Author: Chris Bruntlett
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831654
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people. Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing. Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
Curbing Traffic
Author: Chris Bruntlett
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831654
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people. Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing. Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831654
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people. Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing. Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
Japan Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Playing in Traffic
Author: Stan Purdum
Publisher: CSS Publishing
ISBN: 078802129X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Experience the romance and adventure of the open road as one bicyclist travels the full length of U.S. Route 62, from Niagara Falls, New York, to El Paso, Texas. This story is filled with the author's humorous experiences, wry observations and fascinating encounters with people who live along this byway, which slices diagonally across America's heartland. Available 06/2001
Publisher: CSS Publishing
ISBN: 078802129X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Experience the romance and adventure of the open road as one bicyclist travels the full length of U.S. Route 62, from Niagara Falls, New York, to El Paso, Texas. This story is filled with the author's humorous experiences, wry observations and fascinating encounters with people who live along this byway, which slices diagonally across America's heartland. Available 06/2001
Traffic
Author: Tom Vanderbilt
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307373177
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307373177
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.
Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
Author: Itayi Garande
Publisher: Dean Thompson Publishing
ISBN: 1701488957
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
#1 Amazon Best Seller! This book is a 'change your life' workbook that will transform your life. Do you want to live a happier, wealthier and purposeful life? Do you want your life to change now? Are you finding it difficult to move ahead? Do you sometimes feel depressed, uninspired and unmotivated? If your answer to any one of these questions is 'Yes', then this book is for you. If you liked Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, you will love this book. Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute follows in the tradition of change your life and confidence-boosting books like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. This book will show you ways of taking full responsibility for your life and change everything that has been blocking your progress. You will find practical steps to change your life and inspiring stories and quotes to create the life you desire. It's a change your life book that is based on real-life examples and stories of how one can lead a happier, richer and fulfilled life. If you understand what conditioned you to think and act in a certain way, you can break that conditioning and start reconditioning to live a happier, healthier and wealthier life. Reviews Itayi takes you on a journey of real-life situations which helps with application of simple, yet effective life-changing practices and attitudes.... can be used and applied in everyday life.' (Norah Spie-Author of 'Parallel Lines') 'Masterful... a great book that looks at the power of reconditioning your mind to change your life in the face of adversity.' (Tony Morris-UK Barrister) 'Witty, fresh, unputdownable and a great motivational book on how everyone, regardless of their background, can achieve success.' (Jossine Abrahams-Multi-award winning author on domestic violence) 'A great motivational book that everyone should have on their shelf.' (George Bryan-Writer and motivational speaker) 'Reading an amazing book by Itayi Garande. A must read for everyone who has made it outside of their home country.' (Tshepang Nare, @tsewarona-Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences) About the Author Itayi lives in the United Kingdom. In less than 20 years, he set up an airline in his native Zimbabwe, founded and edited a newspaper, ran an employment business, and set up a commodities company specialising in gold and diamonds. He has now set up a publishing company, Dean Thompson Publishing. This Amazon No. 1 Best Seller is a must read motivational book! Excerpt from Chapter 5In one minute, you can recondition your mind to think differently about your situation, to break the existing condition that is limiting you. Leaving it to fate will not help. You have to make it happen and you have to do it now. You have to be the alchemist who transforms something common into something special.
