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The second edition of Introduction to Transportation Engineering has been developed to provide a concise yet thorough introduction to intermodal transportation. One of its underlying concepts is that the basic techniques and principles of transportation engineering are of wide application. For practical reasons, the major emphasis is often on highways, but care is taken to show how basic concepts and techniques apply to different modes.

The book strives to provide a background in transportation planning, analysis, and design while emphasizing the social, economic, and political context of transportation engineering. It places major emphasis on important practical topics such as geometric design, Highway Capacity Manual methods, and traffic signal timing, and also emphasizes important theoretical topics such as the fundamental techniques of traffic analysis and the economic theory underlying transportation demand modeling.

The text has been revised and updated to reflect the 2000 revision of the Highway Capacity Manual. The numbers of flow charts, diagrams, and photos have been increased from the previous edition. The text also offers new open-ended design exercises pertaining to common design problems in transportation such as horizontal and vertical alignment of roads, railways, or runways; traffic design for highways; planning and design of traffic control; and design of bus routes and schedules. These exercises respond to ABET-2000 accreditation requirements, particularly to civil engineering program criteria that require “design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum.” ... Read more

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Textintroduces the fundamentals of ITS planning and operations. Places special emphasis on traffic flow issues and principles and provides severalexamples of successful ITS applications. A supplementary text forupper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in ITS or related areas.Includes review questions, index. ... Read more

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This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Smalls seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments of congestion modelling, environmental costs, and transit subsidies.

Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, it contains case studies from a range of countries including congestion charging in Norway, Singapore and the UK, light rail in the Netherlands and freeway tolls in the US.

Small and Verhoef cover all basic topics needed for any application of economics to transportation:

• forecasting the demand for transportation services under alternative policies
• measuring all the costs including those incurred by users
• setting prices under practical constraints
• choosing and evaluating investments in basic facilities
• designing ways in which the private and public sectors interact to provide services.

This book will be of great interest to students with basic calculus and some knowledge of economic theory who are engaged with transportation economics, planning and, or engineering, travel demand analysis, and many related fields. It will also be essential reading for researchers in any aspect of urban transportation.

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The methods of discrete choice analysis and their applications in the modelling of transportation systems constitute a comparatively new field that has largely evolved over the past 15 years. Since its inception, however, the field has developed rapidly, and this is the first text and reference work to cover the material systematically, bringing together the scattered and often inaccessible results for graduate students and professionals.

Discrete Choice Analysis presents these results in such a way that they are fully accessible to the range of students and professionals who are involved in modelling demand and consumer behavior in general or specifically in transportation - whether from the point of view of the design of transit systems, urban and transport economics, public policy, operations research, or systems management and planning.

The introductory chapter presents the background of discrete choice analysis and context of transportation demand forecasting. Subsequent chapters cover, among other topics, the theories of individual choice behavior, binary and multinomial choice models, aggregate forecasting techniques, estimation methods, tests used in the process of model development, sampling theory, the nested-logit model, and systems of models.

Moshe Ben-Akiva and Steven R. Lerman are both faculty members of the Civil Engineering Department at MIT and affiliated with its Center for Transportation Studies. Discrete Choice Analysis is ninth in the MIT Press Series in Transportation Studies, edited by Marvin Manheim. ... Read more

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A classic book for graduate students in transportation engineering
Very good book by the top scientist in the field of transport demand modeling. Useful to have it in the library if you are a professional.

An overall good book that needs some update and expansion.
Two knowledgable authors gave in-depth treatments on the subject of DCM. The math is fairly easy to follow in most places. The biggest strength is a nice combination of theoretical and practical issues. The readers howevershould be benefitted from a new edition, which should include, among otherthings, extended exposures on ordered responses and grouped/aggregated dataanalyses with DCM. An introduction to the existing software and relevantissues should also be a plus.

Excellent treatment of transportation travel demand
This book is intended for serious graduate students who wish to learn demand analysis. This book is used as a text for the demand analysis course at MIT for 1st/2nd year grad students. Rigorous statistical and econometricbackground is a must preparation for this book. Includes very crisp andelegant proofs and dicussion. Impressive methodological treatment fordemand analysis. Although all examples are drawn from the Transportationfield, the content can easily be implemented for Marketing Science andother fields. ... Read more

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Thirtieth Anniversary Edition-

More than 30 years ago, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons pioneered EMS education by publishing Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured. Today, the Eighth Edition continues that dedication for future EMT-Basics and the instructors who are paving their way.

