Transport Planning & Policy

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

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...

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...

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...