Accessibility refers to the ease with which people can access or participate in employment, shopping, education, health, enter-tainment, social and other activities available in an area. The word ‘accessible’ is often more narrowly used to describe im-provements to transport for people with physical and other disabilities.
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Benchmarking (also "best practice benchmarking" or "process benchmarking") is a process used in management -- particu-larly strategic management -- in which organizations evaluate various aspects of their processes in relation to best practice, usually within their own sector. This then allows organizations to develop plans on how to adopt such ‘best practice’, usually with the aim of increasing some aspect of performance. Benchmarking may be a single event, but is often treated as a continuous process in which organizations continually seek to challenge their practices.
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A technique or methodology that, through experience and re-search, has proven to reliably lead to a desired result. In gov-ernment, there is special interest in best practice exchange as -- unlike commercial enterprises -- there is no competitive in-centive to keep best practices secret.
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A tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned
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In town planning, brownfield land is an area of land previously used or built upon, as opposed to greenfield land which has never been built upon. In some cases, it may be land previ-ously used by industry or commercial uses such as fuelling stations or mining, and therefore may be contaminated by hazardous waste or pollution. Generally, brownfield sites exist in a town's industrial section, in abandoned factories or other previously high-polluting buildings. Small brownfields may also be found in many older residential neighbourhoods.
The redevelopment of these brownfield sites is an important part of the new urbanism.
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Bus lanes are traffic lanes on a roadway that are for the use of buses. Bus lanes can be exclusively for buses and or shared with taxis and high occupancy vehicles.
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Car-sharing is a system in which a fleet of cars (or other vehi-cles) is owned by a company or cooperative and available for use by members of the car share. Typically, the participants in such a program are city dwellers whose transportation needs are largely met by public transit, walking or cycling. Some households use a car share as an alternative to the hassles of owning (and parking) a second car.
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Long-term changes in temperature, precipitation, wind and all other aspects of the Earth's climate. Often regarded as a result of human activity and fossil fuel consumption.
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EU funding schemes targeted towards urban transport; Civitas other FP7 calls, Intelligent Energy (renewable fuels/energy efficient transport), Marco Polo. More general funding instru-ments Interreg (different strands, A, B and C and geographical coverage), LIFE+, Urbact. Structural and cohesion funds in general. http://cordis.europa.eu/, http://www.civitas-initiative.eu/, http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html, http://ec.europa.eu/transport/marcopolo/2/index_en.htm, http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
External costs An external cost is a cost not included in the market price of the goods and services being produced, i.e., a cost not borne by those who create it.
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Transportation of goods by ship, aircraft or other vehicles.
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Concept meaning that all human beings are free to develop their personal abilities and make choices without the limita-tions set by strict gender roles; that the different behaviour, aspirations and needs of women and men are considered, val-ued and favoured equally.
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Fairness of treatment by gender, which may be equal treat-ment or treatment which is different but which is considered equivalent in terms of rights, benefits, obligations and oppor-tunities.
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Intelligent Transportation Systems include the application of advanced information processing (computers), communica-tions, technologies and management strategies in an inte-grated manner in order to improve the safety, capacity and efficiency of the transportation system.
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A movement of goods using more than one means of transpor-tation. The most common intermodal arrangement is for goods to be moved by truck at their origin, transferred to rail for the long haul between regions, and transferred again to truck near their destination.
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The incorporation of an externality into the market decision-making process through pricing or regulatory interventions. In the narrow sense, internalisation is achieved by charging pol-luters (for example) with the damage costs of the pollution generated by them, in accordance with ‘the polluter pays’ prin-ciple.
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Least-Cost Planning is an approach to resource planning that:
• Considers demand management solutions equally with strategies to increase capacity.
• Considers all significant impacts (costs and benefits), in-cluding non-market impacts.
• Involves the public in developing and evaluating alterna-tives.

