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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Trains, Buses, People
    sub title: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
  name:
    name part: Spieler, Christof.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 251 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Transit planners, elected representatives, and transportation enthusiasts should all find something to love or learn in this honest and expansive status report." Atlantic's CityLab "Spieler knows this subject to a significant depth but has managed something remarkable, perhaps mirrored in his choice of the accessible atlas format: he has made a great deal of comparative information very easy to understand and digest. The approach is tailor-made to help convince nonexperts-be they the general public or perhaps more importantly politicians and others with influence-to mimic the good and avoid the bad...The end result makes the book a compelling and useful compendium of the state of transit in the United States." Civil Engineering "Gets right to the point: put [transit] where the people are...The author combines detailed knowledge and a refreshing frankness...Keep this book within easy reach." Planning "Spieler's book is perfectly designed to be both readable and browsable-a great gift for an urbanist or transport geek and a great book for the coffee table. You can read around in for a long time, exploring different cities, their strengths and their missed opportunities. Let's hope it produces a smarter conversation about urban transit." Jarett Walker's Human Transit blog "A transit wonk's bible...Urban planner Christof Spieler is a transportation hero." Mobility Lab "Belongs on an urbanist's bookshelf...one of the best transit/planning books I've read in a long time." Greater Greater Washington "This edifying publication...serves as an awakening guide to planning both feasible and practical public-transit systems." San Francisco Book Review "For all of their hardcore infrastructure, urban transit networks are essentially human creations, and understanding what makes them successful is essential for building successful cities. Supported by urban histories and incisively presented data, Christof Spieler sets the rules of engagement for effective transit and offers a ro…
  note: by Christof Spieler.
  subject:
    topic: Transportation engineering
  subject:
    topic: Traffic engineering
  subject:
    topic: United States-Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Automobile industry and trade
  subject:
    topic: Urban geography
  subject:
    topic: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering
  subject:
    topic: American Culture
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Automotive Industry
  subject:
    topic: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
  classification: TA1001-1280
  classification: HE331-380
  classification: 629.04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781610919043
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-904-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 190703
    record change date: 20191026022144.0
    record identifier: 978-1-61091-904-3