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Eighth Edition is the center of an integrated teaching and learning system that will help define the future direction of EMS education. It combines comprehensive medical content with dynamic new features and interactive technology to better support instructors and to help prepare students for the field. Includes free EMT-B Mobile Field Guide (runs on PalmPilot, eBook Reader, Windows CE based handheld). ... Read more

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Good Text
Good textbook as an introduction to EMS.Have been using this text for all the EMT-B classes I have taught

Emergency
This Book is great if you are studying to become an EMT-B cause this book is very good and very good at explaning the basics of become an EMT i think some of the picture are graphic but very well done and i think you will pass using this book, there are other EMT book but i think this one is the best. ... Read more

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Offers practitioners a detailed, current, and interdisciplinary introduction to transportation engineering and planning.This up-to-date know-how drawn from current literature and practice references the latest computer programs in the public and private sectors. Includes coverage of geometric design that reflects the latest revisions of AASHTO's Geometric Design. Discusses Transportation Economics, Traffic Flow, and Transportation Systems Management.For practitioners in transportation engineering and planning. ... Read more

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Engineer
This book seems to contain plenty of updated information gathered from many good resources. With the exeption of the very many typos, this book is great.

Different point of view
This book covers most of the fundamental knowledge of transportation engineering. The example is straight forward. You might need to adapt it for the real practise. In the descriptive topic, author has his style/vocab. of writing which is quite tough at the begining to understand but his ideas is interesting.

A pretty good book
This is a good book covering the fundamentals of Transportation Engineering. There are a bunch of typos which irritate a bit, otherwise the book is okay.

Terrible book.
Don't buy this book.It is awful.It is not based on sound engineering principles, but based upon lies.Please do not buy it, I beg of you. ... Read more

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Fast Moving
The story is about how transpurtaion. Also how people get from place to place. Also how cars pollute the air. It shows exelent color, picture. It is very scientific. ... Read more

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* An ideal textbook for Urban Transportation Planning
* Incorporates major legislation (ISTEA, CAAA) and other developments that affect transportation planning
* Presented in a convenient tabular form
* Contains effective figures and tables ... Read more

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State of the art transportation planning text
Urban Transportation Planning is well written and well organized. Complicated modeling techniques are explained in detail. The process flow charts and bubble graphs simplify complex relationships between transportation, land use, planning and politics. Strengths and weaknesses of different modeling strategies are discussed in detail.

Extensive chapter bibliographies are useful for students and professionals seeking detailed discussions of topics covered in the text. ... Read more

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This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decision making in transportation project development and programming, which can help transportation professionals to optimize their investment choices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies for evaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs and impacts are taken into consideration.

The text's logical organization gets readers started with a solid foundation in basic principles and then progressively builds on that foundation. Topics covered include:

• Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimating travel demand, and costing transportation projects

• Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts for such factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operating costs

• Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and land use as well as its impact on society and culture

• Assessing a project's environmental impact, including air quality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics

• Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multiple performance criteria

• Programming transportation investments so that resources can be optimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-wide goals

Given that billions of dollars are spent each year on transportation systems in the United States alone, and that there is a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision making for cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this text should be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers, and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is an ideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysis and evaluation. ... Read more

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Urban Transportation Systems is a complete guide to the types of transportation available to communities together with the technical tools needed to evaluate each for given circumstances. ... Read more

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Authors' ad copy***Use whenever possible***The Clean Air Act of 1991 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1994 require that metropolitan transportation planning agencies give high priority to the improvement of air quality. Under these laws, transportation planners must design regional highway and transit systems that contribute substantially to the attainment of federal air quality standards. This new requirement reveals important limitations to the standard methods by which transportation planners do their work. The mathematical models and statistical techniques used by transportation planners appear to be inadequate to enable them to analyze the air quality implications of alternative transportation plans. This was the situation when a group of environmental organizations brought suit in federal district court alleging that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay area had violated requirements of these laws in its transportation planning and highway funding activities.This volume provides an account of the legal dispute that pitted environmentalists against regional transportation planners, and which demonstrated that regional transportation planning methods are in need of substantial improvement. This monograph should be of interest to urban planners, environmentalists, public policy analysts, and those who apply mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to questions of public policy. The authors--an attorney and a transportation planner who took part in the lawsuit--analyze the specific arguments made by both sides in this important legal action, and draw from the specific case broader conclusions about the role of technical analysis in public policy making.***************************************************************Urban planning does not and cannot exist in isolation--there are a large number of external factors that impact on a planner's work including politics and the planning commission; environmental impact studies; and national, state, and local legislation. Focusing on the interrelations between federal legislation, the judicial process, and transportation planning, Transportation Planning on Trial examines the interaction between regional transportation planning and environmental, particularly air, quality. This unique volume is designed to help urban planners understand the legal restrictions and requirements that directly impact how they operate. It considers two recent federal legislation pieces--the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991--that mark the most important landmarks in a decade-long shift in emphasis in regional transportation planning.This groundbreaking volume will be vitally important to transportation planners, students of urban and transportation planning, transportation policymakers, environmentalists and environmental lawyers. ... Read more

