Transport planning and policy

Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.

This fully revised fourth edition of Max Lay's well-established reference work covers all aspects of the technology of roads and road transport, and urban and rural road technology.

In this book, the author outlines a Robust Web Parking, Truck and Transportation Portal (RWPTTP) for integrating parking and transportation services - a revolutionary approach in contrast to incremental change for managing traffic congestion.

For much of the past century, we have viewed the issue of parking from the driver's seat.

Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential part of tackling both problems.

An introduction to the problems and practices of planning in London.

As transport networks become more congested, there is a growing need to adopt policies that manage demand and make full use of existing assets.

Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

Transport systems have to meet the mobility needs of people and commodities on all scales, from the local to the global level.

Every three years, researchers with interest and expertise in transport survey methods meet to improve and influence the conduct of surveys that support transportation planning, policy making, modelling, and monitoring related issues for urban, regional, intercity, and international person, vehicle, and commodity movements.

This book delves into the urban planning theory of "e;smart growth"e; to encourage the creation of smart cities, where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system.

Originally published in 1982 and contributed to by a range of international authors and experts in the field of transport accessibility, this volume discusses the position of urban and rural transport problems of the elderly and disabled in the UK, USA, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden.

The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis.

Vulnerability Analysis for Transportation Networks provides an integrated framework for understanding and addressing how transportation networks across all modes perform when parts of the network fail or are substantially degraded, such as extreme weather events, natural disasters, road crashes, congestion incidents or road repair.

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades.

Introduction to Container Ship Operations and Onboard Safety is an introduction for students and professionals involved in the maritime industry.

Weigh-in-motion (WIM) is a process of measuring the dynamic tire forces of a moving vehicle and estimating the corresponding tire loads of the static vehicle.

Already the market leader in the field, Modelling Transport has become still more indispensible following a thorough and detailed update.

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity.

Poor roads and transport infrastructure are key factors in the marginalization of women and other disempowered groups, but there is little understanding of the many ways in which a lack of mobility affects people's lives.

Die Schlagzeilen des Jahres 2010 machten den Zustand der Deutschen Bahn AG drastisch sichtbar: Zusammenbruch des S-Bahnverkehrs in Berlin, Konstruktionsmängel in mehreren Fahrzeugbaureihen, hunderte Zugausfälle in Sommer und Winter.

Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities.

Addresses the Challenges Facing Public Transport Policy Makers and OperatorsPublic Transit Planning and Operation: Modeling, Practice and Behavior, Second Edition offers new solutions for delivering both better services and greater efficiency, solutions which have been developed and tested by the author in over thirty years of research work with mass transit policy makers and operators all over the world.

Smart Cities and Digital Transformation offers a three-tiered approach to tomorrow's cities in terms of limitless innovation, sustainable development and empowering communities.

As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy in energy use, high in economic and environmental cost, and exacerbating inequity between those who can access high-speed travel and those who cannot.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

Transport issues are critically embedded in everyday life.

Provides a rigorous analysis of sustainable development that includes practical, policy-relevant, global case studies, explained concisely and clearly.

This book will explore a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world.

This is the first book to comprehensively cover the evolution of airport design, from the start of commercial aviation in 1919 to the present day.

Originally published in 1987, this title reviews and evaluates the methodologies suitable for highway evaluation, along with the UK transport supplementary grant and TPP (Transport Policies and Programme) system.

During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers.

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals.

Traffic crashes are one of the ten leading causes of deaths worldwide, and the leading cause of death for young people in the western world - a seemingly necessary evil that accompanies increasing levels of motorization.

Originally published in 1982, this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting.

The essays in this book, first published in 1988, explore the changes that have occurred in the modern harbour in the 1970s and 1980s and the many roles of the public port in stimulating or responding to these changes.

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed.

Better Public Transit Systems is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation.

Better Public Transit Systems is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation.

A comprehensive and objective guide to understanding hydrogen as a transportation fuel for policy makers, industrial stakeholders and researchers.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities.

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles.

Collecting fares through "e;smart cards"e; is becoming standard in most advanced public transport networks of major cities around the world.