The Transport System and Transport Policy

This is a thoughtfully-organized, comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the transportation system, its effects on society, and policies designed to guide it. Chapter authors are top scholars in their respective domains, and the result is richly informative. I have already enthusiastically recommended this book to colleagues and students alike. -- Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Georgia Institute of Technology, US 'This may well be the transport policy textbook staff and students on transport degree courses have been waiting for. With contributions from world experts in their fields, it covers the full range of transport policy topics, is bang up to date, and offers in-depth explanation and analysis, all in an accessible writing style. Highly recommended.' -- Tom Rye, Molde University College, Norway This book, fully revised from the first edition, is the most authoritative text on transport policy and transport economics currently available. The authors have managed to build into the book the essential elements of the field that any student studying transportation, or indeed consultants and government agencies, will find enlightening, keeping them up to date. -- David A. Hensher, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia

Edited by Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Jan Anne Annema, Associate Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography and the Environment and Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK and Baiba Pudne, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Contents: Preface xxii Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister, and Baiba Pudne 1 Introduction to The Transport System and Transport Policy 1 Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister and Baiba Pudne 2 The transport system and its effects on accessibility, the environment, safety, health and well-being: an introduction 3 Bert van Wee PART I THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM 3 Individual needs, opportunities and travel behaviour: a multidisciplinary perspective based on psychology, economics and geography 17 Martin Dijst, Piet Rietveld, Linda Steg, Janet Veldstra and Erik Verhoef 4 Freight transport: indicators, determinants and drivers of change 50 Lrnt Tavasszy and Kees Ruijgrok 5 Land use and transport 76 Bert van Wee 6 Transport resistance factors: time, money and effort 96 Jan Anne Annema 7 Traffic flow theory and modelling 119 Victor L. Knoop and Serge Hoogendoorn 8 Transport technology 154 Jan Anne Annema PART II IMPACTS OF THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM 9 Accessibility: perspectives, measures and applications 179 Karst Geurs and Bert van Wee 10 Transport and the environment 201 Natalia Barbour 11 Traffic safety 229 Fred Wegman and Paul Schepers 12 Travel behaviour and health 259 Bert van Wee and Dick Ettema PART III TRANSPORT POLICY AND RESEARCH 13 Transport policy 275 Jan Anne Annema 14 Transport futures research 294 Vincent Marchau, Warren Walker and Jan Anne Annema 15 Appraisal methods for transport policy 313 Niek Mouter and Piet Rietveld 16 Transportation models and their applications 333 Gonalo Homem de Almeida Correia and Bert van Wee Index