Elgar encyclopedia of transport and society / edited by John D. Nelson (Transport for NSW Chair and Professor of Public Transport, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, the University of Sydney, Australia), Corinne Mulley (Professor Emerita, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, the University of Sydney, Australia), and Stephen Ison (Professor of Transport Policy, De Montfort University, UK and Honorary Professor of Transport Policy, the University of Sydney, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, John D., editor.

Mulley, Corinne, editor.

Ison, Stephen, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Social aspects.

Transportation.

Transportation--Environmental aspects.

Transportation and state.

Sustainable transportation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides an overview of the multifaceted field of transport and society. Entries explore the impact of transport planning, policy and implementation on wider societal issues, outlining key connections between transport studies and relevant cognate disciplines. Authored by close to 250 international experts, the Encyclopedia encompasses a wide range of topics, from climate change and sustainability to the contribution of transport to social inclusion, health and accessibility. Each entry deals with a carefully selected aspect of transport and society, critically engaging with core concepts and traditional modes of transportation while covering cutting-edge developments such as artificial intelligence and electric vehicles. Interdisciplinary in scope, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society is an essential resource for students and academics in transport, political geography, public policy and economic sociology. Its insights will also greatly benefit policy makers and practitioners seeking to expand their understanding of the field. Key Features: - Over 200 entries written by leading scholars and practitioners - Combines theoretical discussions with diverse global case studies and practical applications - Entries are succinct and accessible, each providing a list of references that highlights avenues for further research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface to elgar encyclopedia of transport and society / John D. Nelson, Corinne Mulley, and Stephen Ison

Accessibility measurement / Bert van Wee

Active accessibility / David Vale

Active travel and health / Jennifer L. Kent

Active travel and schools / Fiona Crawford and Asa Thomas

Advanced air mobility / Adam Cohen and Susan A. Shaheen

Aerial tramways / Axel Kühn

Aeropolitics / David Timothy Duval

Aerotropolis / Matt Faber and Isabella Kim

Ageing / Charles Musselwhite

Agglomeration economies / Corinne Mulley

Air freight and logistics / Aisling Reynolds-Feighan

Air quality / Anil Namdeo

Airline ancillary revenues / David Warnock-Smith

Airline deregulation / Kenneth Button

Airline fares / Claudio A. Piga

Airline noise / Sonia Huderek-Glapska

Airline safety / Graham Braithwaite

Airline scheduling / Cheng-Lung Wu

Airport decarbonisation / Mohammad Mehdi Kambari

Airport ground access / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

Airport infrastructure / Peter J. Forsyth and Hans-Martin Niemeier

Airport ownership / Federico Rotondo

Airport privatisation / Anne Graham

Airport security / Marina Efthymiou

Airport service quality / Anne Graham

Airports and regional development / Noel Hiney and Marina Efthymiou

Artificial intelligence / Wei-Ting Hong and Emily Moylan

Autonomous vehicles / Kara Kockelman and Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi

Aviation and the impact of covid-19 / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

