Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Urban Transport in Pakistan (Record no. 27703)
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| fixed length control field | 02368nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780195476668 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 388.4095491 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Imran, Muhammad |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Urban Transport in Pakistan |
| Statement of responsibility | Muhammad Imran |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Karachi |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxv,298 Pages |
| Other physical details | 14x22 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Figures, Tables, References and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book considers the history of Pakistan's urban transport, and demonstrates that ideas transferred from the developed world have resulted in a policy mismatch with local needs for mobility, safety and sustainability. The concept of path dependence explains this mismatch, with the remedy being to build the policy capacity of local institutions. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Why is public transport so inefficient in Pakistani cities? Where does the problem lie? This book is the first serious effort to answer these questions. At present urban transport in Pakistan is managed by building larger and better roads. By contrast the principles of sustainable urban transport encourage the use of non-motorized and public transport. These modes of transport can be more successful in high density Pakistani cities, but the direction of transport policy is in the opposite direction: towards heavy investment only in roads. The study of transport institutions in Pakistan indicates that transport solutions are primarily a matter of the export of knowledge from the developed to the developing world. This results in a mismatch of transport policy with local needs for mobility and safety, as well as ecological sustainability. The concept of path dependence is developed to explore how urban transport solutions in Pakistan become locked-in over time as a result of past decisions on infrastructure investment, funding priorities, organizational structure, specific techniques and mental models of international and local institutions. This book identifies institutions, techniques and discourse fields in path dependence as barriers to sustainable urban transport in Pakistan and suggested building the policy capacity of local institutions for institutional change in Pakistani cities. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Urban transportation policy |
| -- | Pakistan |
| -- | Urban transportation--Planning |
| -- | Urban transportation |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Foreword by Low, Nicholas |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-04-07 | CRV/GPLM/Oxford-10 | 496.87 | 388.4095491 I349I 2010 | 33414 | Books |