Transport truths : planning methods and ethics for global futures / Greg P. Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Greg P., author.

Series:

Urban Transport Futures Series

Urban transport futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Planning.

Transportation.

Transportation--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 153 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Ideal for researchers and practitioners looking for fresh approaches to transport problems, this book combines cutting-edge qualitative and qualitative knowledge to inform transport futures. It uses engaging case studies based in The Gambia and the US to show how and why a transdisciplinary approach can result in better planning decisions.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series page

Transport Truths: Planning Methods and Ethics for Global Futures

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes

1 Introduction: Methods and Ethics for Transport Analysis

Sociotechnical seeing for transport futures

Disciplines and disciples of transport planning

Mixed methods and the 'real world' of transport planning

The nexus of methods and ethics in transport practice

The use and misuse of knowledge for transport planning

The Legitimacy, Accessibility, Social Learning, Transparency, and Representativeness (LASTR) framework for planning truths

Contributions

2 A Biased History of Transport Futures

Economic man and the myth of pragmatism

Access as a paradigm incorporating location

Dashboards for decisions?

Public input from civil rights to crowdsourcing

A changing climate for political budgeting

Critical realism's deeper truths for transport

Assessing methods through transport codes of ethics

Artificial intelligence, bias, and prediction

Aligning natures and knowledge

3 Seeing Trees Through Random Forests

Quantitative innovation in transport planning

Big data is not all data

Descriptive understanding of micromobility

Causality and travel behavior

Machine learning for biased bicycling

Spatial heterogeneity, or, 'everything has its place'

Assessing quantitative methods through transport codes of ethics

4 Why and How Matter Now

Qualitative innovation in transport

Cross-.Atlantic interviewing for tourism transport in The Gambia

Public participation geographic information systems for local transport knowledge

Why coding matters in the age of natural language processing.

Walking through a case study on a pedestrian bridge to understand time

Storytelling about the future: Greater Philadelphia Futures Group

Reliability and generalizability of qualitative knowledge

Assessing qualitative methods through transport codes of ethics

5 Confronting Wicked Problems in Austin, Texas

From hunting trails to three-.story freeway

Resolving theories of transport agency narratives

Traffic forecasting as visioning

Digital storytelling 'My35' and 'Our Future 35'

Reconnecting communities

6 Development and Capital at the Banjul International Airport in The Gambia

Roots and The Smiling Coast

Climate for travel and tourism

Who pays? Who benefits?

Sustaining cultures

7 Triangulating Transport Knowledge

Sequencing transport truths

Challenges in full integration of transport studies

Classifying mixed-.methods designs for transport research and practice

Co-.producing knowledge with crowdsourcing

Meta-.inferences for transport truths

8 Conclusion: Speaking Truths to Power

A slow, steady rise for critical realism?

Uses and misuses of transport research in policy

Assessing the limitations of quantitative and qualitative methods

Toward a co-.productive approach for transport truths

New media for transport truths

Assessing power and progress

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5292-2749-6

1-5292-2747-X

1-5292-2748-8

OCLC:

1514437080