The two-volume Handbook of Transportation Engineering, Second Edition offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the entire transportation engineering field. Featuring 18 new chapters and contributions from nearly 70 leading experts, this authoritative work discusses all types of transportation systems--freight, passenger, air, rail, road, marine, and pipeline--and provides problem-solving engineering, planning, and design tools and techniques with examples of successful applications. Volume I focuses on transportation networks and systems, operations, and economics.
Volume I
Contributors
Preface
Vision Statement
Part I : Networks and Systems
Chapter 1 : National Transportation Networks and Inter-Modal Systems
Chapter 2 : Transportation Network Planning : Theoretical Notions
Chapter 3 : Reliability of Travel Times and Robustness of Transport Networks
Chapter 4 : Transportation Systems Modeling and Evaluation
Chapter 5 : Software Systems and Simulation for Transportation Applications
Chapter 6 : Applications of GIS in Transportation
Chapter 7 : Travel Demand Forecasting for Urban Transportation Planning
Chapter 8 : Transportation and Land Use
Chapter 9 : Sustainable Transportation
Part II : Operations and Economics
Chapter 10 : Transportation Planning and Modeling
Chapter 11 : Transportation Economics
Chapter 12 : Innovative Information Technology Applications in Public Transportation
Chapter 13 : Parking Management
Chapter 14 : Trucking Operations
Chapter 15 : The Economics of Railroad Operations : Resurgence of a Declining Industry
Chapter 16 : Airline Management and Operations
Chapter 17 : The Marine Transportation System
Chapter 18 : Global Logistics and the Maritime Transport System
Chapter 19 : Freight Transportation Planning
Chapter 20 : Management of Transportation Organizations
Index
