
Sustainable Mass Transit
Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation
Description
Key Features
- Contains case studies from the United States, Europe, South America, Africa and Asia
- Uses applied research written by transportation practitioners and scholars
- Explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation and expansion of a mass transportation system
- Shows how teams from different fields, entities, agencies and cities can work together to solve complex sustainability challenges
Readership
Designers, engineers, planners, architects, and environmental scientists in Transportation, Urban Planning, and Sustainability, and also for graduate students in Transportation and Urban Planning, and Sustainability Management. Governmental employees in agencies involved in transportation, including state DOTs, municipal governments, local transit agencies, airports, state and private port facilities, the Federal Transit Agency or the Federal Highway Administration
Table of Contents
1. Sustainable Mass Transit
2. Infrastructure, Facilities and Vehicles
3. Energy
4. Environmental Impacts
5. Sustainable Elements - Trains
6. Sustainable Elements - Buses
7. The Future
8. Construction - Environmental Mitigation
9. Environmental Management Systems
10. Final Concluding Remarks
Product details
- No. of pages: 230
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: May 10, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128113004
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128112991
About the Author
Thomas Abdallah
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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Betzy N. Wed Jan 24 2018
Excellent book on environmental sustainability
Sustainable Mass Transit is an excellent book on environmental sustainability, through the lens of planning, designing, building and maintaining mass transit’s infrastructure, facilities and vehicles. The understanding of why mass transit is a city’s best hope to reverse the impact of global warming and reduce pollution is the foundation of the narrative. Environmental impacts and mitigation strategies from the operations of public trains and buses is at the very heart of the book, which discusses in detail green design, renewable energy, construction impacts, and environmental management. The book also includes numerous case studies from the US and around the world, showcasing sustainable initiatives in the mass transit industry.