Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS 1998)

by Zhaoxia Yang, American Society of Civil Engineers Staff, Baohua Mao, Kelvin C. Wang

Overview

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Studies, held in Beijing, China, July 27-29, 1998.

This collection contains 103 papers covering transportation planning, traffic operations and optimization, railway transportation management, highway management systems, and transportation policies. The papers are arranged according to four themes in transportation: policy and management, planning and optimization, design and appraisal, and applications of new technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780784403525
Publisher:	American Society of Civil Engineers
Publication date:	01/01/1998

Editorial Reviews

In 103 papers, transportation professionals explore key issues and innovation technologies, and exchange ideas on current projects and future prospects for traffic and transportation studies. The general themes are policy and management, planning and optimization, design and appraisal, and applications of new technologies. The keynote topics are methodologies for identifying highway safety problem areas and high-hazard locations, the use of the path flow estimator in multimodal networks, and travel time prediction systems for freeway work zones. Among others are the impact of high-speed rail on domestic air travel demand, evaluating and analyzing the milticriterion traffic tool choices, designing a road network in a market economy, and the practice of parking management in Adelaide. Many of the papers consider recent conditions and solutions in China. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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