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The Geography of Urban Transportation

Derek W. Thompson, Susan Hanson

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I. Setting the Scene 1. The Context of Urban Travel: Concepts and Recent Trends, Susan Hanson 2. City Interactions: The Dynamics of Passenger and Freight Flows, Thomas R. Leinbach 3. Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis, Peter O. Muller 4. Impact of Information Technologies, Donald G. Janelle II. Planning for Movement within Cities 5. The Urban Transportation Planning Process, Robert A. Johnston 6. Reflections on the Planning Process, Martin Wachs 7. GIS in Urban-Regional Transportation Planning, Timothy L. Nyerges III. Policy Issues 8. Public Transportation, John Pucher 9. Land Use Impacts of Transportation Investments Highway and Transit, Genevieve Guiliano 10. Transportation and Energy, David L. Greene 11. The Geography of Urban Transportation Finance, Brian D. Taylor 12. Social and Environmental Justice Issues in Urban Transportation, Devajyoti Deka 13. Transportaton and the Environment, Christine Bae 14. Managing the Auto, Genevieve Giuliano and Susan Hanson

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Key concepts: Geography, Economic geography, Urban geography, Environmental planning, Urban planning, Ecology, Biology