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More About This Title Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities
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-Marianne Cusato, home designer and author of Get Your House Right: 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 social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities? economic development, social equity and ecological sustainability goals. Starting with detailed advice for improving each mode of transportation, the book offers guidance on balancing the needs of each mode against each other, whether on a downtown street, or a small town neighborhood, or a regional network.
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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.
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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
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"Sustainable Transportation Planning is an outstanding, easy to navigate source for planners of all kinds, not just transportation specialists... is an ideal book for America's many citizen-planners." (Better! Cities & Towns, April-May 2012)
". . .Tumlin argues that on the whole, transportation planning has remained overly focused on engineering. If planners took a broader approach to how urban regions work, he contends, they could serve those places more economically and also enhance liveability." (Better! Cities & Towns, March 2012)
"Tumlin's book starts with a provocative chapter on recent research into brain chemistry, noting how excessive driving makes us anti-social and stupid. Conversely, more walking and biking contribute to making us happier, sexier, and smarter." (Ecohome, March 2012)
"Transportation planning and urban planning, mobility and accessibility don't have to be mutually exclusive anymore, and Tumlin's book is a good place to learn about sustainable transportation planning." (wrdforwrd.com, January 2012)
