[International Series in Operations Research & Management Science] Handbook of Transportation Science Volume 56 || Long-Haul Freight Transportation

✍ Scribed by Hall, Randolph W.

• Book ID: 120267042
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 937 KB
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781402072468
• DOI: 10.1007/0-306-48058-1_13

✦ Synopsis

Over the past thirty-five years, a substantial amount of theoretical and empirical scholarly research has been developed across the discipline domains of Transportation. This research has been synthesized into a systematic handbook that examines the scientific concepts, methods, and principles of this growing and evolving field. The Handbook of Transportation Science outlines the field of transportation as a scientific discipline that transcends transportation technology and methods. Whether by car, truck, airplane - or by a mode of transportation that has not yet been conceived - transportation obeys fundamental properties. The science of transportation defines these properties, and demonstrates how our knowledge of one mode of transportation can be used to explain the behavior of another. Transportation scientists are motivated by the desire to explain spatial interactions that result in movement of people or objects from place to place. Its methodologies draw from physics, operations research, probability and control theory.

"...defines transportation as a scientific discipline covering its fundamental concepts, methods & principles whether by car, truck, airplane & demonstrating how our knowledge of one mode explains the behavior of another."