Telecommunications, Transportation and Location
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Biographical note
Kenneth Button, University Professor, School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University and the late Roger R. Stough, formerly School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, with Michelle Bragg, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Public Health, University of Sciences, US and Samantha Taylor, Freight, Logistics and Marine Division, Melbourne, Australia<i>'The title says it all. </i>Telecommunications, Transportation and Location<i> delivers insight on the interrelationships between the technologies of communication and mobility and the changing spatial dimensions of society. . . </i>Telecommunications, Transportation and Location<i> offers a very interesting presentation. Copious references and discussion of alternative perspectives permit readers to follow up on arguments. Selective uses of cross-national comparisons helps to highlight the tangible implications of different policy strategies. The authors live up to their promise of sharing insights into complex issues in an accessible language - a significant achievement that benefits and encourages essential interactions among academic, business, and public policy communities.'</i>
- Donald G. Janelle, Journal of Regional Science,
Telecommunications, Transportation and Location contains both sytheses and interpretations of what others have found in regard to these interactions as well as new work that extends earlier findings. The material is presented in a rigorous yet accessible manner to open it to a wide audience of practitioners concerned with policy-making within various levels of government and within private business.
Researchers and academics teaching courses including transportation planning, communications, regional science, urban and regional planning, urban and regional economics and transport economics will find much to engage them within this book. It will also be very useful to logistics professionals, and policymakers and practitioners involved in transportation planning.