Sage Handbook of Transport Studies

摘要

As with many edited collections, this book is large. Weighing in just shy of 1 kg (983 g to be precise) and measuring just over 33 by 23 cm in length and breadth, its 4 cm of thickness arrived on my desk with a resounding thud. Physically, it is more of a 'deskbook' than a handbook: if I were a practitioner implementing new infrastructure in the field, I would be unlikely to take this on site due to its volume alone. Another problem with edited tomes is consistency: the enormous compilation on "Energy, Transport and the Environment" (Inderwildi and King, 2012), for example, is composed almost entirely of versions of existing papers which have little in common. I was pleased to see that consistency in this book was much better. The editors have clearly ensured that each chapter was well integrated with the others.