Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming

Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 945
Release: 1992-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309043867
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Global warming continues to gain importance on the international agenda and calls for action are heightening. Yet, there is still controversy over what must be done and what is needed to proceed. Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming describes the information necessary to make decisions about global warming resulting from atmospheric releases of radiatively active trace gases. The conclusions and recommendations include some unexpected results. The distinguished authoring committee provides specific advice for U.S. policy and addresses the need for an international response to potential greenhouse warming. It offers a realistic view of gaps in the scientific understanding of greenhouse warming and how much effort and expense might be required to produce definitive answers. The book presents methods for assessing options to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, offset emissions, and assist humans and unmanaged systems of plants and animals to adjust to the consequences of global warming.

Transportation System Management, Transportation Demand Management, and High-occupancy Vehicle Systems

Transportation System Management, Transportation Demand Management, and High-occupancy Vehicle Systems
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 77
Release: 1999
Genre:
ISBN:
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Transportation Research Record 1682 contains the following papers: Analysis of transportation management strategies for 2020 regional transportation plan (Zavattero, DA, Ward, JA and Rice, DF); Capacitated demand changes as a project evaluation measure (Gur, YJ); Plan-HOV : case-based reasoning planning tool of high-occupancy vehicle lane analysis in a geographic information system environment (Khattak, AJ and Renski, H); Video enforcement of high-occupancy vehicle lanes : field test results for I-30 in Dallas (Turner, S); High-occupancy vehicle monitoring and evaluation framework (Bracewell, D, Sayed, T and Shalaby, A); Can high-occupancy/toll lanes encourage carpooling? Case study of carpooling behavior on the 91 express lanes (Parkany, E); MUSIC project : urban traffic control for traffic demand management (Clegg, RG and Clune, AJ); Predicting change in average vehicle ridership on the basis of employer trip reduction plans (Winters, PL, Cleland, FA, Pietrzyk, MC, Burris, MW and Perez, R); Evaluating effects of transportation demand management strategies on trip generation by using poisson and negative binomial regression (Wallace, B, Mannering, F and Rutherford, GS).

Guide for High-occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Facilities

Guide for High-occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Facilities
Author: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Publisher: American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781560512950
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Preferential Lane Treatments for High-occupancy Vehicles

Preferential Lane Treatments for High-occupancy Vehicles
Author: Charles A. Fuhs
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1993
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780309053129
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This synthesis will be of interest to transportation planners, highway engineers, environmental personnel, highway design engineers, transit planners, highway administrators, and others concerned with the planning, design, and operational features of preferential high- occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on highways. Information is provided on the current and proposed state of the practice in North America. This synthesis describes the state of the art with respect to preferential treatment for HOVs on highways. This report of the Transportation Research Board provides information on long-distance facilities, such as barrier-separated, concurrent-flow (separated and nonseparated), and contraflow facilities, as well as on short-distance facilities, such as queue by-pass lanes. Planning, design, and operational features of each treatment are described. The issues and operating results are described, and specific case studies are included.

National Transportation Strategic Planning Study

National Transportation Strategic Planning Study
Author: United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1990
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:
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Provided is an overview of the Nation's transportation system which identifies future investments required to maintain and develop its infrastructure. The contents of this study were used in support of the National Transportation Policy Statement, issued by the Department of Transportation during March 1990. It is organized around a framework in which transportation is viewed as an integral part of our socioeconomic system. The future development of transportation will be influenced by the same factors affecting the rest of the system, namely, demographic changes, the future course of the economy, the energy supply, and preservation of the environment.

Transport Matters

Transport Matters
Author: Angela Hull
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134052057
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Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and perceptions of mobility and accessibility in city-regions. Looking at evidence from Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, it considers the meaning of the key concepts of sustainable accessibility, the spatial planning model, and integrated territorial policies.