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Social, Environmental, and Economic Sustainability, Including 2010 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture

By: Series: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board ; 2163Publication details: Washington DC Transportation Research Board, 2010Description: 158 sISBN:
  • 9780309142939
Subject(s): Bibl.nr: VTI P8167:2163Location: TRBAbstract: This issue contains 15 papers concerned with social, environmental, and economic sustainability, as well as the 2010 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture, which considers the history and future of transportation policy as it relates to poverty and sustainability. Specific topics discussed include the following: equity implications of alternative transportation financing strategies; travel behavior patterns of different socially disadvantaged groups; American women's time use; minority civil rights and environmental justice in service delivery and reductions; measuring the jobs–housing balance; potential inequities of climate change abatement policies; transport demand management; transfer of innovative sustainability policies between cities; sustainable transport measures for a small town; green credits versus environmentally sustainable traffic operations; application of data envelopment analysis to environmentally sustainable transport policies; carbon dioxide emissions reduction; impact of transport infrastructure on firm formation; and the impact of foreign aid on local institutional systems.
Item type: Reports, conferences, monographs
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This issue contains 15 papers concerned with social, environmental, and economic sustainability, as well as the 2010 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture, which considers the history and future of transportation policy as it relates to poverty and sustainability. Specific topics discussed include the following: equity implications of alternative transportation financing strategies; travel behavior patterns of different socially disadvantaged groups; American women's time use; minority civil rights and environmental justice in service delivery and reductions; measuring the jobs–housing balance; potential inequities of climate change abatement policies; transport demand management; transfer of innovative sustainability policies between cities; sustainable transport measures for a small town; green credits versus environmentally sustainable traffic operations; application of data envelopment analysis to environmentally sustainable transport policies; carbon dioxide emissions reduction; impact of transport infrastructure on firm formation; and the impact of foreign aid on local institutional systems.