Highway & Traffic

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780115531453Author Great Britain: Department for TransportPage Count 105Imprint TSOPublisher TSO

Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time, efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel,...

In most organizations, errors - although common and unavoidable - are rarely mentioned bottom-up. Using this example of the high risk aviation industry this book assess how active error management can work and lead to success. Using academic research and...

As the case for Climate Change mitigation becomes ever more pressing, hydrogen has the potential to play a major role in a low-carbon energy future. Hydrogen can drive the vehicles of tomorrow and also heat homes and supply energy to businesses. Much...

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world...

This book discusses the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, which was born in Japan in 1964 and how it has developed up to the present day. In the 1950s, some European railways were trying to increase the commercial operating speed up to...

The repair, renovation and replacement of highway infrastructure, along with the provision of new highways, is a core element of civil engineering, so this book covers basic theory and practice in sufficient depth to provide a solid grounding to students...

Roadwork: Theory and Practice, now in its sixth edition, gives the essential information needed by every road worker, highway technician, incorporated, graduate or chartered engineer, not only by explaining the theory of road construction and its...

The safety case (SC) is one of the railway industry's most important deliverables for creating confidence in their systems. This is the first book on how to write an SC, based on the standard EN 50129:2003. Experience has shown that preparing and...

MODELLING TRANSPORT Comprehensive Textbook Resource for Understanding Transport Modelling Modelling Transport provides unrivalled depth and breadth of coverage on the topic of transport modelling. Each topic is approached as a modelling exercise with...

Highways is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering and the new edition will cover the latest developments in the field, building on the fourth edition which is still viewed as the leading title in highway engineering, despite now...

This book discusses the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, which was born in Japan in 1964 and how it has developed up to the present day. In the 1950s, some European railways were trying to increase the commercial operating speed up to...

This book follows the thread of transportation development along a continuous timeline of historical dynasties, with a primary focus on presenting the factual accounts of transportation development, key events, and their evolving characteristics. It...

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 19th “Transport Systems. Theory and Practice” Scientific and Technical Conference organised by the Department of Transport Systems, Traffic Engineering and Logistics at the Faculty of Transport and...

Introduction to Modern Infrastructure Construction serves as a pivotal resource in construction management education, focusing primarily on heavy civil construction and the newest technological innovations in this field. An essential textbook and tool...

Introduction to Modern Infrastructure Construction serves as a pivotal resource in construction management education, focusing primarily on heavy civil construction and the newest technological innovations in this field. An essential textbook and tool...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639875375Author Dominic BradyFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631171604Author Antoine BrickerFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 334g

In "Creating Green Roads", James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don't have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minimally impact the environment while improving quality of life. The authors examine traditional, utilitarian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626188297Author Yoan BergeronFormat HardbackPage Count 115Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 294g

Roadwork: Theory and Practice, now in its sixth edition, gives the essential information needed by every road worker, highway technician, incorporated, graduate or chartered engineer, not only by explaining the theory of road construction and its...

Inspired from the legacy of the previous four 3DFEM conferences held in Delft and Athens as well as the successful 2018 AM3P conference held in Doha, the 2020 AM3P conference continues the pavement mechanics theme including pavement models, experimental...

Functional Pavements is a collection of papers presented at the 6th Chinese-European Workshop (CEW) on Functional Pavement Design (Nanjing, China, October 18-21, 2020). The focus of the CEW series is on field tests, laboratory test methods and advanced...

Rural Road Engineering in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive coverage of the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of rural roads in developing countries and emerging nations. It covers a wide range of technical and non-technical...

R. P. Bradley's look at the design and performance of London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) 4-6-0s locomotives containing useful tables, diagrams and photographs.Book InformationISBN 9780715388952Author R.P. BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint...

Deterioration and Maintenance of Pavements, Second Edition is a hands-on guide to the practicalities of pavement engineering. Now updated in this second edition and with additional information on principles of pavement design, this book covers the...

Stress Ribbon and Cable-supported Pedestrian Bridges provides a definitive practical guide to the skills, knowledge and understanding required by the practising engineer. 'Stress ribbon bridges' is the term used to describe structures formed by a very...

Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355280374Author Arthur H BlanchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 782Imprint Maxwell PressPublisher Maxwell PressWeight(grams) 1025g

This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies...

This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917579032Author Lande JewelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint LANDE JewelsPublisher LANDE JewelsWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838808020Author Stefano de LucaFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpenWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838809225Author Hamid YaghoubiFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989185733Author Jacob PetroFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Pe Essential GuidesPublisher Pe Essential GuidesWeight(grams) 494g

R. P. Bradley's look at the design and performance of London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) 4-6-0s locomotives containing useful tables, diagrams and photographs.Book InformationISBN 9781446305829Author R.P. BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789847680Author Haitao ZhangFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535136699Author Hamid YaghoubiFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint IntechopenPublisher IntechopenWeight(grams) 386g

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 one in ten may be permanently disabled. How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648189800Author Alexa DelboscFormat HardbackPage Count 994Imprint Monash UniversityPublisher Monash UniversityWeight(grams) 2186g