Handbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I, 2e: 1 (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) - Hardcover

Kutz, Myer

9780071614924: Handbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I, 2e: 1 (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING)

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ISBN 10: 0071614923 ISBN 13: 9780071614924

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2011

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The definitive transportation engineering resource--fully revised and updated

The two-volume Handbook of Transportation Engineering, Second Edition offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the entire transportation engineering field. Featuring 18 new chapters and contributions from nearly 70 leading experts, this authoritative work discusses all types of transportation systems--freight, passenger, air, rail, road, marine, and pipeline--and provides problem-solving engineering, planning, and design tools and techniques with examples of successful applications. Volume I focuses on transportation networks and systems, operations, and economics.

VOLUME I COVERS:

National transportation networks and inter-modal systems
Transportation network planning: theoretical notions
Reliability of travel times and robustness of transport networks
Transportation systems modeling and evaluation
Software systems and simulation for transportation applications
Applications of GIS in transportation
Travel demand forecasting
Transportation and land use
Sustainable transportation practice
Transportation planning and modeling
Transportation economics
Innovative information technology applications in public transportation
Parking management
Management of transportation organizations
Trucking operations
The economics of railroad operations: resurgence of a declining industry
Airline management and operations
The marine transportation system
Global logistics
Freight transportation planning

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