Green Cities and Transportation
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Ariadna Reyes, The University of Texas at Arlington
Soheil Sharif-Asl, The University of Texas at Arlington
Ladan Mozaffarian, The University of Texas at Arlington
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Publisher: Mavs Open Press
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- About the Instituiton
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1: Sustainability, Transportation, and City Planning
- Section 2: Case Studies, Strategies, and Lessons from the North and South
- Section 3: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cities, and Mobility
- Image Credits
- Glossary
- Accessibility Rubric
- Errata and Versioning History
Ancillary Material
Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
This textbook equips advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, skills, and multidisciplinary perspectives needed to understand how sustainable mobility and infrastructure can support climate change mitigation and transportation equity for low-income commuters.
The textbook is organized into three sections:
- Sustainability, Transportation Equity, and Planning.
- Case Studies and Lessons from the North and South.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cities, and Mobility.
It includes eleven chapters, each featuring discussion questions, reading materials, and in-class exercises designed to help students develop a research paper on transportation.
This textbook is part of a six-volume series produced under the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.
About the Contributors
Authors
Dr. Ariadna Reyes is an Assistant Professor in Planning at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. She teaches planning, sustainable communities, green cities, and transportation courses. Before this, she was a research associate at the Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Shifts Program at Penn’s Perry World House. She earned a Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture in 2018. She received the Fulbright-Garcia Robles and Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) grants as a doctoral researcher. Her research provides a comprehensive approach to housing, transportation, and sustainability. Her study on the transportation burdens of low-income communities in Mexico City has been published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Studies, and Transportation Research Part D. Her current research will reveal the transportation and climate injustices that low-income residents of color face in North Texas.
Soheil Sharif-Asl is a Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. Holding a master’s and bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of Tehran and completing his dissertations in transportation, Soheil is interested in urban transport, transportation equity, transportation infrastructure planning, public transit planning and modeling, transportation big data, and statistical models.
Ladan Mozaffarian is a Ph.D. student of Urban Planning and Public Policy (UPPP) at The University of Texas at Arlington. Ladan completed her Master of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture from SBU in Tehran, Iran. As a graduate research assistant (GRA), Ladan has worked on different research projects at the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions, and Dollars (CTEDD).