Karen Lucas

How does Santa Claus get in when you don't have a chimney? In Santa's Magical Key, author Karen Lucas offers a modern twist to the traditional story. This rhyming picture book for children follows the cadence of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and shares Santa's creativity in leaving gifts for little boys and girls when the house doesn't have a chimney. With the help of his magic key, Santa has the secret weapon that enables him to deliver presents to kids everywhere no matter where they live.

No Chimney? No Problem!

Santa's Magical Key

Evelyn Blumenberg

Rachel Weinberger

While the individual benefits of car-based travel continues to be recognized, the wider environmental and social cost of automobiles is also significant. This title evaluates the evidence for better understanding 'what drives us to drive'.

Understanding Car Use Behaviours

Auto Motives

Karel Martens

Floridea Di Ciommo

Ariane Dupont-Kieffer

Measuring Transport Equity provides a methodology with the potential to shape the transportation decision-making processes, thus allowing for the adoption of more equitable transport solutions. Focusing on numerous applied methodological approaches to transport equity assessment, the book formalizes the disciplinary practice, definitions and methodologies for transport equity. In addition, it recognizes the different types of equity and acknowledges that each requires their own assessment methodologies. Bringing together the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for assessing transportation accessibility, environmental impacts, health and wellbeing, the book sets standards for researchers, policymakers and practitioners for conducting social impact analyses. Written by a collection of top researchers in the transport field Shows how to apply transport equity measurement ideas in the real-world through case study examples Covers emerging transport topics, including the use of the Gini index for measuring inequality Includes learning aids, such as methodology, application, policy relevance and further reading

Measuring Transport Equity

Lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to social inclusion. However, 'transport poverty', and its links with wider welfare objectives, is poorly understood. This book looks at the delivery of transport from a social policy perspective to assist in a better understanding of this issue.

Karen Lucas

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