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A great primer on logistics
The only bad thing about this book is that it is getting a little long in the tooth. It was printed in 1997. But despite its length and the nature of the subject (I know many people think that logistics ranks right up there with actuarial science for "reading-to-fall-asleep-to") the author has performed an excellent service in providing this book. It is a well written introduction to the field of logistics written in short and simple language. I bought the book looking for more knowledge about the industry as a speculator, and didn't find it a bit daunting. So if you are the least bit curious about logistics this is a great book to start out with....you'll learn about the various fields (and career opportunities if you are a student) as well as some of the basic terminology. This is a great source for information about other organizations and certifications as well. A good reference for starters. The author should update this book as I have found nothing like it currently out on the market. ... Read more

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The seventy-five year history that chronicles the development ofreusable lifting-reentry spacecraft. From the early works of EugenSanger in Germany, to the Cold War developments in the United States,and finally to the ultimate experience - Space Shuttle. ... Read more

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Excellent, but only for die-hards...
This book is an incredibly detailed exploration of history of the development of the Space Transportation System (aka space shuttle). The book begins with a history of some pioneering work by Germans in WWII and follows the history of the development of the concept of the shuttle, how contracts were awarded to aerospace firms, and how the actual shuttle was built. The book also details the first 75 shuttle missions.

The text is vigorously illustrated with copious black and white photos as well as many, many line drawings of various proposed shuttle variants, design concepts, etc.

Books like these are a boon to those who have read all of the standard "so-you're-interested-in-the-space-program" books as they delve deeply into technical issues and provide a lot of hard data as opposed to broad strokes. This book works very well with such texts as the "NASA mission reports series" edited by R. Godwin.

My one and only complaint is that there are many typographical errors and omitted punctuation marks that are distracting.

A must for those really interested in the details.

Required reading for the next generation of rocket engineers
Jenkins is a veteran engineer from NASA, having spent over 15 years working with the shuttle. This book is a fundamental reference for anyone interested in any one of several areas:1) technical approaches to building a reusable or semi-reusable launch vehicle2) the history of the Space Shuttle, including its funding, construction and flights 3) the technology of the Space Shuttle, as it was original built and as it has beenmodified through the years.The book focuses on the technical details of today's Shuttle, and how the design of the Shuttle got that way.It starts of with a discussion of early work on high speed vehicles with aerodynamic lift, including the Sanger and Bredt work, the first X-planes, the X-15, and Dyna-Soar, along with many other vehicles not so famous, including extensive discussion on early lifting bodies.The book continues with a long discussion of the literally dozens of distinct design concepts from multiple sources which were made in the pre-Shuttle era to obtain low cost access to space via reusability. Eventually NASA issued a series of contracts to explore reusable vehicle concepts.The book is at its best here, as it attempts to follow the flowering of design concepts by the different aerospace companies.Almost every conceivable type of reusable vehicle is represented.Wings range from deltas to conventional shapes, thermal protection ranges from super alloys to ablative shielding and booster range from elegant winged monsters to throw-away solids.Some vehicles have folding wings, some have fully internal propellant tanks, and some have expendable tanks.The number of engines in the upper stage varies - early contractors were offered the possibility of being given engines with more thrust than the current SSME, allowing two rather than three engines to be used.Abort mode analysis eventually convinced most that three smaller engines were better than two larger engines, even though performance was not as good.All vehicles are illustrated by beautifully prepared line drawings, with important features pointed out with lines and fragments of text ("skid type landing gear", "abort solid rocket motors" , "air breathing engines").There is even a discussion of Chrysler's SERV (Single -stage, Earth-orbital, Reusable Vehicle), an early SSTO with a semi conical shape and aerospike engines which took off and landed vertically.It dwarfed the current SSTO concepts, being able to put 116,000 lbs into orbit.The book then follows the Shuttle itself, through its early design concepts and evolution, to its building and early flight testing.The book deals only briefly with the operational record of the Shuttle (in contrast to most Shuttle books, which focus on the flights and not the vehicle).Some brief information on the first 50 flights is followed by an analysis of the accident and the resulting Shuffle modifications.The remaining flights are then briefly discussed.The final third of the book gives a detailed technical description of the Shuttle as it exists today, down to such obscure items as the Shuttle's coordinate system (definitions of x, y and z axes) and line drawings of the pilot's rudder pedals and attached hardware (including a "Brake System Artificial Feel Bungee").The last chapter of the book is titled "The Next Generation" and discusses possible modifications to the Shuttle (liquid boosters, the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor), Shuttle derivatives (Shuttle C, Shuttle Z), possible Shuttle II configurations (aiming for full reusability), and the HL-20 personal launch system (for launch from a Titan IV).Jenkins generally takes the position of a historian.He doesn't discuss for example which of a number of different design concepts he favors, but does do a good job of presenting the arguments of others for or against different designs.Much of the early history of the Shuttle should be required reading for anyone wishing to develop a new vehicle.For example: "It became clear, even during the NASA's early in-house analyses, that any economic justification depended crucially on the Space Shuttle being the only US launch vehicle during the 1980s and later." "But there were dissidents as well.Several 1970 studies by the think-tank RAND Corporation stated that Space Shuttle "...development is not easy to justify..."Based primarily on traffic rates derived from conservative options in the STG and DoD plans, it was projected that the Space Shuttle would show a net transportation cost savings of $2.8 billion in the fifteen years ending in 1990. ..... while a savings of $2.8 billion seemed large, total costs for all the programs involved ranged from approximately $75 billion to over $140 billion (FY75-90), and any technical difficulties or overruns in the programs could negate all of the savings..."All in all, an excellent book.Much of the information on the current shuttle design is probably available elsewhere, but the information on the early design proposals has probably never been collected before.For such information, Jenkins went to the archives of the various companies involved, and dug the information up himself.

