Now available: Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen. 336 pages, 164 color images. Published by the Network Design Lab.
About the Book
Nothing in cities makes sense except in the light of accessibility.
Transport cannot be understood without reference to the location of activities (land use), and vice versa. To understand one requires understanding the other. However, for a variety of historical reasons, transport and land use are quite divorced in practice. Typical transport engineers only touch land use planning courses once at most, and only then if they attend graduate school. Land use planners understand transport the way everyone does, from the perspective of the traveler, not of the system, and are seldom exposed to transport aside from, at best, a lone course in graduate school. This text aims to bridge the chasm, helping engineers understand the elements of access that are associated not only with traffic, but also with human behavior and activity location, and helping planners understand the technology underlying transport engineering, the processes, equations, and logic that make up the transport half of the accessibility measure. It aims to help both communicate accessibility to the public.
Features & Details
- Size 8×10 in, 21×26 cm. 340 Pages
- Images 164 Images (most in color)
- ISBN
- Softcover: 9781389067617
- Hardcover: 9781389067402
- Publish Date Dec 31, 2017
- Language English
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- PDF (Electronic Download) (on Gumroad)… $8.88
- High Quality Color Trade Paperback (on Blurb)… $28.88
- Very High Quality Color Trade Paperback (on Amazon)… $68.88
- Very High Quality Color Hardcover (on Blurb) … $98.88
- PDF (University of Sydney Library eScholarship Repository)
Reviews
- Jarrett Walker: Elements of Access is really a tour of the whole field of transport planning, and its goal is to strike a balance between academic precision and readability. In this, it’s a great success. I’ve never taken more pleasure from reading academic writing about transport. The writing is mostly clear and easy to read, and deftly combines technical ideas with references to everyday life.
- Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone Dealing with the 5 Ps of access. Review of Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. Journal of Transport Geography 72 p. 274.
- “There is an indissoluble link between land use and transport. It might sound hair-rising to those who theorised the positive utility of travel, but basically, most of the time we spend travelling is to reach places where we can carry out activities. Since the pioneering studies of Robert Mitchell and Chester Rapkin in the ‘50s, several scholars have studied the link between land use and transport and tried to foster a constructive dialogue between these two domains. Nevertheless, they are still deeply separate, in terms of disciplines, professions and planning domains.
The book is clearly aimed at bridging this gap, and more. It fosters an informed dialogue between transport engineers and spatial planners, grounded on mutual (more than reciprocal) knowledge. Furthermore, it tries to help both to communicate accessibility and its various facets to the public. …”
- “There is an indissoluble link between land use and transport. It might sound hair-rising to those who theorised the positive utility of travel, but basically, most of the time we spend travelling is to reach places where we can carry out activities. Since the pioneering studies of Robert Mitchell and Chester Rapkin in the ‘50s, several scholars have studied the link between land use and transport and tried to foster a constructive dialogue between these two domains. Nevertheless, they are still deeply separate, in terms of disciplines, professions and planning domains.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD [Video]
I Introduction1 Elemental Accessibility [Video]
II The People2 Modeling People [Video]
III The Places3 The Transect [Video]
4 Markets and Networks [Video]
IV The Plexus5 Queueing [Video]
6 Traffic [Video]
7 Streets and Highways [Video]
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8 Modalities [Video]
9 Routing [Video]
10 Network Topology [Video]
11 Geometries [Video]
V The Production12 Supply and Demand [Video]
13 Synergies [Video]
VI The Progress14 Lifecycle Dynamics [Video]
15 Our Autonomous Future [Video]Bibliography |
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access | Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport | Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners | A Political Economy of Access | The 30-Minute City | Transport Access Manual | Applications of Access
David Levinson, Transportist 
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