One of the latest efforts aimed at revolutionizing the pavement design and analysis procedures is the National Cooperative for Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 1-37A (Development of the 2002 Guide for the Design of New and Rehabilitated Pavement Structures). One signific…
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The need to evacuate some cities is always there, due to natural disasters, war, or hazard materials or gases presence, and the privilege of hosting a special event is sought by almost every city in the world. During all this, the roads and all the accessible routes will be high…
This thesis examines traffic congestion in twentieth-century London. Ideas about movement, mobility and circulation in the capital's streets intersect with a broad range of discourses and practices, from planning to policing, and from engineering to economics. Within these disco…
Average annual daily traffic (AADT) is important in transportation engineering and planning, and although the State of Louisiana collects AADT on a regular basis on state-maintained highways, most parishes and smaller municipalities do not have the resources to collect AADT freq…
This thesis looked at traffic crashes in the emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to establish the current situation in road safety and ways of improving it. A global overview of road safety literature revealed that standards of road safety vary widely by region. K…
This dissertation is an ethnography of transnationalism in recent working-class migration from Pakistan. Using multi-sited research, I track the state-subject relationship present in the process of transnational migration. This study focuses on Pakistan as a sending country and …
Dit boek omvat thema's die uiteenlopen van gestandaardiseerde verkeersborden om mensenlevens op de weg te redden tot de Europabus die in de jaren '50 toeristen van Stockholm naar Rome vervoerde.
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens…
"A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the human impulses that keep sprawl spreading." "More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and s…
Documents the worsening transport crisis and differences among countries in their urban transport and land-use systems. The focus is on public policies to deal with urban transport problems. Through case studies, the book seeks to evaluate the effectivenes.
"This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management. Achieving sustainable transport requires more than 'optimal' management of congestion and the effects on public health and the environme…
The basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field that should be understood by every transportation professional are presented here in a thorough, coherent, and self-contained way. Introductory chapters on "tools" cover topics such as graphical methods, optim…
Presents the basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field. This book contains chapters on'tools', covering topics such as graphical methods, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics and simulation, which are complemented by application cha…