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Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources from the source of production to the marketplace. The convergence of economic, political and technological forces in the mid-1990s dramatically increased the importance of logistics. The delivery of goods overtook production as the most critical fac-tor in business success. Almost overnight, the responsibility of logistics grew from simply getting a product out the door to the science of controlling the optimal flow of goods, energy, and information through the purchasing, planning and trans-portation management. In the wake of this change, the role of logistics went from local to global, tactical to strategic, and from the backroom to the boardroom.
http://www.logisticsinstitute.com/about_us/what_is_logistics.php

The ability of groups or individuals to relocate/change jobs or to physically move from one place to another.
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Mobility Management is primarily a demand-oriented approach to passenger and freight transport that involves new partner-ships and new tools. The aim is to support and encourage a change of attitude and behaviour towards sustainable modes of transport. The tools of mobility management are based on information, communication, organization and co-ordination. These tools require promotion. Mobility Management, which is both a novel and promising concept to promote sustainable transport, varies from country-to-country both in terms of scope and level of implementation.
www.epomm.org (European platform on Mobility Management)

The proportion of total person-trips assigned to each available transport mode
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Strategies aimed at making better use of the available parking supply. Parking management strategies include preferential parking or price discounts for carpools and/or short-term park-ers, and disincentives for those contributing more to conges-tion.
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Participatory planning - is involving the entire community in the strategic and management processes of urban planning.
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The conveyance of people over land, water or through air by automobile, bus, train, airplane or some other means of travel.
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Public Private Partnership - cooperative venture between the public and private sectors, built on the expertise of each part-ner that best meets clearly defined public needs through the appropriate allocation of resources, risks and rewards. Cana-dian council for public-private partnership http://www.pppcouncil.ca/

The act or the means of conveying people in mass as opposed to conveyance in private vehicles.
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Public transport comprises all transport systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles. It is also called ‘public transit’ or ‘mass transit’. While it is generally taken to mean rail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxicab services, etc., i.e., any system that transports members of the general public.
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Altering the sequence or timing of traffic signal phases using special detection in order to provide preferential treatment.
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Energy sources that do not rely on fuels of which there are only finite stocks. The most widely-used renewable source is hydroelectric power. Other renewable sources are biomass energy, solar energy, tidal energy, wave energy and wind en-ergy.
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Positive action taken to include all sectors of society in plan-ning and other decision-making.
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Spatial planning refers to the methods used by the public sec-tor to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales. This includes urban (urban planning), regional (regional planning), national and international levels.
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In the last decades of the 20th century, the word "stakeholder" has evolved to mean a person or organisation that has a le-gitimate interest in a project or entity. In discussing the deci-sion-making process for institutions -- including large business corporations, government agencies and non-profit organiza-tions -- the concept has been broadened to include everyone with an interest (or "stake") in what the entity does. That in-cludes not only its vendors, employees, and customers, but even members of a community where its offices or factory may affect the local economy or environment.
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Sustainable development indicators are indicators that meas-ure progress made in sustainable growth and development. They can provide an early warning, sounding the alarm in time to prevent economic, social and environmental damage. They are also important tools to communicate ideas of sustainable development. Indicators for monitoring progress towards sus-tainable development are needed in order to assist decision-makers and policy-makers at all levels and to increase focus on sustainable development. Beyond the commonly used eco-nomic indicators of well-being, however, social, environmental and institutional indicators have to be taken into account as well to arrive at a broader, more complete picture of societal development.
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Transportation Demand Management (TDM) (also known as  Mobility Management) is a general term for various strategies that increase transportation system efficiency. TDM treats mo-bility as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. It em-phasizes the movement of people and goods, rather than mo-tor vehicles, and so gives priority to more efficient modes (such as walking, cycling, ridesharing, public transit and tele-work), particularly under congested conditions. It prioritizes travel based on the value and costs of each trip, giving higher value trips and lower cost modes priority over lower value, higher cost travel, when doing so increases overall system effi-ciency.
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Pejorative term for low-density development in suburban and the fringe of urban areas. Characteristics include distance from employment and commercial centres, dependence on automo-bile travel, extended public Infrastructure and little In-Fill De-velopment.
urban sprawl. Answers.com. Dictionary of Real Estate Terms, Barron's Educational Series, Inc, 2004. http://www.answers.com/topic/urban-sprawl, accessed August 31, 2007