Handbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I & Volume II

8 03 2011

 

Handbook of Transportation EngineeringHandbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I & Volume II

Author: Myer Kutz
ISBN: 9780071761130 / 0071761136
©2011 | 2nd Edition | Hardback
Pub Date: MAR-11
Price: US$ 350
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The definitive transportation engineering resource—fully revised and updated

The two-volume Handbook of Transportation Engineering, Second Edition offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the entire transportation engineering field. Featuring 18 new chapters and contributions from nearly 70 leading experts, this authoritative work discusses all types of transportation systems—freight, passenger, air, rail, road, marine, and pipeline—and provides problem-solving engineering, planning, and design tools and techniques with examples of successful applications. Volume I focuses on transportation networks and systems, operations, and economics. Volume II focuses on applications in automobile and non-automobile transportation, and on safety and environmental issues.

 

Volume I covers:

  • National transportation networks and inter-modal systems
  • Transportation network planning: theoretical notions
  • Reliability of travel times and robustness of transport networks
  • Transportation systems modeling and evaluation
  • Software systems and simulation for transportation applications
  • Applications of GIS in transportation
  • Travel demand forecasting
  • Transportation and land use
  • Sustainable transportation practice
  • Transportation planning and modeling
  • Transportation economics
  • Innovative information technology applications in public transportation
  • Parking management
  • Trucking operations
  • The economics of railroad operations: resurgence of a declining industry
  • Airline management and operations
  • The marine transportation system
  • Global logistics
  • Freight transportation planning
  • Management of transportation organizations

 

Volume II covers:

  • Traffic engineering analysis
  • Traffic origin-destination estimation
  • Traffic congestion
  • Highway capacity
  • Traffic control systems: freeway management and communications
  • Traffic signals
  • Highway sign visibility
  • Transportation lighting
  • Geometric design of streets and highways
  • Intersection and interchange design
  • Pavement engineering: flexible and rigid pavements
  • Pavement testing and evaluation
  • Bridge engineering
  • Tunnel engineering
  • Pedestrians
  • Bicycle transportation
  • Spectrum of automated guideway transit (AGT) and its applications
  • Railway vehicle engineering
  • Railway track design
  • Improvement of railroad yard operations
  • Modern aircraft design techniques
  • Airport design
  • Air traffic control systems design
  • Ship design
  • Pipeline engineering
  • Traffic safety
  • Transportation hazards
  • Hazardous materials transportation
  • Incident management
  • Network security and survivability
  • Optimization of emergency evacuation plans
  • Transportation noise issues
  • Air quality issues in transportation
  • Transportation and climate change

 

About the Author

Myer Kutz is President of Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., a publishing and information services consulting firm, and editor of number successful handbooks including Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering Design.

 

 

 





Project Managers Portable Handbook

9 07 2010


Project Managers Portable Handbook

Project Managers Portable Handbook

Authors: Cleland, David; Ireland, Lewis
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-174105-7
ISBN-10: 0071741054
©2011 | 3rd Edition | 464 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: August 2010
Price: US$ 49.95
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The Latest Project Management Data at Your Fingertips

Fully updated throughout, this hands-on guide gives you quick access to current information on project management concepts and practices. Project Manager’s Portable Handbook. third edition, offers concise, practical details on the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to manage projects. Written by world-renowned project management experts, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results. Handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes illustrate pertinent information in this essential on-the-job tool.


Easy-to-Find Project Management Topics:

  • The discipline of project management
  • Project organizational chart
  • Alternative project applications
  • The strategic context of projects
  • Project leadership
  • Project initiation and execution Project planning and control
  • The project culture
  • Improving project management


PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS:


: “It is perhaps the one book that best summarizes a complete knowledge set to be applied in successfully managing projects. It is the one book that project managers should not ‘go to work’ without.”Ken Rose, Book Review Editor, Project Management Journal

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About the Author

David I. Cleland, (Pittsburgh, PA) is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute and two-time recipient of the “Distinguished Contribution to Project Management Award.” He has been described as the “Father of Project Management” and is honored annually with the establishment of the “David I. Cleland Excellence in Project Management Literature Award” sponsored by the PMI.

Lewis R. “Lew” Ireland, (Clarksville, TN), Director of Research for the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (ASAPM), is a 20-year veteran of the Project Management Institute and served as President and Chair in 1998. He received the PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award and Person of the Year Award.

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