A New Deal for Transport?: The UK's struggle with the sustainable transport agendaISBN: 978-1-4051-0631-3
Paperback
284 pages
October 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Series Editors’ Preface ix
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xiv
Preface xviii
List of Abbreviations xxii
Part I Policy and Politics 1
1 Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour’s Dilemma 3
Iain Docherty
2 Devolution and Sustainable Transport 30
Austin Smyth
3 Local Transport Planning under Labour 51
Geoff Vigar and Dominic Stead
Part II Progress in Policy Implementation 73
4 Roads and Traffic Congestion Policies: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 75
William Walton
5 A Railway Renaissance? 108
Jon Shaw and John Farrington
6 Light Rail and the London Underground 135
Richard Knowles and Peter White
7 A ‘Thoroughbred’ in the Making? The Bus Industry under Labour 158
John Preston
8 Ubiquitous, Everyday Walking and Cycling: The Acid Test of a Sustainable Transport Policy 178
Rodney Tolley
9 Air Transport Policy: Reconciling Growth and Sustainability? 198
Brian Graham
Part III The Future 227
10 Towards a Genuinely Sustainable Transport Agenda for the United Kingdom 229
Phil Goodwin
Index 245