THE GLOBAL AND CHINESE CONTEXT; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION; THE GLOBAL CONTEXT; THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE; THE CHINESE CONTEXT; APPROACHES TO POLICY FORMULATION; TRAFFIC AND PASSENGER TRANSPORT; FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 PROJECTING GLOBAL URBANIZATION AND THE GROWTH OF MEGACITIES; INTRODUCTION; POPULATION SCENARIOS IN IPCC SRES AND IIASA-GGI DATABASE; URBAN GROWTH MODEL; CITY SIZE DISTRIBUTION AND EXPONENT PARAMETER.

LOCATION SUITABILITY FOR CITY LOCATIONDISCUSSIONS ON MODELLING AND DATA QUALITY; PROJECTION OF CITY POPULATION USING SRES SCENARIOS; MEGACITIES IN CHINA; CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3 IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRAVEL POLICIES IN CHINA; INTRODUCTION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY FRAMEWORK; INTEGRATION OF URBAN TRAVEL AND LAND-USE POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SOCIAL EQUITY ISSUES IN TRANSPORT; ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH REDUCED MOBILITY; PUBLIC TRANSPORT FINANCE; NON-MOTORIZED TRANSPORT; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES.

SECTION 2: APPROACHES TO POLICY FORMULATIONCHAPTER 4 THE THREE STAGES OF ACCESSIBILITY: THE COMING CHALLENGE OF URBAN MOBILITY; INTRODUCTION; ACCESSIBILITY: A POWERFUL CONCEPT FACING THE CHALLENGES OF URBAN MOBILITY; FROM TIME GAINS TO LAND-USE PRIORITIES: THE THREE STAGES OF ACCESSIBILITY; DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE SAME URBAN ACCESSIBILITY CHALLENGE; CONCLUDING REMARKS: WHEN COLLECTIVE LAND-USE PRIORITIES SHAPE ACCESSIBILITY SUPPLY!; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION IN CHINA; DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND AND CHALLENGES.

STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING GREEN TRANSPORTATIONDOMESTIC PRACTICES; EXISTING PROBLEMS AND PATHS TOWARD IMPROVEMENT; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 MANAGING URBAN MOBILITY SYSTEMS THROUGH A CROSS-ASSESSMENT MODEL WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF LAND-USE AND TRANSPORT INTEGRATION; INTRODUCTION; ANALYTICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORT; STRATEGIC CROSS-ASSESSMENT MODEL; CROSS-ASSESSMENT OF TRANSPORT STRATEGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON URBAN STRUCTURE; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7 DELIVERING A MORE SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT THROUGH TRANSPORT POLICY PACKAGES.

THE CHALLENGE OF GREEN URBAN TRANSPORTTHE DESIGN OF POLICY PACKAGES; PREDICTIVE RESEARCH ON OPTIMAL POLICY PACKAGES; OPTIMAL LEVELS FOR INDIVIDUAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS; SYNERGY BETWEEN INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMAL COMBINATIONS OF INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMAL COMBINATIONS UNDER CONSTRAINTS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS; IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINESE CITIES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8 DELIVERING TRANSPORT POLICY CHANGE IN CHINA: LESSONS FROM THE UK; INTRODUCTION; TRANSPORT POLICY AT THE STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL LEVELS; POLICY CHANGE AT THE STRATEGIC LEVEL.

TRANSPORT POLICY CHANGE AT THE TACTICAL LEVEL.

The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010.

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