Community-Owned Transport

Community-Owned Transport
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781317163268
ISBN-13 : 1317163265
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Community-Owned Transport by : Leigh Glover

Download or read book Community-Owned Transport written by Leigh Glover and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport. Economic, technological, city and transport planning and human behaviour solutions are often hampered by ineffective implementation. So attention is now turning to institutional, governmental and political barriers. Approaches to these implementation problems assume that transport ownership can only be public (owned by state entities) or private (corporate or personal). Another option – largely unexplored to date – is communal ownership of transport. Community-Owned Transport proposes and develops the notion that communal ownership has a historical basis and provides unique opportunities for providing personal mobility. It looks at the historical roots of modern urban transport’s failings as those of technological change and the associated governing of transport systems, particularly the role of public sector institutions. Community ownership is explored through the new ‘sharing economy’ developments – car sharing, ridesharing and bicycle share schemes – and older social innovations in ecovillages and communal living. Models and practices of community ownership of transport are provided and this study also discusses how community ownership might contribute to sustainable transport. Drawing widely on different disciplines and fields of scholarship, this book explores the conceptual and practical aspects of communal ownership of transport. It will be a valuable resource for those seeking innovative approaches to addressing the pressing problems of transport, including graduate and postgraduate students, as well as policymakers, practitioners and community groups.

Community Owned Businesses

Community Owned Businesses
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781000391886
ISBN-13 : 1000391884
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Community Owned Businesses by : Norman Walzer

Download or read book Community Owned Businesses written by Norman Walzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts. Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse findings in ways which can be applied to new development initiatives, including rural grocery store retention in Kansas, socially responsible community cooperatives in Italy, preserving pubs and shops in England and Wales, serving residents with special needs in Canada, and financing basic goods and services for aging populations in Taiwan, plus other examples. The chapters explore practices and approaches used in various locations to address concerns about loss of access to essential services, making clear that this approach to financing is useful in different scenarios. The chapters provide key insights suggesting that these approaches will be even more prevalent in the future and will be of interest to students, scholars, and community-development practitioners around the world.

Social Change and Sustainable Transport

Social Change and Sustainable Transport
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : 0253340675
ISBN-13 : 9780253340672
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Social Change and Sustainable Transport by : William Richard Black

Download or read book Social Change and Sustainable Transport written by William Richard Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector. The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.

Start Your Own Transportation Service

Start Your Own Transportation Service
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Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9781599185859
ISBN-13 : 1599185857
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Start Your Own Transportation Service by : The Staff of Entrepreneur Media

Download or read book Start Your Own Transportation Service written by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Start Your Own Transportation Service shows readers how to ride the wave of popular transportation startups ranging from rideshare and executive car service to medical transport and special event services"--

Community Carsharing and the Social–Ecological Mobility Transition

Community Carsharing and the Social–Ecological Mobility Transition
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781000614213
ISBN-13 : 1000614212
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Community Carsharing and the Social–Ecological Mobility Transition by : Luca Nitschke

Download or read book Community Carsharing and the Social–Ecological Mobility Transition written by Luca Nitschke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of automobility are reconfigured through practices of community carsharing, thereby challenging capitalist mobilities in the realm of everyday life. Through a detailed empirical study of practices of community carsharing and its practitioners in the rural regions around Munich, Germany, this book reveals how the practice contributes to the emergence of alternative automobile practices, meanings, identities and subjectivities. It also explores the embedding of automobility into its ecological context, the connection of function and community in practices of community carsharing and the changing of ownership relations through a process of commoning mobility. This reconfiguration of everyday practices of automobility takes place through processes of everyday resistance, re-embedding and commoning, and ultimately results in the emergence of an alternative mobility culture, thereby facilitating the dissemination of an alternative common sense of community carsharing. This book on community carsharing provides a valuable insight into carsharing in rural settings and exemplifies how carsharing specifically, and sharing mobilities in general, can contribute to a social–ecological mobility transition. The work will be of particular interest to scholars and practitioners working in mobility studies and mobilities.

Running on Empty

Running on Empty
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781861345707
ISBN-13 : 1861345704
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Running on Empty by : Karen Lucas

Download or read book Running on Empty written by Karen Lucas and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2004-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to employment and social inclusion both in Britain and the United States. This work looks at the delivery of transport from a social policy perspective to assist in a better understanding of this issue.

Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway

Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 111
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ISBN-10 : 9781464807572
ISBN-13 : 1464807574
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway by : Arturo Ardila-Gomez

Download or read book Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway written by Arturo Ardila-Gomez and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban transport systems are essential for economic development and improving citizens' quality of life. To establish high-quality and affordable transport systems, cities must ensure their financial sustainability to fund new investments in infrastructure while also funding maintenance and operation of existing facilities and services. However, many cities in developing countries are stuck in an "underfunding trap" for urban transport, in which large up-front investments are needed for new transport infrastructure that will improve the still small-scale, and perhaps, poor-quality systems, but revenue is insufficient to cover maintenance and operation expenses, let alone new investment projects. The urban transport financing gap in these cities is further widened by the implicit subsidies for the use of private cars, which represent a minority of trips but contribute huge costs in terms of congestion, sprawl, accidents, and pollution. Using an analytical framework based on the concept of "Who Benefits Pays," 24 types of financing instruments are assessed in terms of their social, economic and environmental impacts and their ability to fund urban transport capital investments, operational expenses, and maintenance. Urban transport financing needs to be based on an appropriate mix of complementary financing instruments. In particular for capital investments, a combination of grants †“from multiple levels of government†“ and loans together with investments through public private partnerships could finance large projects that benefit society. Moreover, the property tax emerges as a key financing instrument for capital, operation, and maintenance expenses. By choosing the most appropriate mix of financing instruments and focusing on wise investments, cities can design comprehensive financing for all types of urban transport projects, using multi-level innovative revenue sources that promote efficient pricing schemes, increase overall revenue, strengthen sustainable transport, and cover capital investments, operation, and maintenance for all parts of a public transport system, "from the sidewalk to the subway."