Sustainable Mass Transit

Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-12-811299-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation examines the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building and retrofitting. It examines the mitigation measures that reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation and other sustainable initiatives.

The book explores organizational best practices, environmental regulatory constraints and life-cycle assessments, describing which sustainable elements can be added while rehabilitating or expanding a mass transportation infrastructure or ancillary facility. The book concludes with a look at forthcoming sustainable initiatives that will enhance mass transit systems.

Zielgruppe

<p>This book is suitable for designers, engineers, planners, architects, and environmental scientists in Transportation, Urban Planning, and Sustainability, and also for graduate students in Transportation and Urban Planning, and Sustainability Management. </p> <p> This book would also be valuable for governmental employees in agencies involved in transportation, including state DOTs, municipal governments, local transit agencies, airports, state and private port facilities, the Federal Transit Agency or the Federal Highway Administration</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abdallah, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sustainable Mass Transit 2. Infrastructure, Facilities and Vehicles 3. Energy 4. Environmental Impacts 5. Sustainable Elements - Trains 6. Sustainable Elements - Buses 7. The Future 8. Construction - Environmental Mitigation 9. Environmental Management Systems 10. Final Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Abdallah, Thomas
Thomas Abdallah, P.E. LEED AP, is Vice President Design Services and Chief Environmental Engineer for the New York City MTA's Construction and Development (MTA C&D) agency. Thomas holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. He is responsible to provide expert environmental engineering services for all MTA capital projects and has over 35 years of experience as an environmental engineer. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in the Sustainability Management graduate program. He has appeared on Discovery Channel, PBS, NPR and appeared in an episode of History Channel's Modern Marvels - Moving America.