The Routledge Handbook of Transportation

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Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 485
Series: Routledge Handbooks
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research. It provides a step-by-step introduction to research related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and performance measurement and evaluation of transportation alternatives.

The Handbook of Transportation demonstrates models and methods for predicting travel and freight demand, planning future transportation networks, and developing traffic control systems. Readers will learn how to use various engineering concepts and approaches to make future transportation safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Edited by Dusan Teodorovic and featuring 29 chapters from more than 50 leading global experts, with more than 200 illustrations, the Routledge Handbook of Transportation is designed as an invaluable resource for professionals and students in transportation planning and engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 18
Foreword......Page 26
Preface......Page 28
1 Introduction......Page 30
2 Traffic Flow Theory......Page 34
3 Traffic Network Modeling......Page 54
4 Freeway Traffic Control......Page 71
5 Road Traffic Control......Page 86
6 Evolution of Intelligent Transportation Systems......Page 105
7 Autonomous Intersection Management for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles......Page 117
8 Behavioral Approaches for Combating Aggressive Driving......Page 134
9 Pedestrian Transportation......Page 148
10 Bicycle Transportation......Page 172
11 Traffic Crash Analysis and Prevention......Page 194
12 Travel Behavior in Response to Network Disruptions......Page 206
13 Transportation Planning......Page 217
14 Transportation and Land Use......Page 240
15 Public Transportation Systems......Page 255
16 Vehicle Routing and Scheduling......Page 267
17 Airport Planning and Design......Page 286
18 The ATC (Air Traffic Control) System......Page 304
19 Railway Planning and Operations......Page 319
20 Inland Waterway Transportation......Page 336
21 Maritime Transportation......Page 350
22 Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Issues and Challenges for Modern Production Systems......Page 363
23 City Logistics......Page 374
24 Transportation, Energy, and the Environment......Page 382
25 Transportation Economics......Page 407
26 Queueing in Transportation Systems......Page 421
27 Location Analysis in Transportation......Page 444
28 Efficiency Performance Measurement for Transportation Systems: A Primer Using an Empirical Frontier Perspective......Page 457
29 GIS and Transportation......Page 466
Index......Page 477

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