Book Title: Multimodal Transportation Planning

Authors: Peng Chen; Tia Boyd; and Kristine Williams

Book Description: Multimodal Transportation Planning introduces readers to the principles and practice of integrated land use and transportation planning. The primary focus of the textbook is on planning for the mobility needs of all transportation system users, with an emphasis on pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, and transit modes. A related focus is on reducing society’s dependence on the automobile for personal travel. Readers of the text will be able to gain knowledge that supports a variety of learning objectives. Key themes and objectives relate to conveying an understanding of the relationship between land use and transportation, the difference between traditional methods and multimodal planning best practices, and the importance of evaluating performance from an accessibility and quality of service perspective.

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OERTransport Multimodal Transportation Planning introduces readers to the principles and practice of integrated land use and transportation planning. The primary focus of the textbook is on planning for the mobility needs of all transportation system users, with an emphasis on pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, and transit modes while reducing society’s dependence on the automobile for personal travel.

Providing individuals with a choice of clean, efficient, and affordable mobility options is a key strategy for reducing the effects of climate change, improving public health and safety, and achieving more equitable and livable communities. To address these policy objectives, students are expected to have a working knowledge of multimodal transportation planning in contemporary practice. In response, graduate urban planning and engineering programs are beginning to address multimodal transportation planning and sustainable transportation in their curricula. This textbook provides Universities with a practical resource for use in teaching multimodal transportation planning and related courses in graduate-level urban planning and engineering programs. OERTransport Multimodal Transportation Planning has been described as a “Great way to present the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of transportation.”

Readers of the text will be able to gain knowledge on a variety of key themes and objectives toward an understanding of the relationship between land use and transportation, the difference between traditional methods and multimodal planning best practices, and the importance of evaluating performance from an accessibility and quality of service perspective.

This textbook is a product of the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.

Authors

Peng Chen; Tia Boyd; and Kristine Williams

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Multimodal Transportation Planning Copyright © 2024 by Peng Chen; Tia Boyd; and Kristine Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Transport planning and policy

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Title
Multimodal Transportation Planning
Authors
Peng Chen; Tia Boyd; and Kristine Williams
Editor
Taylor Dinehart
Reviewers
Beth Alden; Ann Foss; Brian Guenzel; David L. Hutchinson; Muhammad A. Khan; John Liu; David Weinreich; and James Wood
Illustrator
Ryan Wakefield
Contributors
Connor Baird and Taylor Dinehart
License

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Multimodal Transportation Planning Copyright © 2024 by Peng Chen; Tia Boyd; and Kristine Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Transport planning and policy
Institution
University of South Florida
Publisher
Mavs Open Press
Publication Date
June 20, 2024
Ebook ISBN
978-1-64816-010-3