Overview of Transportation Planning: Principles, Practices and Policies Book

Transportation planning helps in achieving a safer, faster, comfortable, convenient, economical and environment-friendly movement of people and goods traffic. This text deals with the basic principles and fundamentals of transportation planning, and keeps abreast of the current practices and policies in transportation planning. Divided into 23 chapters, the book explores the fundamental techniques of transportation planning and travel demand modelling, urban form and urban structure and their relationship to transport pattern, land use-transport model, accessibility and mobility consideration in transport modelling, graph theory and road network planning, cost benefit analysis, mass transport planning, applications of intelligent transport system, applications of software in transport planning, and transport policies. This text will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering and transportation engineering. Highlights: * Systematically organised concepts well-supported with ample illustrations* Illustrative figures and tables* Incorporates chapter-end summaries to help in grasping concepts* Presents state-of-the-art data* Includes chapter-end review questions to help students prepare for examinations

• Book Type :

Engineering

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

480 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

8120349946

• Transportation Planning: Principles, Practices and Policies Published On :

14 Nov 2014

• Resource:

Students and Professionals:Textbooks, Engineering

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