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Transportation Networks: Recent Methodological Advances - book by Bell, M.G.H. DESCRIPTION: This volume comprises twenty papers originally presented at the 4th Meeting of the EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) held in Newcastle. Topics covered at the conference included: traffic assignment; estimation of origin-destination flows; traffic modelling; t... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The scope for transportation is very large and growing, and includes the main fields of road, rail, maritime and air traffic. The developing new techniques within these fields are capable of delivering more efficient, more productive, and safer transport. The IFAC Symposia on Transporta... view more info and the price of this book. |
Understanding Travel Behaviour in an Era of Change - book by Stopher, P.;Lee-Gosselin, M. DESCRIPTION: Travel behaviour research has a pivotal role to play in informing the current worldwide debate over the degree to which the growth in personal travel, notably by private motor vehicle, should be encouraged or controlled. At stake are complex public interests concerning air quality, ener... view more info and the price of this book. |
Activity-Based Approaches to Travel Analysis - book by Ettema, D.F.;Timmermans, H.J.P DESCRIPTION: Societal trends have made the need for better travel demand forecasts more urgent, at the same time as making people's travel and activity patterns far more complex. Traditional traffic flow models are no longer sophisticated enough to cope. Activity analysis is seen by many as the solu... view more info and the price of this book. |
Fundamentals of Transportation and Traffic Operations - book by Daganzo, C.F. DESCRIPTION: The basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field that should be understood by every transportation professional are presented here in a thorough, coherent, and self-contained way. Introductory chapters on "tools" cover topics such as graphical methods, optimization,... view more info and the price of this book. |
Information Systems in Logistics and Transportation - book by Tilanus, B. DESCRIPTION: Rapid developments in information technology have many implications for the organisation and management of transport and logistics. Information technology has transcended the borders of the individual firm. Management control and decision making throughout the supply chain has therefore... view more info and the price of this book. |
Observational Before-After Studies in Road Safety - book by Hauer, E. DESCRIPTION: This three part monograph aims to enable road safety researchers and professionals to interpret correctly the results of one of the main sources of knowledge about the effect of road safety engineering measures, the "observational Before-After study". Part I, ESSENTIALS - contains infor... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This volume presents a balanced and representative overview of the major developments and trends in Traffic and Transport Psychology. Traffic and Transport Psychology covers and enormously diverse field with many different theoretical and methodological approaches. Driver behaviour the... view more info and the price of this book. |
Theoretical Foundations of Travel Choice Modeling - book by Garling, T.;Laitila, T.;Westin, K. DESCRIPTION: This volume fulfills a long-felt need for a single text which documents the theoretical foundations of travel choice modeling. With contributions from a good cross-section of the leading researchers in the field, the work provides a valuable reference which will be of lasting interest a... view more info and the price of this book. |
Going trans-European: Planning and Financing Transport Networks for Europe - book by Turro, Mateu DESCRIPTION: This book is directed at a wide range of readers interested in transport and/or European policies. It gives an overview of the current problems and challenges facing the European transport system and explains how a new European policy on transport infrastructure is emerging. The author ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Elsevier's Dictionary of Containers and Dangerous Goods - book by Zilberberg, L.J. DESCRIPTION: The dictionary will contain terms related to containers and dangerous goods, medical terms in relation to accidents involving dangerous goods, chemicals most frequently involved in accidents, segregation terms and groups, reglementation of dangerous goods, conventions, codes and directi... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Handbook of Road Safety Measures - book by Elvik, Rune;Vaa, Truls DESCRIPTION: Road safety can be improved. This book tells you how to do it. It is a catalogue of more than 100 road safety measures whose effect have been evaluated and quantified in studies made all over the world. The results of more than 1,700 road safety evaluation studies are summarised in th... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Our transportation networks are the basic infrastructure supporting our daily life and economic activities and are in constant need of improvement and maintenance - but who should pay for their improvement? The state through direct and indirect taxes? The user through tolls and fares? T... view more info and the price of this book. |
Elsevier's Dictionary of Transports and Logistics - book by Michaux, J.P. DESCRIPTION: Elsevier's Dictionary of Transports and Logistics contains a collection of words and expressions pertaining to the transport profession, not only transport, but also the related semantic fields, such as: accountancy, customs, insurance, handling and warehousing. Also the various branche... view more info and the price of this book. |
Rural Transport Policy - book by Cullinane, S.;Stokes, G. DESCRIPTION: This book is unique in addressing rural transport policy issues in a comprehensive and rigorous way. Much has been written in recent years about urban transport and policy, but in both transport research itself and in implemented transport policies we have seen rural transport needs tak... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This collection of papers, presented by the leading researchers in the field, addresses the fundamental topics within travel behaviour research and serves both to define the state of the art and to stimulate future research. The work presented in this book is pivotal to an understanding... view more info and the price of this book. |
