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Routledge Handbook of Transportation
About This Book
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 Dušan Teodorovi? 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Traffic Flow Theory
- 3 Traffic Network Modeling
- 4 Freeway Traffic Control
- 5 Road Traffic Control
- 6 Evolution of Intelligent Transportation Systems
- 7 Autonomous Intersection Management for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
- 8 Behavioral Approaches for Combating Aggressive Driving
- 9 Pedestrian Transportation
- 10 Bicycle Transportation
- 11 Traffic Crash Analysis and Prevention
- 12 Travel Behavior in Response to Network Disruptions
- 13 Transportation Planning
- 14 Transportation and Land Use
- 15 Public Transportation Systems
- 16 Vehicle Routing and Scheduling
- 17 Airport Planning and Design
- 18 The ATC (Air Traffic Control) System
- 19 Railway Planning and Operations
- 20 Inland Waterway Transportation
- 21 Maritime Transportation
- 22 Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Issues and Challenges for Modern Production Systems
- 23 City Logistics
- 24 Transportation, Energy, and the Environment
- 25 Transportation Economics
- 26 Queueing in Transportation Systems
- 27 Location Analysis in Transportation
- 28 Efficiency Performance Measurement for Transportation Systems: A Primer Using an Empirical Frontier Perspective
- 29 GIS and Transportation
- Index