The Transport System and Transport Policy

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 Pudāne, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Contents:

Preface xxii
Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister, and Baiba Pudāne
1 Introduction to The Transport System and Transport Policy 1
Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister and Baiba Pudāne
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
Lóránt 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
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia and Bert van Wee

Index