Author: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality). Department of Planning and DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages :
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Transportation Systems Analysis: Evaluation of Alternatives, Recommendations and Staging
Author: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality). Department of Planning and DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages :
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Systems Analysis in Transportation Planning
Author: Joseph L. SchoferPublisher:
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Category : System analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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.
Strategies for the Evaluation of Alternative Transportation Plans: Final report
Author: Alternative Transportation Modes Feasibility Study
Author: Publisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An Interim Report
Author: Cleveland-Seven County Transportation-Land Use StudyPublisher:
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Category : Cleveland Metropolitan Area (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Transportation Systems Evaluation
Author: Peter R. StopherPublisher: Free Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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