ITF Roundtable Reports Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities Summary and Conclusions

ITF Roundtable Reports Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities Summary and Conclusions
Author: International Transport Forum
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 928214934X

This report examines the current conditions of walking and cycling in cities. It reviews the literature on the potential benefits of active mobility, highlighting the importance of moving away from car-centric development. It also explores how cities developed into car-centric environments, with a particular focus on moto-normative assumptions. The report offers recommendations for re-centring mobility spaces on people to improve the quality, enjoyment, utility and safety of active mobility.

ITF Roundtable Reports Reversing Car Dependency Summary and Conclusions

ITF Roundtable Reports Reversing Car Dependency Summary and Conclusions
Author: International Transport Forum
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre:
ISBN: 928212701X

Managing the growth of urban traffic is vital for improving the liveability of our cities. This report examines how governments can encourage citizens to use alternatives to private cars in order to reduce car dependency, regardless of how they are powered or who drives them. The report analyses fiscal policies and other instruments for managing urban traffic and correcting current policy biases that favour automobile travel over more sustainable and affordable transport options. It also reviews international experience in co-ordinating transport planning with land-use development and in allocating space to walking and cycling in order to make transport more efficient and streets less congested.

ITF Transport Outlook 2021

ITF Transport Outlook 2021
Author: International Transport Forum
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9282114082

The ITF Transport Outlook 2021 provides scenarios for the development of transport demand up to 2050. This edition includes a special focus on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on transport systems, and models potential long-term changes with challenges and opportunities for decarbonisation.

Managing Urban Traffic Congestion

Managing Urban Traffic Congestion
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9282101509

Offers policy-oriented, research-based recommendations for effectively managing traffic and cutting excess congestion in large urban areas.

COVID-19 and Transport in Asia and the Pacific

COVID-19 and Transport in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9292625837

The economic and social impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been dramatic, and transport has played a central role in its spread. The transport sector has also enabled essential workers to get to work during the pandemic and will support the needs of the population throughout the different stages of recovery. This guidance note presents (i) the impacts of the pandemic on social and travel behaviors in Asia and the Pacific, and how the transport sector is responding; and (ii) guiding principles and good practices in transport operations to support economic recovery.

Women's Issues in Transportation

Women's Issues in Transportation
Author: Susan Herbel
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309160766

"September 27-30, 2009. Irvine, California"--Title page.

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Belgium 2021

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Belgium 2021
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9264400346

Belgium has made progress in decoupling several environmental pressures from economic growth, in improving wastewater treatment and in expanding protected areas. Regions have achieved high levels of recovery and recycling, and have pioneered circular economy policies. However, further efforts are needed to progress towards carbon neutrality, reduce air and water pollution, reverse biodiversity loss and consolidate results of circular economy initiatives.

The Olympic Textbook of Medicine in Sport

The Olympic Textbook of Medicine in Sport
Author: Martin P. Schwellnus
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2009-01-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781444300642

This comprehensive new volume in the Encyclopaedia of SportsMedicine series, published under the auspices of the InternationalOlympic Committee, delivers an up-to-date, state of the artpresentation of the medical conditions that athletes may sufferfrom during training and competition. Presented in a clear style and format, The Olympic Textbookof Medicine in Sport, covers not only the basic approach totraining, monitoring training and the clinical implications ofexcessive training, but also deals with all the major systems inthe body, and focuses on medical conditions that athletes maysuffer from in each system. Medical conditions in athletes withdisabilities, genetics and exercise and emergency sports medicineare also uniquely examined. The Olympic Textbook of Medicine in Sport draws on theexpertise of an international collection of contributors who arerecognized as leaders in their respective fields. The systematic approach followed in the book will make itinvaluable to all medical doctors and other health personnel whoserve athletes and sports teams. Sports practitioners are providedwith a clinical approach to the prevention, diagnosis and treatmentof common and less common medical problems encountered by athletes.This volume should be kept close at hand for frequentconsultation.

Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication

Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication
Author: Igor Kabashkin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319744542

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice. The book presents the most noteworthy methods and results discussed at the International Conference on Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat), which took place in Riga, Latvia on October 18 – 21, 2017. It spans a broad spectrum of topics, from mathematical models and design methodologies, to software engineering and data security issues, as well as practical problems in technical systems, such as transportation, and telecommunications.

Safe and Sustainable Transport: A Matter of Quality Assurance

Safe and Sustainable Transport: A Matter of Quality Assurance
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: Conference
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Road safety is generally a mixture of three components, namely, the road, the vehicle and the driver, or, as also referred to by the ECMT, the infrastructure, the vehicle and human behaviour. Promotion of road safety is more and more possible only through a larger scope of interest -- environment, sustainability, and quality of life. In the future, an efficient road transport system should provide a safe and sustainable accessibility. The idea of organising a seminar came from a presentation by a Swedish representative of the "Vision Zero" programme, adopted by the Swedish Parliament in autumn 1997. The basic idea of "Vision Zero" is that no person should be killed or seriously and permanently impaired in a road traffic accident. At the invitation of the Czech authorities, the seminar was held in March 2002 in Prague. Many governmental and non governmental organisations responsible for road safety policies and work participated in the event.