Best single reference on the Space Shuttle system
Dennis Jenkins has generated the ultimate reference on the Space Shuttle program.Covering everything from the first concept designs of the 1960's to the latest technology upgrades, it is virtually required reading for space enthusiasts. Excellent photographs and illustrations fill the pages, including line drawings of dozens of the early designs and the current Shuttle subsystems.If I were to own only a single book on the Shuttle program, this would be it.

An excellent and definitive history of the Space Shuttle.
Surprisingly, the concept of a Space Shuttle-like vehicle is much older than most people know. During the 1930s, German engineer Eugen Sanger designed the "Silverbird," a winged rocket that glided back to Earth at the completion of its mission. During World War II, he promoted his vehicle to the Luftwaffe as an "Amerika Bomber": a reuseable winged spacecraft that would deliver bombs onto New York City. The Amerika Bomber was never built, but many of Sanger's concepts were recurring themes throughout the history of spacecraft development.

In this book, the author chronicles the work of Sanger and all others who are found on the road to the Space Shuttle. And a long road it has been: research vehicles like the X-Planes and lifting bodies; a staggering number of design concepts; engineering triumphs and fatal tragedies; and, of course, the fickle political winds that decided if, when, and how an idea would be turned into an actual working spacecraft.

Rather than just a dry history and collection of technical facts, Dennis Jenkins gives the reader a feel for the reasons things were done they way they were. I think this is the most interesting aspect of the book -- the "why" component of history. Mr. Jenkins gives us a look into the aerospace industry, and we see a bit of how NASA, corporations, and economics dictated what the Space Shuttle eventually became.

The latter half of the book is dedicated to a technical description of the Space Shuttle and its missions to date. As a former Shuttle Engineer and one of the proof readers for this book, I was fairly astonished at detail and careful accuracy in the book. If you want to know any hard fact concerning the Space Shuttle -- from mission crew to engine serial numbers -- this is the perfect reference. If you want understand a piece of history and how our aerospace industry really works, this book is an ideal choice. ... Read more

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A Classic
This is the classic text on the transportation revolution of the first half of the 19th century. An excellent read. Highly recommended among historians. ... Read more

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Tracing the antecedents and the creation of the U.S. Department of Transportation, this work assesses its role in both the control of transportation and the encouragement of big businesses in the industry. The U.S. government has struggled for over a century with the complex issue of transportation regulation. The prevailing view from the 1880s until recently was to consider private transportation a public utility, which led to the creation of the DOT in 1966. This work covers much of the regulation/deregulation debates from Hoover to the Nixon presidencies, and focuses on the bipartisan crescendo for deregulation led by Gerald Ford and Edward Kennedy. Whitnah also analyzes the heated debate over airline deregulation that resumed in the Carter years and continues to have an impact today. ... Read more

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Vault brings its famed journalistic, insider approach to transportation industry employers. The Guide provides business profiles, hiring and workplace culture information on top employers, including American Airlines, Airborne, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, DHL, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, FedEx Corporation, Hertz, JetBlue Airways, United Parcel Service, and more. ... Read more