Regional & Area Planning

Much of recurring congestion is due to physical bottlenecks -- potentially correctable points on the highway system where traffic flow is restricte...

As the U.S. population ages, access to safe and reliable transportation alternatives is critical to helping older adults remain in their homes as l...

Today''s world is changing rapidly - technologically, socially, and environmentally. One of the main challenges is climate change which is accompan...

Rural development researchers and practitioners have argued in recent years that investing in a broad range of assets is a critical component of lo...

Speeding is defined as exceeding posted speed limits or driving too fast for conditions. This is a behaviour that some drivers engage in without re...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation''s faltering economic conditions. One optio...

Almost all commercial service airports in the United States are owned by local and state governments, or by public entities such as airport authori...

Public transit systems, which receive funding from the federal government, are vulnerable to catastrophic events, as demonstrated by the impact Hur...

The increasing use of cellular phones has served as a catalyst for growing interest in driver distraction in recent years. While the use of cellula...

Transportation infrastructure has a significant meaning for the economic growth, the mobility of labour, the opportunities for tendering transport ...

In this book, a number of concepts and understandings about development'' intertwine. Scales, times and human activities are projected onto territo...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the strategies, management and impacts of urban development. Topics included in ...

In fiscal year 2013, the Department of Transportation (DOT) provided about $50 billion to states and other grantees (such as metropolitan planning ...

Community participation has long been recognised as an effective means of helping rural and urban people focus energy and mobilise resources to sol...

This book questions the ethics of government officials'' and automobile industry representatives'' strategies to promote automobiles over other for...

Public health is now considering road safety as a major factor to improve morbidity and mortality but the health community is poorly educated regar...

Since the early 1980s, the periodic debate over the reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs has been primarily about money and i...

Today''s world is changing rapidly - technologically, socially, and environmentally. One of the main challenges is climate change which is accompan...

The Chinese government incorporated tourism and urbanisation as a key component for economic and social development in the Five-Year National Plan....

The omnipresent global economic crisis has had a particularly dramatic effect on the global automotive industry. It has increased the need for a 3r...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation''s faltering economic conditions. One optio...

Cities are beginning a new era of change. From 1920 to 2010 many U.S. cities hollowed out as suburbs grew faster than their urban cores. The trend ...

This book provides guidelines for the implementation of an adaptive lighting system for roadway lighting. Based on the analysis of crashes and ligh...

The federal government collect revenues from taxes paid by highway users, mostly from those levied on gasoline and diesel fuel, and credits them to...

Over the last decade, Class I railroads have consolidated and, particularly in the past two years, have achieved high profitability. The present, m...

The authors in this book present and review varied important data relating to today''s automobiles; their safety assessment, performance, energy co...