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Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Author: Wes Marshall
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642833312
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us. Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. This goes for traffic engineers in particular because they are still the ones in charge of our streets. In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, Killed by a Traffic Engineer shows how traffic engineering “research” is outdated and unexamined (at its best) and often steered by an industry and culture considering only how to get from point A to B the fastest way possible, to the detriment of safety, quality of life, equality, and planetary health. Marshall examines our need for speed and how traffic engineers disconnected it from safety, the focus on capacity and how it influences design, blaming human error, relying on faulty data, how liability drives reporting, measuring road safety outcomes, and the education (and reeducation) of traffic engineers. Killed by a Traffic Engineer is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. It will make you look at your city and streets—and traffic engineers— in a new light and inspire you to take action.

Author: Wisconsin. Division for Instructional Services
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Category : Automobile driver education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Traffic safety
Languages : en
Pages : 1404

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Author: Michael Patriksson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486802272
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This monograph provides both a unified account of the development of models and methods for the problem of estimating equilibrium traffic flows in urban areas and a survey of the scope and limitations of present traffic models. The development is described and analyzed by the use of the powerful instruments of nonlinear optimization and mathematical programming within the field of operations research. The first part is devoted to mathematical models for the analysis of transportation network equilibria; the second deals with methods for traffic equilibrium problems. This title will interest readers wishing to extend their knowledge of equilibrium modeling and analysis and of the foundations of efficient optimization methods adapted for the solution of large-scale models. In addition to its value to researchers, the treatment is suitable for advanced graduate courses in transportation, operations research, and quantitative economics.

Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Category : City traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1090

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Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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