Table of Contents

1. OVERVIEW OF TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation and Society. Career Opportunities in Transportation. Transportation History.
2. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MODELS.
Systems and Their Characteristics. Components of Transportation Systems. Tools and Techniques for Analyzing Transportation Systems.
3. HUMAN, VEHICLE AND TRAVELWAY CHARACTERISTICS.
Human Characteristics. The Human Response Process. Passenger Behavior Characteristics in Transportation Terminals. Vehicle Characteristics. Travel way Characteristics.
4. TRANSPORTATION CAPACITY AND ANALYSIS.
The Capacity Concept. The Level of Service Concept. Highway Capacity. Transit Capacity. Pedestrian Facilities. Bicycle Facilities. Airport Runway Capacity.
5. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND EVALUATION.
A Context for Multimodel Transportation Planning. Factors in Choosing a Freight or Passenger Mode. The Transportation Planning Process. Estimating Future Travel Demand. Evaluating Transportation Alternatives.
6. GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF TRAVELWAYS.
Classification of Transportation Travelways. Classification System of Highways and Streets. Classification of Airport Runways. Classification of Airport Taxiways. Classification of Railroad Tracks. Design Standards for Travelways. Runway and Taxiway Design Standards. Railroad Track Design Standards. Design of the Vertical Alignment. Design of the Horizontal Alignment. Determination of the Orientation and Length of an Airport Runway.
7. STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF TRAVELWAYS.
Structural Components of Travelways. General Principles of Structural Design of Travelways.
8. TRANSPORTATION SAFETY.
Issues Involved in Transportation Safety. Collection and Analysis of Crash Data. High-Priority Safety Improvements. Highway Safety: Who Is at Risk and What Can be Done? Commercial Transportation Safety: A Team Approach.
9. INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
Freeway and Incident Management Systems. Advanced Arterial Traffic Control (AATC) Systems. Multimodal Traveler Information Systems. Advanced Technologies for Rail.

About the Author

Dr. Adel Sadek is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the Universty of Vermont, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Transportation Systems Modeling and Simulation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Computational Intelligence Applications, and Transportation Planning and Infrastructure Management. He has extensive research experience in the application of computer simulation to transportation systems modeling and analysis. Dr. Sadek is the recepient of the 1998 Milton Pilarsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of Transportation Science and Technology and is also a member of the Advanced Technologies Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Lester A. Hoel is the L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering and the Director of the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Virginia. He held the Hamilton Professorship in Civil Engineering from 1974-99. From 1974-89 he was Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. Previously he was Professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Director, Transportation Research Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and on the faculty at San Diego State University. He also was principal engineer with Wilbur Smith and Associates and visiting professor at the Norwegian Technical University and the University of California at Irvine and a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Nicholas J. Garber is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia where he has been a member of the faculty since September of 1980. Before joining the University of Virginia, Dr. Garber was a Professor of Civil Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sierra Leone, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, he played an important role in the development of the graduate program in Transportation Engineering. For several years, he was a design engineer for consulting engineering firms in London, and also worked as an Area Engineer and Assistant Resident Engineer in Sierra Leone.

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