Urban Transport Development A Complex Issue - Jönson, Gunella; Tengström, Emin.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005)
Some Basic Perspectives -- Towards a More Holistic Approach to Urban Transport Studies -- How to Describe Large Technical Systems and Their Changes over Time? -- The Meaning of the Words 'Complex' and 'Complexity' -- Urban Transport Systems Today: a Variety of Complexity -- Responding to the Complex Transport Needs of Dispersed Wealthy Cities: a Comparison of Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada -- Urban Public Transport in an International Perspective -- An Analysis of the Situation in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania from an Institutional Coordination Perspective -- Towards Sustainable Urban Transport in China: The Role of Bus Rapid Transit Systems -- The Complex Relationships between Motorized Mobility, Societal Development and Sustainability -- Coping with Complexity: Some Analytical Perspectives -- Progress in Coping with Complex Urban Transport Problems in the United States -- Self-organizing Systems and Innovations in Asian Cities -- Urban Transport in Africa: Opportunities for Maximising Intervention in Complex Systems -- Examples of Positive Changes of Complex Urban Transport Problems in Europe -- The Role of Actors in Coping with Urban Transport Development -- The "Non-Technical" Issues that Create Barriers to Successful Implementation of Urban Transport Projects in Developing Countries -- Portland and Smart Growth: What you can Learn from the Portland Experience -- Complex Urban Transport in Europe: Tackling Problems, Finding Solutions -- Economic Impact of Light Rail Investments: Summary of the Results for 15 Urban Areas in France, Germany, UK and North America -- Challenges in Dealing with the Complexity of Urban Transport -- How do Political Actors Deal with the Complexity of Urban Transport Development? -- Academic Studies of Complex Engineered Systems: How this New Knowledge can be Used to Improve Education and Practice for Mobility -- Safety and Sustainable Urban Transport -- How does VREF Proceed?.
Keywords: Regional planning; Urban planning; Automotive engineering; Regional economics; Spatial economics; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Automotive Engineering; Regional/Spatial Science