ABSTRACT

Transport in the twenty-first century represents a significant challenge at the global and the local scale. Aided by over sixty clear illustrations, Peter Headicar disentangles this complex, modern issue in five parts, offering critical insights into:

  • the nature of transport
  • the evolution of policy and planning
  • policy instruments
  • planning procedures
  • the contemporary agenda.

Distinctive features include the links forged throughout between transport and spatial planning, which are often neglected.

Designed as an essential text for transport planning students and as a source of reference for planning practitioners, it also furthers understanding of related fields such as urban and regional planning, geography, environmental studies and public policy. Based in the postgraduate course the author developed at Oxford Brookes University, this indispensable text draws on a lifetime of professional experience in the field.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |4 pages

Part I The nature of transport

chapter 1|17 pages

Transport and economic development

chapter 2|19 pages

Population, land use and travel

chapter 3|20 pages

Traffic, its impacts and public attitudes

part |2 pages

Part II The evolution of transport policy and planning

part |2 pages

Part III Ends and means

part |2 pages

Part IV Strategies, plans and planning procedures

chapter 17|16 pages

National planning

chapter 18|18 pages

Regional strategies

chapter 20|18 pages

Local transport plans

chapter 21|19 pages

Project appraisal

chapter 22|18 pages

The approval of plans and projects

part |2 pages

Part V The contemporary policy agenda

chapter 23|21 pages

The immediate agenda

chapter 24|25 pages

Future scenarios and strategic choices

chapter 25|16 pages

Postscript: Thinking afresh