Описание: Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably “yes” to both. Indeed, when city officials propose slashing service or raising fares, it is these riders who are often the first to appear at that officials’ door demanding their “right” to more service. Rights in Transit starts from the presumption that such riders are justified. For those who lack other means of mobility, transit is a lifeline. It offers access to many of the entitlements we take as essential: food, employment, and democratic public life itself. While accepting transit as a right, this book also suggests that there remains a desperate need to think critically, both about what is meant by a right and about the types of rights at issue when public transportation is threatened.Drawing on a detailed case study of the various struggles that have come to define public transportation in California’s East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a direct challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, Rights in Transit argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.
Addresses the Challenges Facing Public Transport Policy Makers and Operators
Public Transit Planning and Operation: Modeling, Practice and Behavior, Second Edition offers new solutions for delivering both better services and greater efficiency, solutions which have been developed and tested by the author in over thirty years of research work with mass transit policy makers and operators all over the world. It bridges the worlds of practice and research and academia, provides an overview and a critique of currently used operational planning methods, and furnishes innovative practical techniques and modeling.
Improve Service Performance and Successfully Manage the Costs of Operation
This new edition brings in new material on timetabling and vehicle scheduling with different vehicle sizes, new methods of designing transit route networks, analysis of transit coordination and connectivity, behavioral aspects of passengers including when making transfers, and innovative methods related to automation and optimization which can be used in real time to significantly improve service reliability.
Combines academic research with real-world project experience
Focuses on issues encountered in practice
Provides unique coverage of the field
Public Transit Planning and Operation: Modeling, Practice and Behavior, Second Edition incorporates a series of themes and new ways of thinking about planning and operation. Bridging the gap between theory and application, thistext outlines the factors affecting public-transport services, addresses common problems, and offers practical solutions for improvement.
Автор: Cushman Thomas Название: Handbook of Human Rights ISBN: 113801947X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138019478 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Kinley David Название: Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights ISBN: 0190691123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190691127 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Necessary Evil is a penetrating investigation into how the financial system both advances and undermines progress in human rights. It will be an indispensible read for anyone interested in how global finance can be reformed in ways that will salvage its legitimacy and fulfill its role as a human rights provider, not a vandal.
Автор: Ceccato Название: Safety and Security in Transit Environments ISBN: 1137457643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137457646 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Safety and Security in Transit Environments presents interdisciplinary studies from leading international authors. This important volume identifies key challenges and complexities in addressing security and safety concerns in transit settings, policy recommendations for prevention, and new frontiers for research at transit settings.
Автор: Nigel H.M. Wilson Название: Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling ISBN: 3540657754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540657750 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Consists of papers presented at an International Workshop on Computer Aided Scheduling of Public Transport, held in Massachusetts in 1997. It reflects the greater roles played by computers in the full spectrum of scheduling problems, and societal demand for greater access to public transport.
Название: Disaster law ISBN: 1138036439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138036437 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume:
analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground;
brings together case studies from some of the most vulnerable regions; and
proposes solutions to avert existing and possible future crises.
The book offers appropriate legal frameworks for disaster management which could not only offer sustainable institutional reforms towards community resilience and preparedness but also reduce risk within the frameworks of justice, equity and accountability. It examines the intricacies of governance within which governments function and discusses how recent trends in infrastructure development and engineering technology could be balanced within the legal principles of ethics, transparency, and integrity. The essays in the volume suggest that legal frameworks ought to resonate with new challenges of resource management and climate change. Further, these frameworks could help secure citizens' trust, institutional accountability and effective implementation through an unceasing partnership which keeps the community better prepared and more resilient.
This volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of disaster management, law, public policy, environment and development studies as well as policymakers and those in administrative, governmental, judicial and development sectors.
Автор: Tanya Basok; Dani?le B?langer; Martha Luz Rojas Wi Название: Rethinking Transit Migration ISBN: 1137509740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137509741 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants` mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US.
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