Docherty / Shaw A New Deal for Transport?

The UK's struggle with the sustainable transport agenda
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77536-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volumeoffers a critical commentary on the government's sustainabletransport policy.

* A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainabletransport policy and its implementation.

* Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of thiscontroversial field.

* Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the keyissues.

* Will inform debate over the future of transport policy.

* Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission forIntegrated Transport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Docherty, Iain

Shaw, Jon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface ix
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xiv
Preface xviii
List of Abbreviations xxii
Part I Policy and Politics 1
1 Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour's Dilemma 3
Iain Docherty
2 Devolution and Sustainable Transport 30
Austin Smyth
3 Local Transport Planning under Labour 51
Geoff Vigar and Dominic Stead
Part II Progress in Policy Implementation 73
4 Roads and Traffic Congestion Policies: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 75
William Walton
5 A Railway Renaissance? 108
Jon Shaw and John Farrington
6 Light Rail and the London Underground 135
Richard Knowles and Peter White
7 A 'Thoroughbred' in the Making? The Bus Industry under Labour 158
John Preston
8 Ubiquitous, Everyday Walking and Cycling: The Acid Test of a Sustainable Transport Policy 178
Rodney Tolley
9 Air Transport Policy: Reconciling Growth and Sustainability? 198
Brian Graham
Part III The Future 227
10 Towards a Genuinely Sustainable Transport Agenda for the United Kingdom 229
Phil Goodwin
Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

Iain Docherty is a Research Fellow in the Department ofUrban Studies at the University of Glasgow and an expert in urbangovernance, particularly the implementation of planning andtransport policies. His previous publications include MakingTracks (1999), which looks at the transport planning system inmajor British cities.
Jon Shaw is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography andEnvironment at the University of Aberdeen. His recent work hasexamined the privatization of British Rail and road building inEngland. He is the author of Competition, Regulation and thePrivatisation of British Rail (2000) and co-editor of AllChange: British Railway Privatisation (2000).