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Urban Access for the 21st Century Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure
This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this. Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public finance systems that support urban mobility. The aim is to diminish their embedded biases towards automobile-based travel.
Through a series of chapters from international contributors, the book brings together expertise from different fields. It shows how small changes can incentivize large positive developments in urban transport and create truly accessible cities.
1. Introduction: The Challenge of Financing Urban Access (Elliott Sclar and Måns Lönnroth) 2. Towards a Political-Economics of Finance for Urban Access (Elliott Sclar) 3. Social Inequalities in Urban Access: Better Ways of Assessing Transport Improvements (Sylvie Fol and Caroline Gallez) 4. Access as a Social Good and as an Economic Good: Is There a Need for a Paradigm Shift? (Rosário Macário) 5. Opportunities for Transport Financing Through New Technologies: State of the Art and Research Needs (Jonas Eliasson) 6. Assessing the Diversity of Schemes for Financing Urban Access and Mobility (José M. Viegas) 7. Public Transport: The Challenge of Formal and Informal Systems (Eduardo A. Vasconcellos) 8. Reflections on the Usefulness of Accessibility as a Lens (Frederick Salvucci) 9. Accessibility and Transportation Funding (Frederick Salvucci) 10. Technology and Information Technology: Living with and Paying for Sustainable Access (Robert E Paaswel)
Biography
Elliott D. Sclar, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He is also Professor of Urban Planning in Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, an economist and an urban planner.
Måns Lönnroth, member of the VREF, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Christian Wolmar, author and journalist based in London, specializing in transport. He contributes regularly to national newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian as well as to specialist magazines.