Aviation climate change impacts / and adaptation / Rachel Burbidge

Benchmarking public transport / Richard Anderson

Big data and transport / Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah

Built environment and sustainable travel / Sara Haider and Jennifer L. Kent

Bus priority / Tingsen (Tim) Xian and Emily Moylan

Bus privatisation and deregulation / Jonathan Cowie

Bus rapid transit / Ricardo Giesen

Car-based sharing / Jenni Vestinen

Car-free development / Graham Parkhurst and Steve Melia

Carbon offsetting / Robert Mayer

Charter airlines / David Ramos-Pérez and Frédéric / Dobruszkes

City logistics / Michael G.H. Bell

Climate change / Maria Attard and Lucy Budd

Climate change and aviation / Tim Ryley

Coach services / Peter White

Coastal ferry / James D. Frost and Mary R. Brooks

Community transport / Tara Russell, Victoria Armstrong, and Scott Bogren

Co-modality / Veronica Schulz, Michael G.H. Bell, and Shengda Zhu

Congestion / Roger Vickerman

Contracts (public service) / Didier M. van de Velde

Crowding in public transport / Chinh Q. Ho

Cycling / John Parkin

Cycling safety / Kenneth Derryberry and Ralph Buehler

Dark kitchens / Dat Le, Michael G.H. Bell, and Glenn Geers

Dark stores / Iria González-Romero and Heleen Buldeo Rai

Data privacy / Dave Milne

Decarbonisation / Brian Caulfield

Demand-responsive transport / Steve Wright and Barbara T.H. Yen

Digital railway / Boban Djordjević

Disability / Roger Mackett

Drink driving / Natalie Watson-Brown, Barry Watson, and Mark King

Drone logistics / Matt Grote and Tom Cherrett

E-bikes / Miguel Loyola

E-cargo bikes / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

E-commerce / Valerio Gatta, Ila Maltese, and Edoardo Marcucci

Efficiency measurement / Barbara T.H. Yen

Electric vehicles / Craig Morton

Electric vehicles and social equity / Ziad Yassine and Susan A. Shaheen

Equity / Karel Martens

E-scooters / Yuting Zhang

European common transport policy / Dominic Stead

Evaluation / Glen Weisbrod

Fairness / Vanessa Ternes

Fare evasion / Sebastián Raveau

Fare-free public transport / Wojciech Kębłowski

First- and last-mile connection / Christoffel Venter

Flight shame / Steven Griggs and David Howarth

Food logistics / Michael Bourlakis and Emmanuel Sawyerr

Forced car ownership / Angela Curl

Freight transport decarbonisation / Lóránt Tavasszy

Freight transport policy / Jason Monios

Frequent flyer programmes / Sveinn Vidar Gudmundsson and Evert de Boer

Full-service network carriers / Yue Hu and Frank Witlox

Gender / Lucy Budd

Generalised cost / Roger Vickerman

Gentrification / Lara K. Mottee

Gig economy / Geraint Harvey, Naveena Prakasam, and Refat Shakirzhanov

Global south / Maria de Fátima S.R. Arthur and Iara Luisa Magalhães Popinsky

Governance / Wijnand Veeneman

Guided busway systems / Frits Olyslagers

Hazardous materials transport by rail / Chen-Yu Lin

Healthcare and urban logistics / Liz Breen and Sarah Schiffling

High-speed rail / Roberto Palacin

Home deliveries / Leon Booth and Simone Pettigrew

Humanitarian logistics / Tamara Kirkwood-Wright and Claire Louise Travers

Indigenous transport / David Denmark

Induced demand / John Stanley and David A. Hensher

Informal passenger transport / Brendan Finn

Infrastructure investment / Martin Locke

Infrastructure planning / Andres Monzon and Elena Lopez

Integrating passenger and freight transport / Silvio Nocera, Francesco Bruzzone, and Federico Cavallaro

Intelligent mobility / Stephen Potter, Matthew Cook, and Miguel Valdez

Intercity railways / Simon Blainey

Islands / Maria Attard

Islands ferries / Maria Lekakou

Journey planners / John D. Nelson

Land-use planning / Jianqiang Cui

Land-use planning and parking / Kendall Banfield

Land value uplift and capture / Corinne Mulley and Barbara T.H. Yen

Last-mile delivery / Takanori Sakai

Light rail / Axel Kühn

Logistics management / Tony Whiteing

Low-cost carriers / Richard Klophaus

Low-traffic neighbourhoods / Asa Thomas

Maritime decarbonisation / Aykut I. Ölçer and Levent Bilgili

Micromobility / Margaret Winchcomb and Lorna Stevenson

Microtransit / Steve Wright

Mobilities / Peter Adey

Mobility as a service (maas) / David A. Hensher

Mobility hubs / Thomas Arnold and Andrew Timmis

Mobility poverty / Tobias Kuttler and Massimo Moraglio

Mobility technologies and space reallocation / Milos N. Mladenović

Multimodality / Rumana Sarker

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Noise / Abigail L. Bristow and Kirill V. Horoshenkov

Off-street parking / David King

Omnichannel logistics / Heleen Buldeo Rai

On-street parking / Rachel Weinberger

Parcel deliveries / Russell G. Thompson

Park-and-ride / Graham Parkhurst

Parking pricing / Donald Shoup

Participatory planning / Edoardo Marcucci, Ila Maltese, and Valerio Gatta

Pedestrian safety / Dilum Dissanayake and Priyantha Wedagama

Pedestrians / Grigorios Fountas and Achille Fonzone

Persons with reduced mobility / Bryan Matthews

Placemaking / Courtney Babb

Planning philosophy / Axel Kühn

Planning public transport / Peter White

Point-to-point transport / Miguel Loyola and Joseph Rodriguez

Project prioritisation / Glen Weisbrod

Public engagement / Michela Le Pira

Public service obligations (psos) / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

