Transport Beyond Oil

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction Moving from Disaster to Opportunity

   1. Introduction Moving from Disaster to Opportunity

      • John L. Renne, Billy Fields

      Pages 1-8

3. Petroleum Consumption Impacts and Trends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Role of Transportation in Climate Disruption1

      • Deborah Gordon, David Burwell

      Pages 11-30

   3. Oil Vulnerability in the American City

      • Neil Sipe, Jago Dodson

      Pages 31-50

   4. Full Cost Analysis of Petroleum Consumption1

      • Todd Litman

      Pages 51-69

   5. How Does Induced Travel Affect Sustainable Transportation Policy?

      • Robert B. Noland, Christopher S. Hanson

      Pages 70-85

   6. Bending the Curve

      • Deron Lovaas, Joanne R. Potter

      Pages 86-104

4. Transportation and Oil Dependence: A Modal Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Public Transportation as a Solution to Oil Dependence

      • Bradley W. Lane

      Pages 107-125

   3. Taking the Car out of Carbon

      • Projjal K. Dutta

      Pages 126-140

   4. High-Speed Rail and Reducing Oil Dependence

      • Petra Todorovich, Edward Burgess

      Pages 141-160

   5. The Challenges and Benefits of Using Biodiesel in Freight Railways

      • Simon McDonnell, Jie Jane Lin

      Pages 161-177

   6. Healthy, Oil-Free Transportation

      • Kevin Mills

      Pages 178-187

   7. Building an Optimized Freight Transportation System

      • Alan S. Drake

      Pages 188-200

5. Moving Forward

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Imagining a Future Without Oil for Car-Dependent Cities and Regions

      • Peter Newman

      Pages 203-225

   3. The Pent-Up Demand for Transit-Oriented Development and Its Role in Reducing Oil Dependence

      • John L. Renne

      Pages 226-243

   4. Deteriorating or Improving?

      • Jeffrey Kenworthy

      Pages 244-264

   5. Policy Implications of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program

      • Billy Fields, Tony Hull

      Pages 265-290

Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year goes to transportation. In Transport Beyond Oil, leading experts show how to slash that statistic and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

The authors demonstrate that smarter development and land-use decisions, paired with better transportation systems, can dramatically lower energy consumption. John Renne calculates how oil can be saved through a future with more transit-oriented development. Petra Todorovitch examines the promise of high-speed rail. Peter Newman envisions 100% oil-free cities through the development of electric-transit, renewable natural gas, and other sustainable energy sources. Additional topics include funding transit, freight transport, and nonmotorized transportation systems. Each chapter provides policy prescriptions and their measurable results.

Transport Beyond Oil delivers practical solutions, based on quantitative data. This fact-based approach offers a new vision of travel that is both transformational and achievable.

• Economics
• Infrastructure
• Mass transit
• Oil
• Transportation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Transportation Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

  John L. Renne

• College of Liberal Arts Department of Political Science UAC 332, Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, USA

  Billy Fields

Dr. Renne has extensive experience in the intersection of transportation and land use policy. He served as a principal investigator on transit-oriented development (TOD) projects for the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the Transportation Research Board, and the State of Western Australia’s Department for Planning and Infrastructure. He was co-editor of Transit-Oriented Development: Making It Happen (2009). He is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Transportation Studies and is Director of the University of New Orleans Transportation Studies program.  Dr. Renne serves as the Chair of Research for the American Planning Association’s Transportation Planning Division and the Secretary of the Transportation Research Board’s Transportation and Land Development Committee.  He is also the Managing Director of The TOD Group, LLC, a private development firm building a TOD in Denver, Colorado.Dr. Fields is an expert in active transportation policies serving on the Transportation Research Board’s Bicycle Committee and previously serving as the Director of Research for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Washington. He was the Associate Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency and the Director of the Center for Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans.  Dr. Fields serves as PI on local and national studies of active transportation. He is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. His research focuses on understanding the key elements of resilient communities. He has examined resiliency from transportation, urban planning, and hazard mitigation perspectives through positions as the Director of Research at Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Washington, DC and most recently as the Director of the Center of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans. Recent publications from Dr. Fields have appeared in the Journal of Public Health Policy, the Journal of Urban Design, and Cityscape. Dr. Fields holds a B.A. from Trinity University and MPA and PhD from the University of New Orleans.

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