Engineering Tools and Solutions for Sustainable Transportation Planning (Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering)

"This book explores the underlying causes of traffic flow problems: transport and urban structures are optimized not as a system for the benefits of the society in a sustainable way but optimized for individual optimization for car users. This book delves into the need for creating sustainable environments, while designing transport structures, and considers system behavior"--

Hermann Knoflacher was trained in civil engineering, mathematics, and geodesy. He became full Professor in Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering in the year 1975 at the Vienna University of Technology. Since then he worked in transport and city planning, carried out more than 100 transport master plans for cities. He was Guest Professor in Universities in Europe, China, Japan and USA. He was also advisor to the Minister of Transport for over eight years. He was member of the advisory groups for the EU Commission for Telematics in the 4.FP and for Intermodality and Sustainable Mobility in the 5. FP. Member and Chairman of Road Research working Groups of the OECD and PIARC, and expert for the WHO. He published 8 books, more than 500 scientific publications, 500 expert opinions, and more than 1,000 lectures in the field of transport planning and traffic engineering worldwide (USA, Europe, Asia, Australia). His key areas of expertise are transport planning, city planning, civil engineering, transport policy.