Tumlin Sustainable Transportation Planning

Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-12760-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Sustainable Design

"The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zippingfrom here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmarethat is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeplyimpacting our personal well-being. Getting from A to B has neverbeen more difficult, expensive or miserable. It doesn't have to bethis way. Jeffrey Tumlin's book Sustainable TransportationPlanning offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained tips andtechniques that will allow us to quite literally take back ourroads. Essential reading for anyone who wants to drive ourtransportation system out of the gridlock."
-Marianne Cusato, home designer and author of Get Your HouseRight: Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid
?The book is full of useful ideas on nearly every page.?
? Bill DiBennedetto of Triple Pundit
As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning,architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and socialpolicy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recentdecades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this bookprovides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achievetheir cities? economic development, social equity and ecologicalsustainability goals. Starting with detailed advice for improvingeach mode of transportation, the book offers guidance on balancingthe needs of each mode against each other, whether on a downtownstreet, or a small town neighborhood, or a regional network.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tumlin, Jeffrey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Why Transportation? 2
The Big Picture: Mobility vs. Accessibility 4
Structure of This Book 5
Chapter 2 Sustainable Transportation 7
What Is Sustainability? 7
Chapter 3 Transportation and Public Health 23
The Human Body 23
Does This McMansion Make Me Look Fat? 26
Danger, Will Robinson! 27
Anger, Will Robinson! 28
Health and Equity 29
Driving and Social Health 31
Transportation and Trust 31
Conclusions 33
Chapter 4 The City of the Future 35
Yesterday's Tomorrowland 35
Imagining the Sustainable City of the
Future 37
Chapter 5 Streets 45
Conceptualizing Streets 45
Principles of Street Design 48
Chapter 6 Pedestrians 51
Introduction 51
Pedestrian Planning Principles 51
Pedestrian Planning Tools 56
Pedestrian Design Tools 60
Measuring Pedestrian Success 69
Case Study: Marin County Safe Routes to Schools 71
Chapter 7 Bicycles 73
Introduction 73
Why Invest in Cycling? 73
Increasing Cycling 74
Key Cycling Principles 76
Design So That Everyone Will Enjoy Biking 81
Measuring Bicycle Success 101
Further Information 101
Chapter 8 Transit 105
Introduction 105
Transit Modes 106
Case Study: Los Angeles Metro Rapid 114
Case Study: Portland Streetcar 116
Case Study: San Diego Trolley 117
Design for Transit 121
Measuring Success 134
Case Study: Boulder, Colorado, Community Transit Network 136
Transit Planning Resources 136
Chapter 9 Motor Vehicles 139
Introduction 139
Designing for Cars 143
Design Manuals That Build upon Context 149
Design Guidance 151
Modeling Traffi c 166
Freeways 169
Chapter 10 Parking 173
Introduction 173
Parking Is Destiny 173
Parking Economics 101 175
Parking Tools 177
Parking Management Principles 181
Top Ten Parking Management Strategies 186
Chapter 11 Carsharing 205
Introduction 205
Types of Carsharing 206
Impacts 207
Where Carsharing Is Most Successful 208
Public Policies That Support Carsharing 212
Municipal Fleets 215
Jump-Starting a Program 216
Chapter 12 Stations and Station Areas 217
Introduction 217
Multimodal Access 219
Case Study: WMATA's Orange Line 232
Station Components 234
Case Study: BART Station Replacement Parking 236
Chapter 13 Transportation Demand Management 241
What Is Traffic Congestion and Why Does It Happen? 241
Planning for Reduced Traffic 244
Traffic Reduction: A How-To Guide 249
Chapter 14 Measuring Success 263
Definitions 263
How Performance Measures Are Used 264
How Performance Measures Are Misused 264
Measuring Success for Multiple Modes 270
Using Performance Measures to Balance Modes 270
Citywide Transportation System Measurements 277
Evaluating Project Alternatives 282
Additional Resources 285
Chapter 15 For More Information 287
Useful Online Resources 287
Required Reading 288
Useful Tools 289
Endnotes 297
Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

JEFFREY TUMLIN is an owner and sustainability practice leader of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, a San Francisco-based transportation planning and engineering firm that focuses on sustainable mobility. Over the past nineteen years, he has led station-area, downtown, citywide, and campus plans, and he has delivered various lectures and classes in twenty U.S. states and five other countries. His major development projects have succeeded in reducing their traffic and CO² emissions by as much as 40% and have accommodated many millions of square feet of growth with no net increase in motor vehicle traffic. These projects have won awards from the General Services Administration, American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Urban Land Institute.