Urban Access for the 21st Century

Elliott D. Sclar, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He is also Professor of Urban Planning in Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, an economist and an urban planner. Måns Lönnroth, member of the VREF, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Christian Wolmar, author and journalist based in London, specializing in transport. He contributes regularly to national newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian as well as to specialist magazines.

• 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Financing Urban Access 2. Towards a Political-Economics of Finance for Urban Access 3. Social Inequalities in Urban Access: Better Ways of Assessing Transport Improvements 4. Access as a Social Good and as an Economic Good: Is There a Need for a Paradigm Shift? 5. Opportunities for Transport Financing through New Technologies: State of the Art and Research Needs 6. Assessing the Diversity of Schemes for Financing Urban Access and Mobility 7. Public Transport - The Challenge of Formal and Informal Systems 8. Reflections on the Usefulness of Accessibility as a Lens 9. Accessibility and Transportation Funding 10. Technology and Information Technology: Living with and Paying for Sustainable Access