Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Transit Productivity and Coordination Evaluation
Author: Overall Work Program for the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Public Transit Research
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Urban Transportation Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Regional Transportation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: California. Metropolitan Transportation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Transportation Decision Making
Author: Kumares C. SinhaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118169662
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977: Justifications
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1977
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
Transportation Research Record
Author: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1981
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Transportation and Related Agencies AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description