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Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility. Planning, Financing and Management

  • Book

  • September 2018
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 4482925

Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility: Planning, Finance and Implementation explains the types of new urban mobility planning paradigms that are emerging throughout the world, along with their potential to transform the transportation landscape. As half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities, thus causing severe road congestion, increased air pollution, energy insecurity and sustainability problems in cities and the planet itself, this book presents new paradigms that are emerging to address these problems, along with other topics of note, including economic efficiency, health, the well-being of cities and their residents, urban mobility transformations, and the role of social media.

In addition, the book looks at Integrated Corridor Management and how it improves the people-moving performance of multi-modal transport systems in high demand urban corridors and how countries balance the mobility benefits of motorcycles with the environmental and safety threats they pose.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Governance 3. Planning Principles 4. The Changing Role of Public Transport 5. Transformational Potential of Information Technology 6. Changing Approaches to Transport Finance 7. Managing Roadways for Moving People and Goods 8. Opportunities and Challenges of Motorized Two-Wheelers 9. Beyond Congestion 10. Social Media as an Instrument of Change 11. Transport impact of the Changing Role of Women 12. Lessons for the Future

Authors

Om Prakash Agarwal Senior Urban Transport Specialist and Urban Transport Advisor, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA. Senior Urban Transport Specialist and Urban Transport Advisor for the World Bank in Washington, DC. He chairs Transport Research Board's Committee on Transportation in Developing Countries, and holds a Master's degree in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology. Samuel Zimmerman Former Lead Transport Economist, World Bank. Ajay Kumar is the former Lead Transport Economist for the World Bank. He has more than 30 years of experience in transport and urban sector public policy, strategic planning, and finance. During his time at the World Bank, he worked in more than 40 countries across Central Asia, South and East Asia, and Africa. He holds a PhD in Urban Economics and Planning from UCLA. Ajay Kumar Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently working as Research Associate in Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. In his eight years of research, he published more than thirty five research articles and book chapters in the international and national journals of repute. He has research specialization is primarily in plant-microbe interactions, endophytes related with the medicinal plants, microbial inoculants, and cyanobacteria-pesticide interaction. In addition, he is a member of the advisory committee of International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences and Journal of Plant Science and Agriculture Research.