Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Multi-viewpoint evaluation of transportation projects and systems
Author: National Transportation Planning
Author: Adib KanafaniPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400975473
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Soon after starting work on the development of a methodology for national trans portation planning in Venezuela, we realized the importance of an integrated management process for such an effort. We also realized the absence in the literature of specific guidelines on how to manage and conduct a transportation planning effort. The literature on the subject of national transportation planning is predominantly theoretical and technical in nature. To a large extent, the absence of literature on management and broad-based methodological approaches reflects the limited and ad hoc nature of the experience in national transportation planning. This book is an attempt to fill that gap. The main objective of the book is to show one way by which a methodology for national transportation planning can be integrated into a process management framework. It reports on the experience that the authors had in the Venezuelan case, as well as in earlier national planning efforts. The book is not intended as a theoretical discussion of planning. Instead, it adopts a particular theoretical stand and proceeds on that basis to develop a program for applying a specific methodology. The intention is to leave as much of the details and elaborations of that methodology to the user. This is motivated by two considerations. The first is a pragmatic attempt to limit the scope of the book.
Socio-economic and Community Factors in Planning Urban Freeways
Author: A. Bruce BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Transport decisions in an age of uncertainty
Author: E.J. VisserPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400997078
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Transport Research, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 1977
Transportation Decision Making
Author: Kumares C. SinhaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118169662
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Papers
Author: Transportation Research ForumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Includes papers from the Canadian Transportation Research Forum and the regional conferences of the Washington and New York chapters of the Transportation Research Forum
Transportation Planning in Developing Areas
Author: Maidel CasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Multimodal Evaluation of Passenger Transportation
Author: G. Scott RutherfordPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309056632
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This synthesis will be of interest to transportation planners, environmental analysts, and government officials at the federal, state, regional, and local levels. It describes the state of the practice with respect to the procedures and methodologies used by planning agencies at all levels to plan and evaluate alternative multimodal passenger transportation and to integrate these plans with related land use and environmental issues. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the federal studies and guidelines that are available and presents the findings of an extensive survey of state, regional, and local agencies to identify the evaluation methods that are being used in the practice. Selected case studies for five types of modal evaluation are presented: intercity corridor, regional study, regional screening, urban corridor, and regional programming.
The Evaluation of Transportation Investment Projects
Author: Joseph BerechmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135214085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This book constructs a comprehensive and methodical economic, planning and decision-making framework for the evaluation of proposed transportation infrastructure investment projects, based on well-established theoretical principles.
Regional Modeling Abstracts
Author: Charles R. Meyers (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
