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Download e-book for iPad: Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future by John L. Renne,Billy Fields,Gilbert E. Carmichael,David Gates

By John L. Renne,Billy Fields,Gilbert E. Carmichael,David Gates Burwell,Neil Sipe,Todd Litman,Deborah Gordon,Deron Lovaas,Jago Dodson,Robert Noland,Christopher Hanson,Joanne R. Potter,Bradley W. Lane,Projjal K. Dutta,Petra E. Todorovich Messick,Edward Burges

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ISBN-13: 9781610910415

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ISBN-13: 9781610910439

Seventy percentage of the oil the United States makes use of every year is going to transportation. that implies that the nationwide oil habit and all its results, from weather switch to disastrous spills to dependence on international markets, might be drastically lowered through altering the way in which we circulate. In Transport past Oil, prime specialists in transportation, making plans, improvement, and coverage convey the way to accomplish that basic shift.

 

The authors show that smarter improvement and land-use judgements, paired with higher transportation structures, can shrink strength intake. John Renne calculates how oil should be kept via a destiny with extra transit-oriented improvement. Petra Todorovitch examines the promise of high-speed rail. Peter Newman imagines a destiny with out oil for car-dependent towns and areas. extra subject matters comprise investment transit, freight delivery, and nonmotorized transportation structures. every one bankruptcy presents coverage prescriptions and their measurable results.

 

Transport past Oil offers functional strategies, in accordance with quantitative info. This fact-based procedure deals a brand new imaginative and prescient of transportation that's either transformational and achievable.

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Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future by John L. Renne,Billy Fields,Gilbert E. Carmichael,David Gates Burwell,Neil Sipe,Todd Litman,Deborah Gordon,Deron Lovaas,Jago Dodson,Robert Noland,Christopher Hanson,Joanne R. Potter,Bradley W. Lane,Projjal K. Dutta,Petra E. Todorovich Messick,Edward Burges


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