Publisher: Dean Thompson Publishing
ISBN: 1701488957
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
#1 Amazon Best Seller! This book is a 'change your life' workbook that will transform your life. Do you want to live a happier, wealthier and purposeful life? Do you want your life to change now? Are you finding it difficult to move ahead? Do you sometimes feel depressed, uninspired and unmotivated? If your answer to any one of these questions is 'Yes', then this book is for you. If you liked Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, you will love this book. Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute follows in the tradition of change your life and confidence-boosting books like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. This book will show you ways of taking full responsibility for your life and change everything that has been blocking your progress. You will find practical steps to change your life and inspiring stories and quotes to create the life you desire. It's a change your life book that is based on real-life examples and stories of how one can lead a happier, richer and fulfilled life. If you understand what conditioned you to think and act in a certain way, you can break that conditioning and start reconditioning to live a happier, healthier and wealthier life. Reviews Itayi takes you on a journey of real-life situations which helps with application of simple, yet effective life-changing practices and attitudes.... can be used and applied in everyday life.' (Norah Spie-Author of 'Parallel Lines') 'Masterful... a great book that looks at the power of reconditioning your mind to change your life in the face of adversity.' (Tony Morris-UK Barrister) 'Witty, fresh, unputdownable and a great motivational book on how everyone, regardless of their background, can achieve success.' (Jossine Abrahams-Multi-award winning author on domestic violence) 'A great motivational book that everyone should have on their shelf.' (George Bryan-Writer and motivational speaker) 'Reading an amazing book by Itayi Garande. A must read for everyone who has made it outside of their home country.' (Tshepang Nare, @tsewarona-Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences) About the Author Itayi lives in the United Kingdom. In less than 20 years, he set up an airline in his native Zimbabwe, founded and edited a newspaper, ran an employment business, and set up a commodities company specialising in gold and diamonds. He has now set up a publishing company, Dean Thompson Publishing. This Amazon No. 1 Best Seller is a must read motivational book! Excerpt from Chapter 5In one minute, you can recondition your mind to think differently about your situation, to break the existing condition that is limiting you. Leaving it to fate will not help. You have to make it happen and you have to do it now. You have to be the alchemist who transforms something common into something special.
Social Media on the Road
Author: Oskar Juhlin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1849963320
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In the future, everyday life in traffic will be intricately meshed with city life. Today motorways, cities and streets are places where we spend a considerable amount of time, and where a large number of everyday encounters between people occur. Any road user’s journey coincides with hundreds or even thousands of others. This book unpacks the details of the practical achievements involved in socially engaging with people at high speed. Although, generally speaking, these encounters are brief and interaction is slight, the recent emergence of mobile technologies offers opportunities to support drivers and passengers beyond just helping them to reach their destination. New social media could enhance interaction in traffic making life on the road more interesting and meaningful. Such innovative applications could include car stereos that share music amongst drivers; digital games that interact with the landscape passing outside the car windows, or with passengers in surrounding cars; message systems that allow drivers to help each other; and web applications that allow motorcyclists to socialize on the road. Social Media on the Road - The Future of Car Based Computing provides a bridge between research in transport planning and traffic technology, and new media areas such as Computer Human Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Those studying and researching in the areas of human computer interaction in mobile use contexts, and those interested in developing new forms of mobile applications and services will find this book an excellent resource. Oskar Juhlin is Associate Professor and Director of the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre at Stockholm University and Interactive Institute. 'This book represents a pioneering and key research work that examines the future of transportation being merged with communication and interactive media. It also provides a glimpse of the future potential of mixed reality entertainment for children and family on the move. It is essential for scientists, designers, and engineers working on mobile social media, as well as for business people looking for new potential urban transport media services.' Professor Adrian D. Cheok, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1849963320
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In the future, everyday life in traffic will be intricately meshed with city life. Today motorways, cities and streets are places where we spend a considerable amount of time, and where a large number of everyday encounters between people occur. Any road user’s journey coincides with hundreds or even thousands of others. This book unpacks the details of the practical achievements involved in socially engaging with people at high speed. Although, generally speaking, these encounters are brief and interaction is slight, the recent emergence of mobile technologies offers opportunities to support drivers and passengers beyond just helping them to reach their destination. New social media could enhance interaction in traffic making life on the road more interesting and meaningful. Such innovative applications could include car stereos that share music amongst drivers; digital games that interact with the landscape passing outside the car windows, or with passengers in surrounding cars; message systems that allow drivers to help each other; and web applications that allow motorcyclists to socialize on the road. Social Media on the Road - The Future of Car Based Computing provides a bridge between research in transport planning and traffic technology, and new media areas such as Computer Human Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Those studying and researching in the areas of human computer interaction in mobile use contexts, and those interested in developing new forms of mobile applications and services will find this book an excellent resource. Oskar Juhlin is Associate Professor and Director of the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre at Stockholm University and Interactive Institute. 'This book represents a pioneering and key research work that examines the future of transportation being merged with communication and interactive media. It also provides a glimpse of the future potential of mixed reality entertainment for children and family on the move. It is essential for scientists, designers, and engineers working on mobile social media, as well as for business people looking for new potential urban transport media services.' Professor Adrian D. Cheok, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University.
Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories
Author: Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher: Fairwood Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you’ll find inhabitants of a small town who won’t vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his new life of hardship for a return to swords and blood, and many more tales of speculative fiction. Buckell’s fertile imagination is on display in Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories as he comments on edgy issues of injustice and offers a thorny path to discover the human heart and all the strange things humans do. All the while, he keeps you looking over your shoulder, waiting for rush hour to end.
Publisher: Fairwood Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you’ll find inhabitants of a small town who won’t vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his new life of hardship for a return to swords and blood, and many more tales of speculative fiction. Buckell’s fertile imagination is on display in Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories as he comments on edgy issues of injustice and offers a thorny path to discover the human heart and all the strange things humans do. All the while, he keeps you looking over your shoulder, waiting for rush hour to end.
Road Safety
Author: Milenko Čabarkapa
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527542009
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is dedicated to all road users, highlighting their responsibility to do everything to protect their own safety and that of others. It is also dedicated to all road designers to do everything in their power to adapt the system to the opportunities and constraints of road users. At this moment in time, this book is needed to affirm the role and importance of the coordination and sharing of responsibilities at all levels of road traffic safety management, from global, regional, national, to local levels. Its key finding is that vertical coordination should be two-way: from global to local and from local to global, in both reflection and action. The book shows that, at the researched levels of organization the EU, Great Britain and Montenegro, it is possible achieve the goal of zero deaths in road traffic accidents by 2050.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527542009
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is dedicated to all road users, highlighting their responsibility to do everything to protect their own safety and that of others. It is also dedicated to all road designers to do everything in their power to adapt the system to the opportunities and constraints of road users. At this moment in time, this book is needed to affirm the role and importance of the coordination and sharing of responsibilities at all levels of road traffic safety management, from global, regional, national, to local levels. Its key finding is that vertical coordination should be two-way: from global to local and from local to global, in both reflection and action. The book shows that, at the researched levels of organization the EU, Great Britain and Montenegro, it is possible achieve the goal of zero deaths in road traffic accidents by 2050.
Good Roads
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Operations Research and Decision Aid Methodologies in Traffic and Transportation Management
Author: Martine Labbe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662035146
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Every one relies on some kind of transportation system nearly every day. Go ing to work, shopping, dropping children at school and many other cultural or social activities imply leaving home, and using some form of transportation, which we expect tobe eflicient and reliable. Of course, efliciency and reliabil ity do not occur by chance, but require careful and often relatively complex planning by transportation system managers, both in the public and private sectors. It has long been recognized that mathematics, and, more specifically, op erations research is an important tool of this planning process. However, the range of skills required to cover both fields, even partially, is very large, and the opportunities to gather people with this very diverse expertise are too few. The organization of the NATO Advanced Studies Institute on "Opera tions Research and Decision Aid Methodologies in Traflic and Transportation Management" in March 1997 in Balatonfüred, Hungary, was therefore more than welcome and the group of people that gathered for a very studious two weeks on the shores of the beautiful lake Balaton did really enjoy the truly multidisciplinary and high scientific level of the meeting. The purpose of the present volume is to report, in a chronological order, the various questions that were considered by the lecturers and the' students at the institute. After a general introduction to the topic, the first week focused on issues related to traflic modeling, mostly in an urban context.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662035146
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Every one relies on some kind of transportation system nearly every day. Go ing to work, shopping, dropping children at school and many other cultural or social activities imply leaving home, and using some form of transportation, which we expect tobe eflicient and reliable. Of course, efliciency and reliabil ity do not occur by chance, but require careful and often relatively complex planning by transportation system managers, both in the public and private sectors. It has long been recognized that mathematics, and, more specifically, op erations research is an important tool of this planning process. However, the range of skills required to cover both fields, even partially, is very large, and the opportunities to gather people with this very diverse expertise are too few. The organization of the NATO Advanced Studies Institute on "Opera tions Research and Decision Aid Methodologies in Traflic and Transportation Management" in March 1997 in Balatonfüred, Hungary, was therefore more than welcome and the group of people that gathered for a very studious two weeks on the shores of the beautiful lake Balaton did really enjoy the truly multidisciplinary and high scientific level of the meeting. The purpose of the present volume is to report, in a chronological order, the various questions that were considered by the lecturers and the' students at the institute. After a general introduction to the topic, the first week focused on issues related to traflic modeling, mostly in an urban context.