Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation

By Thomas Abdallah

Comprehensive overview on how to make public transporation systems worldwide less reliant on fossil fuels and more energy efficient. Explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve the environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation, and expansion of a mass transportation system. Shows how teams from different fields, entities, agencies, and cities can work together to solve complex sustainability challenges. Numerous case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Asia, including sustainable influences from Europe. Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation provides a comphrensive overview of how to incorporate sustainable business practices into public transportation systems worldwide. Everyday, millions of people in the cities commute from home to work or school. Most do so though by getting into their own car and driving to where they need to be, causing significant environmental damage to the earth's ecosystem. Cities with subways, train lines, light rail systems, and bus lines, however, contribute less environmental damage overall than cities that do not. Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transporation examines the numerous types of mass trasit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building, and retrofilling. It examines the migigation measures that reduce of eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation, and others sustainable initatives. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128112999
• ISBN13: 9780128112991
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"