By Francis Vanek,Largus Angenent,James H. Banks,Ricardo A. Daziano,Mark A. Turnquist
Engineer and enforce sustainable transportation solutions
Featuring in-depth assurance of passenger and freight transportation, this complete source discusses modern transportation platforms and ideas for making improvements to their sustainability. The publication addresses car and infrastructure layout, economics, environmental matters, strength safeguard, and substitute strength assets and structures. Worked-out examples, case experiences, illustrations, equations, and end-of-chapter difficulties also are incorporated during this useful guide.
Sustainable Transportation structures Engineering covers:
- Background on power defense and weather change
- Systems research instruments and techniques
- Individual offerings and transportation demand
- Transportation structures and car design
- Physical layout of transportation infrastructure
- Congestion mitigation in city passenger transportation
- Role of clever transportation systems
- Public transportation and multimodal solutions
- Personal mobility and accessibility
- Intercity passenger transportation
- Freight transportation functionality and present trends
- Freight modal and provide chain administration approaches
- Spatial and geographic facets of freight transportation
- Alternative fuels and platforms
- Electricity and hydrogen as replacement fuels
- Bioenergy assets and systems
- Transportation safeguard and making plans for severe climate events
PRAISE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION structures ENGINEERING:
"This booklet addresses one of many nice demanding situations of the twenty first century--how to remodel our resource-intensive passenger and freight transportation process right into a set of low-carbon, economically effective, and socially equitable set of services." -- Dan Sperling, Professor and Director, Institute of Transportation reports, collage of California, Davis, writer of Two Billion autos: using towards Sustainability
"...provides a wealthy device package for college kids of sustainable transportation, embracing a structures process. The authors aptly mix engineering, economics, and environmental influence research approaches." -- Susan Shaheen, Professor, division of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability examine heart, collage of California, Berkeley
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