Transportation Systems and Service Policy: A Project-Based Introduction - Softcover

Schoon, John G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0412074818 ISBN 13: 9780412074813

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

The many aspects of urban transportation planning and design demand a multi­ faceted approach to ensure responsive, economical, and environmentally sensi­ tive facilities that enhance mobility. Yet all too easily the complexity of the process can obscure the major elements. This book aims at assisting the analyst to provide decision makers with a range of solutions by illustrating how service policies regarding quality of service, fares, investment levels, and environmental impacts affect and are affected by each other. This book, therefore, concentrates on the process of planning and design. It addresses the major elements of urban transportation planning, design, and impact estimation, and offers practice in undertaking typical projects. It focuses on the linkages and interaction with public policy regarding user service levels, and the resulting design and impacts. The process is illustrated by (1) outlining the individual transportation analysis and design techniques and their linkages, (2) describing the planning and design process, from population changes affect­ ing demand and mobility needs to estimation of air pollution and energy use impacts that are instrumental in shaping public policy and strategic planning, (3) presenting examples of transportation design projects showing how service policy may affect the physical and operational design of multimodal, urban trans­ portation systems, (4) enabling the readers to obtain practice in basic, applied transportation analysis, design, and impact estimation by defining the key service policy variables of projects for solution, and (5) familiarizing the reader with

About this title

About the Author

John G. Schoon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Transportation Research Group at Southampton University, Southampton, UK. He is also Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

This unique guide to urban transportation planning, design and impact estimation brings together the tools needed to translate theoretical planning and design concepts into practical plans. The book illustrates these tools with simplified examples and projects for students to complete. Coverage includes long-term system planning and short-term demand management, providing students and professionals with a basic understanding of transportation problems encountered in actual practice. Transportation Systems and Service Policy is practically oriented, examining different aspects of transportation including the links between the elements of planning and design. For example, it illustrates how policies affecting quality of service, fares, investment levels, and environmental impact interrelate. These links guide the student and professional from "real life" policy requirements to practical solutions and presentation of findings needed for decision making. In addition the book includes examples and illustrations of transportation design projects that depict how transportation service policy may affect the input parameters that shape the physical and operational design of multi-modal, urban transportation systems. The process shown can be done efficiently through the use of analysis formats for estimation by manual means or computer spreadsheets. Transportation Systems and Service Policy will serve as an ideal design textbook for all senior undergraduate and graduate students in civil engineering, who have concentrations in transportation planning, highway engineering, traffic engineering, transportation systems, urban planning, and environmental planning, as well as a useful reference forpractitioners and professors in these fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412074818
• ISBN 13: 9780412074813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212