Transportation

The traveling public has no patience for prolonged, high cost construction projects. This puts highway construction contractors under intense pressure to minimize traffic disruptions and construction cost. Actively promoted by the Federal Highway...

Freight Transport Modelling is a unique new reference book that provides insight into the state-of-the-art of freight modelling. Focusing on models used to support public transport policy analysis, Freight Transport Modelling systematically introduces...

Statistical Techniques for Transportation Engineering is written with a systematic approach in mind and covers a full range of data analysis topics, from the introductory level (basic probability, measures of dispersion, random variable, discrete and...

About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120320840Author Partha ChakrobortyFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint PHI LearningPublisher PHI Learning

A small federal agency, NMB facilitates labour relations in two key transportation sectors -- railroads and airlines -- through mediation and arbitration of labour disputes and overseeing union elections. Established under the Railway Labor Act, NMB's...

Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems Part II: Equations and Examples goes beyond theory and mathematical models to give readers a practical understanding of dynamic and stochastic assignment modeling approaches in transportation systems...

America is stuck: just look at the crumbling roads and bridges, mismanaged railways, old-fashioned and easily overloaded air traffic control system, and perpetual lack of political will to do anything about it all. In contrast, take a trip around the...

Highway Planning, Survey, and Design presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate alternatives of transportation systems and roadway...

Traffic and Pavement Engineering presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate traffic systems, road pavement structures, and alternative...

Many urban and transportation problems, such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents and environmental burdens, result from poor integration of land use and transportation. This graduate-level textbook outlines strategies for sustainably integrating...

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably...

The book comprehensively discusses concepts of artificial intelligence in green transportation systems. It further covers intelligent techniques for precise modeling of complex transportation infrastructure, forecasting and predicting traffic congestion,...

Framework for the analysis and design of connected vehicle systems, featuring numerous simulations, experimental studies, and problem-solving approaches Connected Vehicular Systems synthesizes the research advances of the past decade to provide readers...

The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in Europe. Airport Competition reviews the current state of...

Although computer technology has dramatically improved the analysis of complex transport phenomena, the methodology has yet to be effectively integrated into engineering curricula. The huge volume of literature associated with the wide variety of...

Report on the rapid development of railway engineering construction in China, this book introduces the basic concepts of railway engineering supported by reference to cases. This book underpins the experiences and technologies of the Chinese engineering...

World population growth and economic prosperity have given rise to ever-increasing demands on cities, transportation planning, and goods movement. This growth, coupled with a slower pace of transportation capacity expansion and deteriorated facility...

Super-Speed Rail (SSR) system is the fifth mode of transportation after ships, trains, automobiles and aircrafts, featuring characteristics of ultra-high-speed (1000-2000 km/h), high safety, low energy consumption, low noise, no vibration, no pollution...

- Covers a broad spectrum of transportation applications and problems. - Presents extensive coverage of existing and forthcoming explainable methods in transportation. - Acts as a single reference providing readers with a comprehensive background,...

• Presents the latest organizational and policy developments in federal transportation security laws, regulations, and requirements • Discusses various sectors within transportation including transit, port, maritime, aviation, rail, highway, and a new...

Emphasizing a sustainable and green approach, this new book presents an overview of state-of-the-art AI strategies for solving transportation challenges around the world, with a focus on traffic management, traffic safety, public transportation, urban...

Provides an overview of the working principles of electrical powertrain and automated systems.Considers environmental and road safety aspects for transportation.Discusses the developments of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and driverless car...

Approachable guide combining project management principles and proven best practices applied to transportation projects Transportation Project Management is a comprehensive and approachable work providing practical guidance on all aspects of managing...

Increasingly, segments of the civil infrastructure are considered to be parts of larger systems, which requires a systems approach for a fuller and proper understanding and solutions of problems. Unfortunately, the subject of a system or a systems...

Traffic and Pavement Engineering presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate traffic systems, road pavement structures, and alternative...

World population growth and economic prosperity have given rise to ever-increasing demands on cities, transportation planning, and goods movement. This growth, coupled with a slower pace of transportation capacity expansion and deteriorated facility...

Nowadays, demands on modern civil engineering structures require not only safe technical solutions, but also additional approaches, involving ecological, sociological and economical aspects. This book reacts on these new requirements with a focus on...

Hospital Service Areas are the foundation for healthcare evaluation. This book represents the state-of-the-art approach in delineating HSA using GIS automated processes. It provides the best practices and solutions for defining HSA in scientific and...

This book discusses the recent advanced technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), with a view on how Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperate with future vehicles.ITS technologies aim to achieve traffic efficiency and advance...

EV are part of the solution to both reducing urban air pollution as well as staving off climate change. This is related to appropriate integration with the grid, load and outage management, as well as to mitigation of loads using renewable energy and...

The Ninth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, held in the Netherlands in July 1984, follows the tradition of broad international information exchange that was developed at the eight previous symposia. Over the years the scope of...

Containerization provides optimization of handling processes in terms of intermodality and efficient cargo handling, and maritime transport, in particular, it provides further optimization of shipping processes in terms of volume and distance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195400928Author Srinivasa, R KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

This book is designed as a popular science book on Big Data Analytics in Intelligent Transportation Systems. It aims to provide an introduction to big-data transportation. Starting from an overview on the development of big data Transportation in various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641723961Author Amanda WangFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams) 767g

Growth in urbanisation, particularly in emerging economies, is causing increased traffic congestion and affecting environmental conditions in cities. Cities need to manage this growth in traffic in an efficient way. Intelligent infrastructure for traffic...

Since the very earliest years of aviation, it was clear that human factors were critical to the success and safety of the system. As aviation has matured, the system has become extremely complex. Bringing together the most recent human factors work in...

This book stems from a series of biennial conferences devoted to issues affecting air-transport provision in remoter regions that have been organized by the Centre for Air Transport in Remoter Regions at Cranfield University. The primary aim of the...

Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport identifies and analyses the primary issues facing the modern international airport, and their role in a global economy. Based on the premise that the aviation industry has a primary and decisive...