Author : Diane E. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Book Synopsis Transforming Urban Transport - The Role of Political Leadership (TUT-POL) by : Diane E. Davis
Download or read book Transforming Urban Transport - The Role of Political Leadership (TUT-POL) written by Diane E. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Transforming Urban Transport (TUT) research initiative, hosted at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, is developing a collection of case studies of democratically governed cities across the world that have recently implemented significant transportation innovations. The project’s objective is to identify the conditions that motivate and enable political leaders to embrace and successfully implement significant transportation reforms. We intend to use the materials emerging from this research project for a mix of instructional and scholarly purposes, including a course that will be available on-line, a book, and journal articles. The support from UTC will enable us to expand TUT’s sample of case study cities and increase the time that researchers can invest in conducting fieldwork, so as to offer a more systematic comparative lens for producing robust findings about how, when, and why political leadership advances positive transportation outcomes. Concretely, funds from this proposal will be allocated to developing the following four new case studies: (1) Adaptive taxi and livery regulation in San Francisco, (2) publicly- supported tax-based transit investments in Los Angeles, (3) non-motorized transport improvements in New York City and (4) a constellation of transit, traffic management, and related land use policies that have brought about a remarkable mode shift from cars to transit over the past two decades in Vienna, Austria."--