Handbook of Transportation Engineering - Hardcover

Kutz, Myer

9780071391221: Handbook of Transportation Engineering

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071391223 ISBN 13: 9780071391221

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

This is the ultimate guide to transportation system upgrades. For anyone striving to increase the efficiency, performance, capacity, or safety of any transportation system, Myer Kutz's "Handbook of Transportation Engineering" is an unbeatable asset. Packed with practical tools and strategies, this problem-solving resource helps you forge transport system solutions that work on all levels, including the all-important bottom line. You can improve any system.Covering all varieties of transportation systems - air, rail, road, and water; local, regional, national, and international; freight and passenger, and facilities - "Handbook of Transportation Engineering" provides: problem-solving engineering tools for transportation systems of all types, including mass transit; planning and design techniques, with examples of successful applications; stratagems for deriving positive results from the complex interplay among policy-making, planning, management, operations, and technology; guidance on cost-effective repair of roads and bridges; methods for improving air traffic control systems, airline scheduling, and ground operations; practical applications that solve problems in rail and freight transportation; and, expert help with noise and air pollution.

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Covering all varieties of transportation systems, including freight, passenger, and mass transit air, rail, road, and water systems at the local,regional, national, and international levels, this handbook provides problem-solving engineering tools, planning and design techniques with examples of successful applications, and stratagems for deriving positive results from the complex interplay among policy-making, planning, management, operations, and technology. The handbook offers guidance on providing for pedestrians and bicycles, help with noise and air pollution issues, and methods for improving air traffic control systems,airline scheduling, and ground operations. The editor is president of a publishing and information services consulting firm. Sci-Tech Book News 20040601

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THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM UPGRADES

For anyone striving to increase the efficiency, performance, capacity, or safety of any transportation system, Myer Kutz's Handbook of Transportation Engineering is an unbeatable asset. Packed with practical tools and strategies, this problem-solving resource helps you forge transport system solutions that work on all levels, including the all-important bottom line.

IMPROVE ANY SYSTEM
Covering all varieties of transportation systems -- air, rail, road, and water; local, regional, national, and international; freight and passenger, and facilities -- Handbook of Transportation Engineering provides:

* Problem-solving engineering tools for transportation systems of all types, including mass transit
* Planning and design techniques, with examples of successful applications
* Stratagems for deriving positive results from the complex interplay among policy-making, planning, management, operations, and technology
* Guidance on cost-effective repair of roads and bridges
* Methods for improving air traffic control systems, airline scheduling, and ground operations
* Practical applications that solve problems in rail and freight transportation
* Expert help with noise and air pollution

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