Author: John Ugoani Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The concept of national development especially in developing countries like Nigeria envisages improvements in critical infrastructure, including expansion in transportation, industrial base, and the provision of employment opportunities in the polity. Transportation lies at the foundational levels of connectivity without which the economy of any nation will almost remain at a standstill. The imperial masters as early as 1896 and 1905 constructed the railway system and the Lagos Port respectively as fundamental measures of connectivity and national development. Effective transportation network ensures that goods and services are easily moved to desired destinations. It is also the means by which parents move their children to and from schools, go to receive healthcare, go to markets and attend to all other personal and business engagements. Transportation guarantees that people are able to go to work; either by road, rail, water, or air. This is probably one reason for a boom in the construction of highways or expressways, the flyovers, bridges, road networks, railways, seaports and airports in Nigeria. As the result of geographical differences in the environments, different countries adopt different methods of transportation network management to suit them. For example, in Bangladesh, the transportation management strategy focuses on rural growth centres. The growth centres are selected on the basis of their socioeconomic importance and potential. This provides the justification for the reconstruction and upgrading of the growth centres and markets. In Brazil, the transportation network management system involves the paving of bus routes among others. Nigeria has different agencies and associations, for her road, rail, sea, and air transportation, in addition to robust PPPs. The investigation literature review research design was adopted for this study and the result showed positive association between transportation network management and connectivity necessary for national development. The study was not exhaustive because of acute lack of current relevant literature. Further study should therefore, examine the relationship between underdevelopment and transportation network management in Nigeria. The study recommends that government should take immediate steps to ressurate Air Nigeria to enhance the scope of air transportation in Nigeria.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 68
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This progress report describes the development of the NTS initiative and proposed future activities to bring the NTS to its full potential. A set of preliminary national transportation performance indicators is proposed. These performance indicators should be seen as the beginning of a process rather than as the definitive set of national transportation system indicators. A second part of the NTS analytical process involves the development and application of a national transportation network analysis capability (NTNAC) that will provide the ability to evaluate the national network in a multi- modal manner. Using the NTNAC, problems with the Nation's transportation system can be identified and policy options to address these problems evaluated. The report concludes with a discussion of the use of the NTS within the Department. It is proposed that the results of the analyses carried out using the national transportation performance measures and the NTNAC in the assessment of the Nation's transportation system, the identification of issues, and the analysis of options be presented in biennial State of the National Transportation System reports.
Author: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development Publisher: ISBN: Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 60
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The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Technology, Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development (R & D), has created a National Transportation Science and Technology Strategy that builds on the earlier strategy published in 1997. Like its predecessor, the National Strategy is intended to help Congress and the Administration establish national transportation R & D priorities and coordinated research activities. The National Strategy articulates goals for transportation system safety, mobility and access, economic growth, the environment and national security. It proposes the broader involvement of state, local and tribal agencies; academic institutions; and private industry in national transportation R & D strategic planning and system assessment, private-public technology partnerships, enabling research and transportation education and training.
Author: Kenneth Button Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 085793063X Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 223
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Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuelefficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines such as traffic management and supply chain logistics. The contributions to this volume assess transportation interactions with employment and income, examine some of the policies that have been deployed to maximize the economic and social impacts of transportation provision at the local and regional levels and analyze how advances in transportation technologies have, and will, impact future development. Due in part to the general liberalization of markets, there have been major changes in the institutional environment in which transportation is supplied; these changes inevitably affect wider economic systems and development, although in turn these changes feed back upon transportation networks. The contributors to this work develop these and other themes, from a variety of perspectives, implementing a wide range of academic approaches into their analyses. Stemming from initiatives of the Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR), Transportation and Economic Development Challenges presents a body of research that exemplifies the organization's objective of fostering research collaboration around the world.
Author: Hongchang Li Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 981168197X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 155
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This book focuses on the analysis of transportation economics development with spatiotemporal characteristics in both theory and practice. The comprehensive and general theory development, practical transportation events and policy implications are addressed. The book pursues three main objectives: firstly, to structurally describe the overall spatiotemporal transportation theory development; secondly, to break down transportation elements and transportation modes into railway, highway, water, civil aviation, pipeline and urban transportation for the purposes of in-depth professional analysis; and thirdly, to summarize transportation trends including car-hailing, shared bicycles, etc., in China to reveal their policy implications.
Author: I.M. Schoeman Publisher: WIT Press ISBN: 178466233X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 193
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For many years the integration of the location of land use and activities in spatial systems, as well as the provision of transport in movement of goods, services and people, has been recognized as a challenge amongst various specialists, including: engineers, transportation planners, economists, environmentalists, urban and regional planners and developers. The purpose of this book is to address transportation modelling in terms of technology, techniques and methodology application in context to the interface between transportation systems, land use planning, and environmental challenges and application. The methodology of transportation modelling is applied to international practices and application based on specific case studies, inclusive of public transportation projects; transportation modelling techniques in practice; international research agenda; network design and channel strategies; strategic planning; application of technology in traffic surveys and interpretation; emissions from transportation systems; application of mathematical models and the interface between environment, land use and development in terms of location in space and the resulting activities. Of value to both theorists and practitioners, this book references the integration of transportation modelling techniques within an interdisciplinary environment inside all spatial systems.
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs Publisher: Transportation Research Board ISBN: 9780309051569 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 180
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TRB Special Report 234 - Data for Decisions: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making examines data requirements necessary to support strategic transportation policy making and the institutional changes necessary to make those data available on a permanent basis. The report calls for the establishment of a statistical agency within USDOT (this recommendation became helped create the Bureau of Transportation Statistics), the development of performance indicators, and regular reporting to the Secretary and Congress on important trends in system performance.
Author: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development Publisher: ISBN: Category : Technology and state Languages : en Pages : 112
Author: United States. National Science and Technology Council. Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development Publisher: ISBN: Category : Technology and state Languages : en Pages : 104
Author: Edward Weiner Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313002231 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past 50 years illustrates the changing relationship between federal, state, and local governments. This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to the concern for sustainable development and pollution emissions. Focusing on major national events, the book discusses the influence of legislation, regulations, conferences, federal programs, and advances in planning procedures and technology. The book offers an in-depth look at the most significant event in transportation planning—the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962. Creating a federal mandate for a comprehensive urban transportation planning process carried out cooperatively by states and local governments with federal funding, this act was crucial in the spread of urban transporation. Claiming that urban transportation planning is more sophisticated, costly, and complex than its highway and transit planning predecessors, the book demonstrates how urban transportation planning evolved in response to changes in such factors as environment, energy, development patterns, intergovernmental coordination, and federal transit programs. It further illustrates how broader concerns for global climate change and sustainable development have braided the purview of transportation planning.
Author: John Ugoani
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Author: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development
Author: Kenneth Button
Author: Hongchang Li
Author: I.M. Schoeman
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs
Author: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development
Author: United States. National Science and Technology Council. Subcommittee on Transportation Research and Development
Author: Edward Weiner