Managing Fatigue in Transportation - book by Hartley, L. DESCRIPTION: This book is concerned with driver fatigue across all transport modes. Most research into the effects of fatigue has been restricted to studies of road users but with new estimates showing more crashes can be attributed to fatigue than previously thought, fatigue is increasingly being s... view more info and the price of this book. |
Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control - book by Griffiths, J.D. DESCRIPTION: This volume contains forty of the papers presented at the International Conference on Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control which was held at Cardiff University from 1-3 April, 1998. This was the third such conference run under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematics and It... view more info and the price of this book. |
Transportation and Traffic Theory - book by Ceder, A. DESCRIPTION: 1999 marks the 40th anniversary of the inception of the ISTTT symposia. It is clear that much has changed in the field of transportation in the last 40 years but in this time the ISTTT triennial symposia have remained the premier series of conferences in transportation science. Presente... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Canadian port reform: an evolutionary process (M.C. Ircha, F.R. Wilson). Privatisation and restructuring of shipping companies in transition economies (K.-Heinz Breitzmann, Falk von Seck). An empirical investigation of professional ship manager - client relationshi... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: A multi-modal transport model for integrated planning (M. Friedrich). Impact de l'accessibilité dans un système de transport en environnement concurrentiel (A. de Palma, O. Sanchez). A multimodal model for traffic and transport in Flanders (Antwerp): ... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: A comparison of elasticities derived from multinomial logit, nested logit and heteroscedastic extreme value SP-RP discrete choice models (D. Hensher, J. Louviere). Implicit availability/perception logit models for route choice in transportation networks (E. Cascett... view more info and the price of this book. |
World Transport Research : Transport Policy - book by Meersman, H.;Van de Voorde, E.;Winkelmans, W. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Delta/start: adding land use analysis to integrated transport models (D. Simmonds, B. Still). Modelling long-period trip patterns with time and money constraints - the tilt land use transportation model (J. Eliasson, L.-G. Mattsson). An extended family of traff... view more info and the price of this book. |
World Transport Research : 4-Volume Set - book by Meersman, H.;Van de Voorde, E.;Winkelmans, W. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Meersman, H.;Van de Voorde, E.;Winkelmans, W. PAGES: 2714 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/12/1999 ISBN Number: 0-08-043590-4... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Transportation Economics, Volume 5 - book by Starr McMullen, B. DESCRIPTION: This volume of Research in Transportation Economics reflects the changes that are occurring in the transportation arena as we enter the twenty-first century. In the US, the transportation industries, rail and trucking in particular, are still adjusting to deregulation that has taken pla... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Transport Modelling - book by Hensher, D.A.;Button, K.J. DESCRIPTION: Transportation involves a large number of complex and interacting relationships that are often difficult to analyze. Modelling involves the simplification and abstraction of the underlying, key relationships that assist this analysis. To this end, the last forty years have witnessed t... view more info and the price of this book. |
Sea Change in Liner Shipping - book by Brooks, M.R. DESCRIPTION: Transport policy is undergoing major changes which transcend national boundaries. Meanwhile, strategic alliances and mergers are changing the face of the liner shipping business. A re-examination of competition policy as it relates to liner shipping is underway. This book not only exami... view more info and the price of this book. |
Globalization and Strategic Alliances - book by Oum, T.H.;Park, J.-H.;Zhang, A. DESCRIPTION: In the foreseeable future the alliance will become an increasingly important feature of the airline industry around the world. Despite its growing importance to airline management, aviation policy makers, and research literature, there has not been much rigorous analysis of airline all... view more info and the price of this book. |
Airport Design and Operation - book by Kazda, A.;Caves, R.E. DESCRIPTION: The annual number of airline passengers has doubled in the past decade, putting great strain on the airport system. Increasing volumes of passengers and freight will continue making demands for expansion of airport facilities and construction of new airports. Traditionally airport des... view more info and the price of this book. |
Geographic Information Systems in Transportation Research - book by Thill, J.-C. DESCRIPTION: Computer-based transportation applications and databases have been a fact of life for several decades. Transportation information, however, has often not been accessible in a user-friendly manner, and integrating data from diverse sources has too often been a challenge in itself. Geogra... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Logistics and Supply-Chain Management - book by Brewer, A.M.;Button, K.J.;Hensher, D.A. DESCRIPTION: The quality of transport logistics is now recognized as being vital to the success of many organisations. The ability to transport goods quickly, safely, economically and reliably is seen as vital to a nation's prosperity and capacity to compete in a rapidly globalising economy. Logis... view more info and the price of this book. |
