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Transportation engineering and transportation planning are two sides of the same coin aiming at the design of an efficient infrastructure and service to meet the growing needs for accessibility and mobility. Many well-designed transport systems that meet these needs are based on a solid understanding of human behavior. Since transportation systems are the backbone connecting the vital parts of a city, in-depth understanding of human nature is essential to the planning, design, and operational analysis of transportation systems.
With contributions by transportation experts from around the world, Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications compiles engineering data and methods for solving problems in the planning, design, construction, and operation of various transportation modes into one source. It is the first methodological transportation planning reference that illustrates analytical simulation methods that depict human behavior in a realistic way, and many of its chapters emphasize newly developed and previously unpublished simulation methods. The handbook demonstrates how urban and regional planning, geography, demography, economics, sociology, ecology, psychology, business, operations management, and engineering come together to help us plan for better futures that are human-centered.
The text reviews projects from an initial problem statement to final policy action and associated decision-making and examines policies at all levels of government, from the city to the national levels. Unlike many other handbooks which are encyclopedic reviews, Transportation Systems Planning extends far beyond modeling in engineering and economics to present a truly transdisciplinary approach to transportation systems planning.
Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on
the biological, motivational, cognitive, situational, and
dispositional factors that drive activity-travel behavior.
Organized into three sections, Retrospective and Prospective Survey
of Travel Behavior Research, New Research Methods and Findings, and
Future Research, the chapters of this book provide evidence of
progress made in the most recent years in four dimensions of the
travel behavior genome. These dimensions are Substantive Problems,
Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks, Behavioral Measurement, and
Behavioral Analysis. Including the movement of goods as well as the
movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms,
attitudes, perceptions, emotions, feelings, and constraints lead to
observed behavior; how to design efficient infrastructure and
services to meet tomorrow's needs for accessibility and mobility;
how to assess equity and distributional justice; and how to assess
and implement policies for improving sustainability and quality of
life. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm
shift toward more dynamic, user-centric, demand-responsive
transport services, including the "sharing economy," mobility as a
service, automation, and robotics. This volume provides research
directions to answer behavioral questions emerging from these
upheavals.
Civil Engineering and Urban Planning III addresses civil
engineering and urban planning issues associated with
transportation and the environment. The contributions not only
highlight current practices in these areas, but also pay attention
to future research and applications, and provide an overview of the
progress made in a wide variety of topics in the areas of: - Civil
Engineering - Architecture and Urban Planning - Transportation
Engineering Including a wealth of information, Civil Engineering
and Urban Planning III is of interest to academics and students in
civil engineering and urban planning.
The book will offer a representative sample of the best papers
presented at the Transport Science and Technology Congress
(TRANSTEC) Athens 2004. It will also serve as the peer reviewed
conference proceedings.
As in the congress writing this book our aim is to demonstrate the
most recent developments in merging scientific and technological
discoveries to solve important transportation problems and to cover
a wide variety of transportation issues in passenger and freight
transportation but also a variety of modes. A parallel aim is to
have papers that are representative of the research and development
around the world. The chapters will be from the Americas (North and
South), Asia, and Europe.
The draft outline is organized into four parts. The first part will
contain an overview and review papers from the keynote speakers and
most likely one additional paper in the new area of human attention
and microsleeps from a special paper session organized the Czech
Technical University.
The second part of the book will contain contributions from policy
and planning and will span all modes of transportation and include
both passenger transport and freight.
In the third part a selection of papers from traffic engineering
and management will contain papers on new measurement techniques,
traffic engineering parameters that can be measured more precisely
with technology, and applications of information and communication
technologies.
The fourth part of the book will contain a series of papers
illustrating the preparation of Athens for the Olympics and will
contain papers that span from the preliminary planning to the
operations of information and communication systems as well asthe
management of the public transportation system and its components.
All papers will be peer-reviewed following the guidelines of the
journal Transportation Research to assure innovation in methods but
also relevance to the subject matter.
*Demonstrates the most recent developments in solving
transportation problems
*Adopts a global perspective with papers from the Americas, Asia
and Europe
*Organized into four parts; all articles are peer-reviewed
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