Public transport accessibility / Carey Curtis and Jan Scheurer

Public transport and the impact of covid-19 / Takeru Shibayama

Public transport concessions and franchising / David Ashmore

Public transport crime / Vania Ceccato

Public transport decarbonisation / Eleanor Short

Public transport fares / Marco Batarce

Public transport integration / Corinne Mulley and John D. Nelson

Public transport interchange / Barbara T.H. Yen and Robert B.C. Liu

Public transport network planning / Corinne Mulley and John D. Nelson

Quality bus partnerships / Jon Parker and Richard Wellings

Rail decarbonisation / Roberto Palacin

Rail freight / Chen-Yu Lin

Rail network planning / Nigel G. Harris

Rail privatisation / John Preston

Rail regulation / Andrew Smith and Chris Nash

Rail safety / Wei-Ting Hong

Rail service planning / Nigel G. Harris

Railway infrastructure / Nathan Darroch

Real-time passenger information / Achille Fonzone, Grigorios Fountas, and Arkadiusz Drabicki

Regional air services / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

Regional airlines / Silke J. Forbes

Regional airports / Jolien Pauwels

Retail deliveries / Leigh Sparks

Revealed and stated preference / Camila Balbontin

Road infrastructure / James Reynolds

Road user charging / Georgina Santos

Road user charging acceptance / Neil Thorpe

Road user charging incentives / Michiel C.J.

Bliemer and Allister Loder

Robotics / Brendan Doody

Rural co-modality / Chia-Chen Wu

Rural public transport / John D. Nelson

Rural transport planning / Laurie Pickup and Mike Axon

Safety / Mark Beecroft

School travel / Fiona Crawford

Security / Mark Beecroft

Self-service check-in / Charukit Chaiwan

Service quality for passengers / Nguyen Van Truong, Tetsuo Shimizu, and Pham Duy Hoang

Severance / Paulo Anciaes

Shared autonomous vehicles / Arkar Than Win

Shared space / Abdullah Zareh Andaryan

Smart cards / Jan-Dirk Schmöcker

Social dilemmas / Ewelina Marek-Andrzejewska

Social exclusion / John Stanley.

and Janet Stanley

Social media data / Susan Grant-Muller

Social railways / Torben Holvad and Anna Gigantino

Spatial proximity / Dominic Stead

Subsidy / John Preston

Suburban railways / James Reynolds

Sustainable transport / Erling Holden and Geoffrey Gilpin

Sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) / Dominic Stead and Dena Kasraian

Sustainable urban travel behaviour in the developing world / Ashish Verma and Furqan A. Bhat

Taxi and private hire / Matthew W. Daus

Telecommuting/teleworking / Hannah Budnitz

Tolls / Svein Bråthen and James Odeck

Tourism / David Timothy Duval

Trade unions and transport / Geraint Harvey and Peter Turnbull

Traffic control / Yu-Chiun Chiou

Tramways / Axel Kühn

Trans-European transport networks / Dominic Stead

Transit-oriented developments (TODs) / Anoulack Chanthivong

Transport activism / Rebecca Clements and Crystal Legacy

Transport and economic growth / Mike Salter

Transport and health / Melanie Crane and Yvonne Laird

Transport planning / Dimitris Potoglou

Transport policy / Dominic Stead

Transport technology and society / Glenn Lyons

Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) / Roger F. Teal

Travel behaviour / Veronique Van Acker

Travel behaviour change / Elizabeth Ampt

Travel for its own sake / Hannah Hook

Travel time / Zheng Li and Chenyang Wu

Travel with dogs / Jennifer L. Kent and Corinne Mulley

Trolleybus / Michał Wolański

Ultra-low emissions zones (uLEZ) / Benjamin Heydecker

Underground railways / Dong Lin and Jianqiang Cui

Urban consolidation centres / Konstantina Katsela and Michael Browne

Urban freight / Michael Browne and Konstantina Katsela

Urban freight and the impact of COVID-19 / Sandra Melo and Kenneth Button

Urban planning / Andrew Timmis

Vibration / Matthew Frost and Ashraf El-Hamalawi

Visual intrusion / Like Jiang

Walking / Tim Jones

Waterbus / Shengda Zhu and Veronica Schulz

Wayfinding and wayshowing / Barbara T.H. Yen and Robert B.C. Liu

Wellbeing / Louise Reardon

Working from home / Matthew J. Beck

Workplace parking levy / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

Workplace travel plans / Sue Wiblin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035330522 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.