Introduction to Transportation Engineering

Ideas and Concepts
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-4665-6587-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Transportation is best considered as a socio-technical system. Insights into transportation engineering best start from this perspective, and the different forms should be viewed in a homogenous way as parts of the general transport system.

Introduction to Transportation Engineering shows how the modes are complementary to each other, and how to design and operate them, and gives some thoughts on integration. It introduces generic and universally applicable concepts, and the principles of planning and design, along with experience from local applications to enable students to solve small and medium planning problems. The book also covers system development and serves as a starting point for deeper and detailed work, while keeping an overall view and emphasising the general context. It sets transportation engineering in the context of transport history to give students a sense of its long-term development and its social, economic and technical context.

The authors bring varied and fully international experience, and present a balanced and comprehensive overview of design philosophies and approaches. This student text is not only broad and concise, but also thorough and well grounded.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weidmann, Ulrich Alois

Axhausen, Kay

Menendez, Monica

Orth, Hermann

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Introduction. Preface. Brief History of Transport Systems. Transportation, Society, Economics and the Environment. II Transportation Planning. Accessibility and Productivity. Transport and Land Use: The Basic Models. User Behaviour. Principles of Network design. Decision Making: Consistent Approaches. Decision Making: A Messy Reality. III Private Transportation. Introduction to Private Transportation Systems. Fundamentals of Traffic Flow. Introduction to Queuing Theory: Application to Transportation Problems. Traffic Parameters and Their Measurement. Capacity and Level of Service Analysis. Traffic Management and Control. Infrastructure for Private Transportation Systems. Evaluation of Private Transportation Systems. V Public Transportation. Public Transport Systems. Planning of Public Transport Services. Planning of Rail Freight Systems, Intermodality. Resource Planning. Vehicles in Public Transport. Railway Infrastructure. Capacity and Operation of Rail Systems. Regulation, Organisation, Marketing. Walking, Cycling, Intermodality. Introduction to Walking, Cycling and Intermodality. Walking. Cycling. Intermodality. Outlook. Sustainability. Urban Development. Technical Prospects. Future Policies. Perspectives of Future Transportation – a Short Summary.

Über Autor(innen)

Kay W. Axhausen is Professor of Transport Planning; Monica Menendez is Director of the Traffic Engineering Research Group; Hermann Orth is a researcher; Ulrich Weidmann is former head of Railway System Engineering at Swiss Federal Railways, and is Professor of Transport Systems and Vice President. All are at ETH-Zurich.