Logistics Systems for Sustainable Cities - book by Taniguchi, Eiichi;Thompson, R G DESCRIPTION: Urban freight transport has become an important issue in urban planning. There are many challenges and problems relating to increasing levels of traffic congestion, environmental impacts and energy consumption. City logistics schemes are relatively new concepts that are aimed at increas... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: While public transport or transit systems have been in existence much longer than road traffic systems, the mathematical analysis techniques so necessary for proper transit planning and operations have lagged far behind that of road traffic systems. For example, the body of literature a... view more info and the price of this book. |
Transportation After Deregulation, 6 - book by McMullen, B Starr DESCRIPTION: Several of the papers in this volume of Research in Transportation Economics are concerned with assessing both the timing and the impacts of deregulation and regulatory reform in the US transportation sector. Of increasing interest is the importance of productivity growth and the role ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control - book by Button, K.J.;Hensher, D.A. DESCRIPTION: Transport is provided across a range of networks. These have grown with time as technology improvements and innovation have allowed individuals to develop new networks and refine systems that already exist. The past two hundred years in particular has seen real transformation, with st... view more info and the price of this book. |
Travel Behaviour Research - book by Hensher, D.A. DESCRIPTION: Developments in methodology and applications in travel behaviour research continue to diversify to capture the growing complexity of human travel activity and coping strategies. The random utility theory (RUM) paradigm on which many econometric and empirical studies have been based sin... view more info and the price of this book. |
Human Factors for Highway Engineers - book by Fuller, R;Santos, Jorge A. DESCRIPTION: Humans are highly mobile but at a price: over a million people are killed annually on the road, at least 30 times as many are injured, of whom 1 in 10 may be permanently disabled. How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to provide both a high level of mobility and... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The damaging environmental impact of urban transport, as recognised by the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. At the same time, urban transport has been causing serious local envir... view more info and the price of this book. |
Measuring the Marginal Social Cost of Transport, 14 - book by Nash, Christopher;Matthews, Bryan DESCRIPTION: Many transport economists have for some time proposed marginal social cost as the principle on which prices in the transport sector should be based and, in recent years, their prescription has come to be taken more and more seriously by policy-makers. However, in order to properly test ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Transportation Labor Issues and Regulatory Reform, 10 - book by Peoples, James;Talley, Wayne DESCRIPTION: Regulatory reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s vastly transformed the labor market for transportation workers. Most research in this area focuses on the effect of deregulation on the earnings of nonmanagement company workers in airline, trucking and rail. Deregulation of transpor... view more info and the price of this book. |
In Perpetual Motion - book by Mahmassani, Hani S DESCRIPTION: Travel behavior interacts in a deep way with how we work and play. Social, intellectual, economic and technological forces continually influence the spatial and temporal activity patterns of individuals and businesses. Developments in the production, dissemination, and consumption of in... view more info and the price of this book. |
Transportation and Traffic Theory in the 21st Century - book by Taylor, M A P DESCRIPTION: This book contains the formal proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), which was held at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia on16-18 July 2002. The ISTTT series is the peak gathering for the world's transportation... view more info and the price of this book. |
Flexible Urban Transportation - book by Gifford, Jonathan L DESCRIPTION: Flexible Urban Transportation is a sweeping reassessment of American highway and transit policy. For the last half-century, this policy has been fixated on planning, designing and constructing the Interstate highway system, and then coping with the creative destruction it wrought.Aggres... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Network Reliability of Transport - book by Bell, Michael G. H.;Iida, Yasunori DESCRIPTION: The reliability of transportation networks has become an increasingly important issue as sustained economic growth and improvements to the quality of life around the world lead to increases in the value of time. Consequently, schedules and routes need to be able to accommodate the unexp... view more info and the price of this book. |
Transport Survey Quality and Innovation - book by Jones, Peter;Stopher, Peter DESCRIPTION: This book provides readers with an overview of the latest developments in transport survey methods from around the world, with an emphasis on survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation, held in ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Traffic & Transport Psychology - book by Rothengatter, Talib;Huguenin, Raphael Denis DESCRIPTION: This volume gives an overview of the trends in Traffic and Transport Psychology. It reflects the considerable development of the most important factors for driving a road vehicle, and the variety of international research approaches. The first part contains basic approaches and integrat... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: No other transportation conference has the scope and authority of the triennial World Conference on Transport Research. These proceedings present 143 papers from the 9th conference (Seoul), representing the latest in transportation research from around the world, and covering a broad ra... view more info and the price of this book. |
