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Transportation engineering

  • Achieving Sustainable Mobilityby Erling Holden

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 124.95

    There 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...

  • Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineeringby Slim Hammadi; Mekki Ksouri

    Wiley 2013; US$ 125.00

    Multimodal transport network customers need to be directed during their travels. A travel support tool can be offered by a Multimodal Information System (MIS), which allows them to input their needs and provides them with the appropriate responses to improve their travel conditions. The goal of this book is to design and develop methodologies in order... more...

  • Applications of Agent Technology in Traffic and Transportationby Franziska Klügl; Ana Bazzan; Sascha Ossowski

    Springer 2006; US$ 54.99

    Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of the big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. There is an increasing need to understand, model, and govern such systems at both the individual (micro) and the society (macro) level. Still, this raises significant technical problems, as transportation systems may contain thousands... more...

  • Benchmarking Intermodal Freight Transportby OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 58.00

    What is efficient intermodal freight transport? How are "best practices" to be found? What measures are being developed in OECD countries for assessing the relative efficiency of modes and modal combinations? What opportunities exist to improve complex intermodal transport chains? How are such opportunities identified and assessed?. Today’s... more...

  • Bioevaluation of World Transport Networksby Andrew Adamatzky

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 153.00

    Slime 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...

  • The Boxby Marc Levinson

    Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 18.95

    In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the... more...

  • Container Terminals and Automated Transport Systemsby Hans-Otto Günther; Kap Hwan Kim

    Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 149.99

    This book reflects recent developments in the automation of container terminals and transportation systems, the highly sophisticated control strategies needed to meet desired performance measures, and presents new insights & successful solutions to operational problems. Includes quantitative methods, case studies, simulation systems. more...

  • Economic Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systemsby E Bekiaris; Y J Nakanishi

    Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 240.00

    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 advanced transportation and related technologies are being planned... more...

  • Electronic Road User Charging and Tollingby Andrew Pickford

    Artech House 2006; US$ 139.00

    As highways, crossing points, and urban streets become increasingly jammed with traffic, more and more roadway authorities are turning to electronic tolling and pricing to manage traffic and road usage. This authoritative book offers professionals expert guidance in planning, procuring, and operating electronic tolling and road-user charging systems.... more...

  • Geographical Information and Urban Transport Systemsby Arnaud Banos; Thé; Thomas venin

    Wiley 2013; US$ 127.00

    Urban 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...