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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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. …”

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Table of Contents

I Introduction 1 Elemental Accessibility 1.1  Isochrone 1.2  Rings of Opportunity 1.3  Metropolitan Average Accessibility II The People 2 Modeling People 2.1  Stages, Trips, Journeys, and Tours 2.2  The Daily Schedule 2.3  Coordination 2.4  Diurnal Curve 2.5  Travel Time 2.6  Travel Time Distribution 2.7  Social Interactions 2.8  Activity Space 2.9  Space-time Prism 2.10  Choice 2.11  Principle of Least Effort 2.12  Capability 2.13  Observation Paradox 2.14  Capacity is Relative 2.15  Time Perception 2.16  Time, Space, & Happiness 2.17  Risk Compensation III The Places 3 The Transect 3.1  Residential Density 3.2  Urban Population Densities 3.3  Pedestrian City 3.4  Neighborhood Unit 3.5  Bicycle City 3.6  Bicycle Networks 3.7  Transit City 3.8  Walkshed 3.9  Automobile City 4 Markets and Networks 4.1  Serendipity and Interaction 4.2  The Value of Interaction 4.3  Firm-Firm Interactions 4.4  Labor Markets and Labor Networks 4.5  Wasteful Commute 4.6  Job/Worker Balance 4.7  Spatial Mismatch IV The Plexus 5 Queueing 5.1  Deterministic Queues 5.2  Stochastic Queues 5.3  Platooning 5.4  Incidents 5.5  Just-in-time 6 Traffic 6.1  Flow 6.2  Flow Maps 6.3  Flux 6.4  Traffic Density 6.5  Level of Service 6.6  Speed 6.7  Shockwaves 6.8  Ramp Metering 6.9  Highway Capacity 6.10  High-Occupancy 6.11  Snow Business 6.12  Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram 6.13  Metropolitan Fundamental Diagram 7 Streets and Highways 7.1  Highways 7.2  Boulevards 7.3  Street Furniture 7.4  Signs, Signals, and Markings 7.5  Junctions 7.6  Conflicts 7.7  Conflict Points 7.8  Roundabouts 7.9  Complete Streets 7.10  Dedicated Spaces 7.11  Shared Space 7.12  Spontaneous Priority 7.13  Directionality 7.14  Lanes 7.15  Vertical Separations 7.16  Parking Capacity

8 Modalities 8.1  Mode Shares 8.2  First and Last Mile 8.3  Park-and-Ride 8.4  Line-haul 8.5  Timetables 8.6  Bus Bunching 8.7  Fares 8.8  Transit Capacity 8.9  Modal Magnitudes 9 Routing 9.1  Conservation 9.2  Equilibrium 9.3  Reliability 9.4  Price of Anarchy 9.5  The Braess Paradox 9.6  Rationing 9.7  Pricing 10 Network Topology 10.1  Graph 10.2  Hierarchy 10.3  Degree 10.4  Betweenness 10.5  Clustering 10.6  Meshedness 10.7  Treeness 10.8  Resilience 10.9  Circuity 11 Geometries 11.1  Grid 11.2  BlockSizes 11.3  Hex 11.4  Ring-Radial V The Production 12 Supply and Demand 12.1  Induced Demand 12.2  Induced Supply & Value Capture 12.3  Cost Perception 12.4  Externalities 12.5  Lifecycle Costing 12.6  Affordability 13 Synergies 13.1  Economies of Scale 13.2  Containerization 13.3  Economies of Scope 13.4  Network Economies 13.5  Intertechnology Effects 13.6  Economies of Agglomeration 13.7  Economies of Amenity VI The Progress 14 Lifecycle Dynamics 14.1  Technology Substitutes for Proximity 14.2  Conurbation 14.3  Megaregions 14.4  Path Dependence 14.5  Urban Scaffolding 14.6  Modularity 14.7  Network Origami 14.8  Volatility Begets Stability 15 Our Autonomous Future 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