A new deal for transport? : the UK's struggle with the sustainable transport agenda / edited by Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Docherty, Iain.

Shaw, Jon.

Series:

RGS-IBG book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation and state--Great Britain.

Transportation and state.

Transportation--Environmental aspects.

Transportation.

Great Britain.

Transportation--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Summary:

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this book offers a critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation.The volume is divided into three sections. The first section reviews links between sustainability and transport policy, and examines the political realities surrounding the delivery of a sustainable transport agenda. The second focuses on progress in policy implementation, evaluating the extent to which Labour's own policy goals have been achieved. The final section looks at the likely trajectory of sustainable transport policy in the UK until 2010. The book includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.Firmly rooted within an appreciation of the politics of transport, this book will make a valuable contribution to debates about future policy.

Contents:

Policy, politics and sustainable transport: the nature of Labour's dilemma / Iain Docherty

Devolution and sustainable transport / Austin Smyth

Local transport planning under Labour / Geoff Vigar and Dominic Stead

Roads and traffic congestion policies : one step forward, two steps back / William Walton

A railway renaissance? / Jon Shaw and John Farrington

Light rail and the London underground / Richard Knowles and Peter White

A "thoroughbred" in the making? the bus industry under Labour / John Preston

Ubiquitous, everyday walking and cycling : the acid test of a sustainable transport policy / Rodney Tolley

Air transport policy: reconciling growth and sustainability? / Brian Graham

Towards a genuinely sustainable transport agenda for the United Kingdom / Phil Goodwin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405106301

140510631X

OCLC:

51505816