Other Readings and Focused Texts
"Numerous technical and policy books address sustainability issues in transportation and other fields. As transportation is an interdisciplinary field of study, portions of these books, or the ideas presented in them, may be valuable for lecture material, course work, and/or discussion topics. For example, the Booz Allen Hamilton (2014) and Zeitsman, et al. (2011) reports, whose target audience is state departments of transportation, define sustainability principles and discuss how to instill these principles in society and transportation projects. McDonough and Braungart (2010) focus more on lifecycle analysis and how Western development is affecting the world at large, though they pay little attention to freight distribution mechanisms. With respect to environmental issues, Field and Field (2012), Brown (2011), van Bueren et al. (2012), and Wheeler (2008) address environmental economics and the effects that urban planning and design can have on the environment. Munier (2007) summarizes sustainability issues in various disciplines and attempts to develop sustainability metrics and indicators. These texts are often focused in specific areas but provide useful readings that could be adapted into transportation sustainability courses."
Reference: "Sustainable Transportation Curricula" (2015), p38.
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Strategic issues facing transportation. Volume 4, Sustainability as an organizing principle for transportation agencies
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Call Number: Read Free OnlineISBN: 9780309283892Publication Date: 2014Topics include: sustainability; key gaps between present day agency functions and their relevance in a future sustainable society setting; how transportation agencies can better support a sustainable society; recommendations on near-term actions; tools and methods needed to support future societal sustainability planning.
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Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns
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Call Number: HT241 .F75 2014ISBN: 9780415539289Publication Date: 2014Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Common approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. Rather than dismissing small and mid-sized towns as unattractive suburban sprawl, Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns offers ideas and methods on how small isolated and edge towns can be designed and retooled into sustainable, affordable and adaptable communities. Coverage includes: the evolution of small towns mobility and connectivity neighborhood and sustainable dwelling design town centers and urban renewal economic sustainability and wealth generation, and more. With numerous case studies from North America and Europe. -
Systems Engineering
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781604270556Publication Date: 2012This extensively revised comprehensive textbook, covering a wide range of topics, is suitable for courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, each with a different emphasis. There is more than enough material to cover two semesters of an undergraduate course, as well as a one semester graduate course. The pedagogy provides enough flexibility for an instructor to teach the topics in systems engineering she or he would like. Systems Engineering with Economics, Probability and Statistics, Second Edition is sufficiently broad-based for undergraduate and graduate programs in various branches of engineering and management. -
Transportation Planning for Sustainability GuidebookCall Number: Read Free OnlinePublication Date: 2011Prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, US Department of Transportation. Topics include: critical issues in planning for sustainable transportation systems; a review of U.S. and international practices; potential data sources and tools for sustainability planning and analysis, a range of US and international case studies to highlight best practices.
