Transportation Policy

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Canadian News Synthesis Project - June 1975: Volume III Number 6
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - May 1976: Volume IV Number 3
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
Website
2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
Dark Age Ahead
Jacobs, Jane
Book
2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Seifried, Dieter
Book
1990
Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativ...
Not a Sentimental Journey: What's Behind the VIA Rail Cuts, What YOU Can Do About It
Davis, Jo (ed)
Book
1990
A response to the attack on passenger rail service in Canada.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017: Public Transit
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many...
Our transportation future
Article
1990
The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
Snake Oil in a Computer: The Pseudo-science of Transportation Modeling
Vandeman, Michael J.
Article
1991
Planners, politicians, and other decision-makers want to know what effect their projects will have on the environment. In many cases they don't really want to know, but want to convince their constitu...
STOL lands again
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
Engler, Yves; Mugyenyi, Bianca
Book
2011
A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
Transport Policy and the Environment: Six Case Studies
Barde, Jean-Philippe; Button, Kenneth
Book
1990

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Transport Action Canada
Organization
Promoting environmentally-sound transportation options.