Telecommunications, transportation, and location / Kenneth Button and Roger Stough with Michelle Bragg and Samantha Taylor.
By: Button, Kenneth
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Contributor(s): Stough, Roger.
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BookSeries: Transport economics, management, and policy.Publisher: Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006Description: vii, 171 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9781840648461; 1840648465.Subject(s): Telecommunication policy -- United States | Transportation and state -- United States | Transportation -- Social aspects -- United States | Telecommunication -- Social aspects -- United StatesDDC classification: 388.0973 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 388.0973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00152756 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book looks at the economics of the evolving interface between the movement of people, goods and information (telecommunications). It illustrates the increasing importance of information flows in relation to how people move about, the ways that goods are transported and on land-use patterns. The authors show how the linkages involved are not static but vary as technology develops, as social priorities shift, and as policymakers adjust institutional structures. The situation is evolving but, nevertheless, from a public policy and a narrower commercial, business perspective, it is important to gain broad insights into what is occurring and the ways that telecommunications, transportation, and location interact. This is the focus of the book.
Telecommunications, Transportation and Location contains both sytheses and interpretations of what others have found in regard to these interactions as well as new work that extends earlier findings. The material is presented in a rigorous yet accessible manner to open it to a wide audience of practitioners concerned with policy-making within various levels of government and within private business.
Researchers and academics teaching courses including transportation planning, communications, regional science, urban and regional planning, urban and regional economics and transport economics will find much to engage them within this book. It will also be very useful to logistics professionals, and policymakers and practitioners involved in transportation planning.
This book initially grew out of part of the work of the U.S. Center of Excellence for the Implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems within the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
Introduction -- Social change and mobility -- Some basic economic considerations -- Telecommunications and travel behavior -- Videoconferencing and work travel -- The business of E-commerce -- Telecommunications and intelligent transportation systems -- Telecommunications and the 'New Geography'.