• ISBN13: 9780128215166
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publisher Imprint: Elsevier
• Publication Date: April 7, 2020
• Pages: 408
• Original Price: USD 125.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 545 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Environmental / Pollution Control and General

Eco-cities and Green Transport presents a systematic, uniform, and structured way to examine different cities at different scales in order to suggest unique solutions appropriate to each scale. The book examines city infrastructure and the built environment, transport system supply and demand, and transport behavior to offer innovative policy solutions for various transport modes. With end of chapter experiences and lessons summarized, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the advantages and disadvantages for transforming cities and their transport systems to meet residents current and future needs.

The increasingly rapid growth of global urbanization requires cities to be built in an ecologically sustainable, energy efficient, and livable way. A critical component in achieving these goals is an urban transportation system that uses natural resources as reasonably as possible. The outcome of a ten-year data collection research effort by the author and his team, the book sheds new insights into these challenges using a thorough investigation of traffic systems in 20 cities from 13 countries throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Lu, Huapu: - Professor Lu, based at Institute of Transportation Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, is a consultant to many traffic authorities in Asia: including China and Singapore. He is director of the Tsinghua University branch of the National Road Traffic Management Technology Research Centre . His research areas include transportation planning and management, Intelligent Transportation Systems, sustainable transportation systems, and traffic safety. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.