Transportation Engineering

High Speed Rail in the US..

Highway Meteorology..

More and more the most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT’s advances and pervasiveness, and the new de..

This practical textbook on the operations of intermodal transport and logistics focuses on the practical concerns and the basics of operations, such as vehicles, containers, handling operations, logistics management and optimisation, with some additional chapters on economics and the environment to ..

Addressing issues of both efficiency and traffic safety, Optimal Traffic Control examines the traffic control optimization problem in detail and formulates a novel solution method. Through an approach based on control theory, graph theory, and combinatorial optimization, the authors derive a full ma..

Focusing on the conceptual and preliminary stages in bridge design, this book addresses the new conceptual criteria employed when evaluating project proposals, considering elements from architectural aspects and structural aesthetics to environmental compatibility.;College or university bookstores m..

Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory..

This book details an integrated quantitative risk assessment methodology to help readers systematically analyze various alternatives for protecting underground rail, oil and gas pipelines, pipeline freight transportation, and other tunnel systems from terrorism threats and other disasters. It analyz..

The Manchester Benchmarks for Rail Vehicle Simulation..

This book provides an overview of calibration and validation techniques for traffic simulation models. It details the data required as an input for the calibration and validation processes and shows how to increase its applicability using data enhancement techniques. It presents an extensive overvie..

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 a single source. It is th..