Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the transport system; especially in densely populated areas. At the same time however; governments are under increasing pressure to cut taxation. As a result there is a growing gap between increasing policy need for public transport and government resources to fund that need. This timely book explores one solution to this dilemma; which is the use of local charges and taxes dedicated to support public transport. Unfare Solutions examines how and why such charges have evolved and how they do (or do not) relate to modern transport policy developments and theory. It shows innovative funding techniques developed by both public transport providers and federal and local authorities.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Strong rhetoric meets deep structureBy M. MooreIf there was a book to introduce graduate students of architecture; art history and modern humanist theory; this is it. With clear; dictated arguments and strong logical arrangement of sources and topics; it invites the reader to invest in the content. It presumes much; however; about the extent of knowledge concerning semiotics from its readers. It is a sustained argument in several phases--citing Ernst Cassirer; Le Corbusier; Jakob Johann von Uexkull; Siegfried Giedion Joseph Rykwert; Merleau-Ponty and others--and at once maintains a fluidity of discourse and relentless brutality of presentation and refutation. I gave it one star less than perfect because; like all publications from MIT Press and Routeledge it is a very abbreviated account of something that should be longer; often combining words that are difficult in themselves with a syntax that demands their lucidity. I like pentasyllabic words and erstwhile prefixes; but sometimes enough is enough. But it is not as bad as Deleuze and Guattari.Excellent bibliographic and scholarly references.Buy it only if seriously interested in the topics.