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Transportation Decision Making
Wiley 2011; US$ 150.00This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decision making in transportation project development and programming, which can help transportation professionals to optimize their investment choices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies for evaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs and impacts are taken into... more...
Transforming Urban Transport
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 74.95Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of... more...
Human-Computer Interactions in Transport
Wiley 2013; US$ 147.00The human-computer interactions are more and more present in our everyday life, and lead to many conceptual and methodological problems for the designers and evaluators of interactive systems. This book is about Human-Computer Interaction in Transport domain, in which the traveler becomes a user of information systems, particularly before and during... more...
Geographical Information and Urban Transport Systems
Wiley 2013; US$ 127.00Urban transport systems need to be analyzed from various perspectives: the offer on one hand, the demand on the other hand, but also their negative externalities (risks of transport systems). These three dimensions are rarely apprehended in an integrated perspective. This book provides a large collection of chapters dealing with these specific dimensions,... more...
Bioevaluation of World Transport Networks
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 153.00Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a monstrous single cell well known for its task-solving abilities solves computational geometry and logical problems, navigates robots and generates music.The slime mould could also build motorways, highways and expressways. It is used to analyse transport networks of Africa, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,... more...
Intermodal Freight Transport
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 99.95This book provides an introduction to the whole concept of intermodal freight transport, the means of delivering goods using two or more transport modes, recounting both European experience and UK developments and reporting on the extensive political influences on this form of transport. This is placed into context with reference to developments in... more...
Economic Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 240.00There 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 advanced transportation and related technologies are being planned... more...
Optimization in Public Transportation
Springer 2007; US$ 79.99Develops models, results and algorithms for optimizing public transportation from a customer-oriented point of view. This book uses methods that are based on graph-theoretic approaches and integer programming. It deals with the design of zone tariff systems, in which the fare is determined by the number of zones used by the passengers. more...
ITF Round Tables Privatisation and Regulation of Urban Transit Systems
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 70.00Urban public transport services generally run at a large deficit. This has led public authorities to seek efficiencies, notably through private sector involvement. Support for the sector traditionally seeks to provide basic mobility services to all segments of society, including low-income users. Intervention is also required to manage the natural... more...
Achieving Sustainable Mobility
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 124.95There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, but are any of these policies really successful? Using an interdisciplinary approach which brings together various theories and methodologies, this book tests each of these policies or hypotheses, as the author sees them with detailed empirical investigations.... more...









