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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgment | ||
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| List of Contributors | ||
| Pt. I | European Mobility Patterns | 1 |
| 1 | Introduction: Can a Billion Trips be Reduced to a Few Patterns? | 3 |
| 2 | European Mobility is Different: A Global Perspective | 13 |
| 3 | Europe: A Heterogenous 'Single Market' | 21 |
| 4 | Travel Patterns of the Europeans in Everyday Life | 33 |
| Pt. II | Dimensions of European Mobility | 51 |
| 5 | Taming the Peak: Time and Timing as Travel Moderators | 53 |
| 6 | Car: Increasing Ownership and Decreasing Use? | 75 |
| 7 | Commuting: Home Sprawl, Job Sprawl and Traffic Jams | 101 |
| 8 | Public Transport in Europe: Requiem or Revival? | 129 |
| 9 | Travelling Across Europe: Going for Pleasure and Profit | 149 |
| 10 | Transport Policy: The European Laboratory | 167 |
| Pt. III | National Perspectives | 189 |
| 11 | Austria: Something is happening between East and West | 191 |
| 12 | Belgium: Mobility at the Political Heart of Europe | 211 |
| 13 | Finland: Mobility on Top of Europe | 227 |
| 14 | France: A Centralized Country in between Regional and European Development | 241 |
| 15 | Germany: A Review at the Verge of a New Era | 257 |
| 16 | Greece: Growing Slow, Travelling Fast | 275 |
| 17 | Israel: Transport in a Small Turbulent "Island-State" | 291 |
| 18 | Italy: A (Motorway) Bridge to the South | 313 |
| 19 | The Netherlands: Ground Transport Below Sea-Level | 329 |
| 20 | Norway: Crossing Fjords and Mountains | 349 |
| 21 | Sweden: Moving towards a Safer Environment | 367 |
| 22 | Switzerland: Neutrality at the Center of Europe | 385 |
| 23 | Turkey: Coping with High Transit Demands through Entrepreneurship | 403 |
| 24 | United Kingdom: Deregulated Transport in an Over-regulated Continent | 421 |
| References | 437 | |
| Appendix A: Currency exchange rates table (31.12, 1988) | 448 | |
| Appendix B: Purchasing power parities (1989) | 449 | |
| Index | 451 |
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Brett Stewart
reviewed A Billion Trips a Day on March 13, 2013
A Billion Trips a Day
This book was mentioned on NPR and because the author explored roads in places where or near where we had been, I wanted to read it. His premise is about the power of roads to change the world- sometimes in good ways and sometimes in bad ones. In Peru he traveled with loggers who were denuding mahogany in Amazonia and brining it over the Andes to sell. In East Africa, he went with truckers. It is assumed that truckers had brought aids to towns along the routes when they visited whores. He also went into a remote part of the Himalayas in India and walked on ice an impending route to judge how it would affect the culture there. The toughest parts to read however, were visits to both Israeli and Palestine natives. The Israeli side has young soldiers who are bored but have to man check points. The Palestinian people he visited are constantly harrassed and in fear and unable to work because of the check point, both the ones that are always manned and those that are set up all of a sudden in a temporary manner. I truly felt that our pledges to Isreal are supporting an unfair situation. The final segment was to Lagos, Nigeria a place of poor and oil rich that sounds like road traffic may be the worst in the worl.
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