1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation

Edited By Dusan Teodorovic Copyright 2016
    484 Pages
    by Routledge

    484 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research. It provides a step-by-step introduction to research related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and performance measurement and evaluation of transportation alternatives.

    The Handbook of Transportation demonstrates models and methods for predicting travel and freight demand, planning future transportation networks, and developing traffic control systems. Readers will learn how to use various engineering concepts and approaches to make future transportation safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.

    Edited by Dusan Teodorovic and featuring 29 chapters from more than 50 leading global experts, with more than 200 illustrations, the Routledge Handbook of Transportation is designed as an invaluable resource for professionals and students in transportation planning and engineering.

    1. Introduction - Dušan Teodorović 2. Traffic Flow Theory - Hesham Rakha 3. Traffic Network Modeling - Srinivas Peeta, Henry Liu and Xiaozheng He 4. Freeway Traffic Control - John Hourdos 5. Road Traffic Control - Montasir Abbas 6. Evolution of Intelligent Transportation Systems - Praveen Edara, and Jalil Kianfar 7. Autonomous Intersection Management for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles - Tsz-Chiu Au, Shun Zhang, and Peter Stone 8. Behavioral Approaches for Combatting Aggresive Driving - David L. Wiesenthal, James E. W. Roseborough, and Christine M. Wickens 9. Pedestrian Transportation - Christopher M. Monsere, Nick Foster, Todd Borkowitz, Sirisha Kothuri, Matt Downey, and Robert Bertini 10. Bicycle Transportation - Christopher M. Monsere, Nick Foster, Todd Borkowitz, Sirisha Kothuri, Matt Downey, and Robert Bertini 11. Traffic Crash Analysis and Prevention - Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson 12. Travel Behavior in Response to Network Disruptions - Praveen Edara, and Timothy C. Matisziw 13. Transportation Planning - Matthew Karlaftis† , Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou, Grigorios Fountas 14. Transportation and Land Use - Giovanni Circella‚ and Francesca Pagliara 15. Public Transportation Systems - Partha Chakroborty, and Vinod Vasudevan 16. Vehicle Routing and Scheduling - Xingyin Wang, Maria Battarra, and Bruce Golden 17. Airport Planning and Design - Alexandre G. de Barros 18. The ATC (Air Traffic Control) System - Milan Janić 19. Railway Planning and Operations - Nigel Harris 20. Inland Waterway Transportation - Paul Schonfeld 21. Maritime Transportation - Harilaos N. Psaraftis 22. Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Riccardo Manzini, Riccardo Accorsi, Mauro Gamberi, Matteo Mario Savino, and Alberto Regattieri 23. City Logistics - Eiichi Taniguchi 24. Transportation, Energy and the Environment - Konstantina Gkritza 25. Transportation Economics - Kara M. Kockelman, and T. Donna Chen 26. Queueing in Transportation Systems - Dušan Teodorović and Ranko Nedeljković 27. Location Analysis in Transportation - Dušan Teodorović, Branka Dimitrijević, and Milica Šelmić 28. Performance Measurements for Transportation Systems - Konstantinos Triantis 29. GIS and Transportation - Alan T. Murray

    Biography

    Dušan Teodorovi? is Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Professor Emeritus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. Dr. Teodorovi? received a Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Belgrade and has worldwide academic experience. His primary research interests are in operations research and computational intelligence applications in transportation engineering. Dr. Teodorovi? has been elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.