书目名称 | Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities |
副标题 | Case Studies from In |
编辑 | Suryani Eka Wijaya,Muhammad Imran |
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概述 | Challenges ideas about promoting Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as a quick solution to sustainability.Identifies the complexity of urban transport governance in low-income Asian cities.Highlights factors tha |
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描述 | Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people’s mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion. Following successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects in Bogota and Curitibá, LIA countries promoted BRT in their large to medium-sized cities. However, the political and institutional structure distinctive to LIA cities makes their implementation difficult. This book investigates policy tensions by examining the planning and attempted implementation of BRT projects, taking Bandung and Surabaya in Indonesia as case studies. It analyses BRT to understand how power and communication gaps in institutional relationships between different actors at multiple levels of governance create conflict, and concludes that top-down policies and funding mechanisms cause tension in intergovernmental relationships. It also found that BRT solutions generated socio-political tension arising from the socio-economic realitiesand local political dynamics that shaped city structure, mobility patterns and capacity in resolving conflicts. The superimposed BRT solution generated discursive tension because conflicting discourses were not aligned w |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) in Low Income Asian Cities; BRT in Indonesian cities; BRT in Bandung; BRT in Su |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2938-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-2938-8 |
copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 |