Assessing national urban transportation policy alternatives

Urban Road Transportation Externalities: Costs and Choice of Policy Instruments

Urban transportation externalities are a key development challenge. Based on the existing literature, the authors illustrate the magnitudes of various external costs, review response policies, and measure and discuss their selection, particularly focusing on the context of developing countries. They find that regulatory policy instruments aimed at reducing local air pollution have been introduc...

An Integrated Approach to Transportation Policy in BC ASSESSING GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS OPPORTUNITIES IN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION

Transportation services are central to movement of goods and people in modern economies. Their provision embodies many tradeoffs between: economic benefits, health effects, social and environmental impacts. Policies aimed at achieving deep greenhouse gas emission reductions from the transportation sector will invariably impact the balance of these benefits and dis-benefits of transportation. Th...

Future Biofuels Policy Alternatives

Urban Transportation Management Challenges

IN FR A STR U C TU R E The condition of the nation’s infrastructure has been the subject of several major studies in recent years. As could be expected, Canada has similar problems concerning the condition of the infrastructure. Needs studies undertaken from the late 1970s to the present suggest four major conclusions: the nation’s infrastructure has been maintained unevenly; many public facili...

Urban Public Transportation Systems

1. Classification of Transit Systems 2. Bus Transit System 3. Trolleybus System 4. Rail Transit Systems 5. Tramway/Streetcar and Light Rail Transit LRT 6. Rapid Transit or Metro 7. Automated Guided Transit Systems 8. Regional and Commuter Rail 9. Special Technology Transit Systems 10. Transit Line Scheduling 11. Transit Planning and Selection of Transit Modes 12. Present and Future Role of Urba...