Tourism and Transport - book by Lumsdon, Les M.;Page, Stephen DESCRIPTION: Within the tourism field, transport research specifically related to tourism remains substantially neglected despite its dynamic role in the creation of tourist movements at different geographical scales. This volume of edited essays is a seminal study which sets out to address this neg... view more info and the price of this book. |
Railroad Bankruptcies and Mergers from Chicago West: 1975-2001, 7 - book by Conant, Michael DESCRIPTION: Two major U.S. Midwestern railroads, the Rock Island Lines and the Milwauke Road, filed for bankruptcy after 1975 and the Court ordered them dismembered. This study explains the economic factors causing financial failure such as total rail line excess capacity in the region leading to l... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Transport systems, the vital arteries of modern societies and economies, shape our world and are shaped by it. The subject of this volume is the dynamic interactions between transport and the physical, economic, and human geographies it weaves through. Transport plays a central role i... view more info and the price of this book. |
Economic Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 8 - book by Bekiaris, E;Nakanishi, Y J DESCRIPTION: There are unique complexities associated with the economic valuation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and telematics. Traditional methods of quantitative analysis may not be appropriate in accurately and reliably assessing the economic impacts of these technologies. Although ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Road Pricing, 9 - book by Santos, Georgina DESCRIPTION: Traffic congestion affects towns and cities everywhere and in some places it is regarded as one of the most urgent and important problems in need of a solution. Road pricing is undoubtedly recognised as an effective traffic demand management tool. The recent London congestion charging s... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Privatisation, regulation, deregulation, competition, funding, evaluation: these are all transport policy issues of great current interest worldwide, in the public arena as well as among researchers. In 46 chapters by acknowledged experts on their topics, these and other aspects of tra... view more info and the price of this book. |
Public Transport in Developing Countries - book by Iles, Richard DESCRIPTION: Numerous books have been written which deal with transport problems in developed and developing countries, and with the planning and management of transport organisations in developed countries, but none deals specifically with the planning, regulation, management and control of public ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Competition & Ownership in Land Passenger Transport - book by Hensher, David A DESCRIPTION: In 1989 the late Prof Michael Beesley and Prof David Hensher convened a workshop of an invitational group of academics, transport operators and government regulators to review and report on the recent reforms in the British bus sector. The workshop was held in Thredbo, Australia. At the... view more info and the price of this book. |
Mathematical and Economic Theory of Road Pricing - book by Yang, Hai;Huang, Hai-Jun DESCRIPTION: This book provides the most recent methodological advances in applying advanced modeling techniques to road pricing. Distinguished from other monographs that have focused on the empirical aspects, policy experiences, and environmental issues of road congestion and road pricing, most stu... view more info and the price of this book. |
Transportation and Traffic Theory - book by Mahmassani, Hani S DESCRIPTION: The ISTTT series is the main gathering for the world's transportation and traffic theorists, and the resulting volume is a field-defining milestone featuring the most promising thinking and theoretical developments. It reflects the major renewal the field is experiencing, with the entry... view more info and the price of this book. |
Progress in Activity-Based Analysis - book by Timmermans, Harry DESCRIPTION: In recent years, transportation research has seen a gradual shift from trip-based, via tour-based to activity-based models, in an effort to capture the true complexity of travel behaviour. This volume reflects an eventful decade of development and application of activity-based models. ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Control in Transportation Systems 2003 - book by Aoki, Masayoshi;Tsugawa, Sadayuki DESCRIPTION: The Symposium covers the system & control aspects of all transportation modes (road, public, rail, air, maritime) and will host a variety of contributed, invited and plenary papers from academia, traffic and transportation administrations, consultants, and industry. It will cover theore... view more info and the price of this book. |
Integrated Land-Use and Transportation Models - book by Lee-Gosselin, Martin;Doherty, Sean DESCRIPTION: Tools are developing rapidly to aid public agencies and consultants with the management of land-use and transportation. Ever more powerful computers promise new generations of simulation models that allow novel investment strategies and public policies to be "tried on for size" before t... view more info and the price of this book. |
Procurement and Financing of Motorways in Europe, 15 - book by Ragazzi, Giorgio;Rothengatter, Werner DESCRIPTION: This volume raises many challenging and controversial issues surrounding motorway procurement and finance in Europe. A somewhat surprising outcome is that a general appraisal bias can be identified in the following sense: Experts from countries which have introduced concession schemes f... view more info and the price of this book. |
Access to Destinations - book by Levinson, David M;Krizek, Kevin J DESCRIPTION: Much of land use and transportation planning today aims to reduce traffic congestion. However, the barometers typically used to measure congestion provide only a snapshot of a select dimension of a city's transportation system and fail to accurately reflect how easy it is to reach desti... view more info and the price of this book. |
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