Transport Infrastructure and Systems
Transport Infrastructure and Systems

Author: Gianluca Dell'Acqua

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 1134

ISBN-13: 1315281880

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Transport Infrastructure Asset management in transport infrastructure, financial viability of transport engineering projects/ Life cycle Cost Analysis, Life-Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Assessment of transport infrastructure/ Infrastructures financing and pricing with equity appraisal, operation optimization and energy management/ Low-Volume roads: planning, maintenance, operations, environmental and social issues/ Public-Private Partnership (PPP) experience in transport infrastructure in different countries and economic conditions/ Airport Pavement Management Systems, runway design and maintenance/ Port maintenance and development issues, technology relating to cargo handling, landside access, cruise operations/ Infrastructure Building Information Modelling (I-BIM) / Pavement design and innovative bituminous materials/ Recycling and re-use in road pavements, environmentally sustainable technologies/ Stone pavements, ancient roads and historic railways/ Cementitious stabilization of materials used in the rehabilitation of transportation infrastructure. Transport Systems Sustainable transport and the environment protection including green vehicles/ Urban transport, land use development, spatial and transport planning/ Bicycling, bike, bike-sharing systems, cycling mobility/ Human factor in transport systems/ Intelligent Mobility: emerging technologies to enable the smarter movement of people and goods/Airport landside: access roads, parking facilities, terminal facilities, aircraft apron and the azdjacent taxiway/ Transportation policy, planning and design, modelling and decision making/ Transport economics, finance and pricing issues, optimization problems, equity appraisal/ Road safety impact assessments, road safety audits, the management of road network safety and safety inspections/ Tunnels and underground structures: preventing incidents-accidents mitigating their effects for both people and goods/ Traffic flow characteristics, traffic control devices, work zone traffic control, highway capacity and quality of service/ Track-vehicle interactions in railway systems, capacity analysis of railway networks/ Risk assessment and safety in air and railway transport, reliability aspects/ Maritime transport and inland waterways transport research/ Intermodal freight transport: terminals and logistics.

Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change
Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change

Author: Todd Schenk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1317272633

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Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related. Planning and decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional environments, in which many key issues remain unresolved, including relationships between different actors; funding arrangements; and the sources and procedures for vetting data. These issues are particularly acute at this juncture, as climate adaptation moves from broad planning processes to the management of infrastructure systems. Concrete decisions must be made. Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change draws on case studies of three coastal cities situated within very different governance regimes: neo-corporatist Rotterdam, neo-pluralist Boston and semi-authoritarian Singapore. The book examines how infrastructure managers and other stakeholders grappling with complex and uncertain climate risks are likely to make project-level decisions in practice, and how more effective decision-making can be supported. The differences across governance regimes are currently unaccounted for in adaptation planning, but are crucial as best practices are devised. These lessons are also applicable to infrastructure planning and decision-making in other contexts. This book will be of great interest to scholars of climate change and environmental policy and governance, particularly in the context of infrastructure management.

Improving Transportation Access to the South Boston Seaport District
Improving Transportation Access to the South Boston Seaport District

Author: Zhuyun Gu

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13:

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Boston's Seaport District comprises approximately 1,000 acres of mixed-use residential, commercial and industrial space, which fosters innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship. Development in the area is occurring fast. Projects that have been completed, proposed, or approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority as of March 2014 add 10 million square feet of development. Long-term forecasts for the area estimate that an additional 21 million square feet of development will be constructed in the Seaport District by 2030. The overall objective of this thesis is to explore strategies to ensure the Seaport District will have multimodal transportation access to accommodate future economic development. More specific objectives of the thesis are listed as follows: > Lessen road congestion at specific intersections and major streets. > Optimize Silver Line operations. > Improve local bus service. > Assess and enhance bus-priority and parking policies. Thus, the main goals in this thesis are to improve the mobility, accessibility and sustainability of the Seaport District by providing more and higher quality public transport and discouraging access by private car. The evaluation of the public transport and road networks revealed the key weaknesses and issues in the area. The in-depth analyses of the short-term, medium-term, and long-term conditions then illustrated the potential future problems and proposed solutions to address those problems. It was concluded that operational changes in both the transit and road networks can address the issues raised in the short-term. Capital and operational changes are recommended for the medium-term. In the long-term, significant capital improvements and strict parking policies are proposed in order to accommodate the forecast demand.