Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

Author: Coleman O'Flaherty

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1136352376

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'Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering' is a comprehensive textbook on the relevant principles and practice. It includes sections on transport policy and planning, traffic surveys and accident investigation, road design for capacity and safety, and traffic management. Clearly written and illustrated, the book is ideal reading for students of transport, transport planning, traffic engineering and road design.


Planning and Design of Engineering Systems

Planning and Design of Engineering Systems

Author: Graeme Dandy

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1138031925

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This newly updated book offers a comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering work, taking a rigorous but common sense approach to the solution of engineering problems. The text follows the planning, modelling and design phases of engineering projects through to implementation or construction, explaining the conceptual framework for undertaking projects, and then providing a range of techniques and tools for solutions. It focuses on engineering design and problem solving, but also involves economic, environmental, social and ethical considerations. This third edition expands significantly on the economic evaluation of projects and also includes a new section on intractable problems and systems, involving a discussion of wicked problems and soft systems methodology as well as the approaches to software development. Further developments include an array of additional interest boxes, worked examples, problems and up-to date references. Case studies and real-world examples are used to illustrate the role of the engineer and especially the methods employed in engineering practice. The examples are drawn particularly from the fields of civil and environmental engineering, but the approaches and techniques are more widely applicable to other branches of engineering. The book is aimed at first-year engineering students, but contains material to suit more advanced undergraduates. It also functions as a professional handbook, covering some of the fundamentals of engineering planning and design in detail.


Railway Planning, Management, and Engineering

Railway Planning, Management, and Engineering

Author: V Profillidis

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-09-05

Total Pages: 695

ISBN-13: 100062904X

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In a rapidly changing world, with increasing competition in all sectors of transportation, railways are currently restructuring their planning, management, and technology. As commercial and pricing policies change and new methods of organization are introduced, a more entrepreneurial spirit is required. At the same time, new high-speed tracks are being constructed and old tracks are being renewed, magnetic levitation trains are in operation, hyperloop systems are being planned, high-comfort rolling stock vehicles are being introduced, logistics and combined transport are being developed. Awareness of environmental issues and the search for greater safety attribute a new role to the railways within the transportation system. Meanwhile, methods of analysis have evolved significantly, principally due to computer applications, the internet revolution, satellite technologies, and artificial intelligence, all of which offer new ways of thinking about and addressing old problems. Railway Planning, Management, and Engineering aims to fulfill the need for a new scientific approach for railways. It is intended to be of use to railway planners, managers, economists, engineers, and students in engineering, transportation, economics, and management. The book is divided into three parts, which deal successively with planning, management, track, rolling stock, safety, and the environment.


Civil Engineering And Urban Planning - Proceedings Of The 5th International Conference On Civil Engineering And Urban Planning (Ceup2016)

Civil Engineering And Urban Planning - Proceedings Of The 5th International Conference On Civil Engineering And Urban Planning (Ceup2016)

Author: Ahmed Mebarki

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-06-02

Total Pages: 1378

ISBN-13: 9813225246

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The 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP2016) was held in Xi'an, China on August 23 - 26, 2016. CEUP2016 gathered outstanding scientists and researchers worldwide to exchange and discuss new findings in civil engineering and urban planning associated with transportation and environmental topics. The conference program committee is also greatly honored to have four renowned experts for taking time off to present their keynotes to the conference.The conference had received a total of 410 submissions, which after peer review by the Technical Program Committee, only 108 were selected to be included in this conference proceedings, which covers Architecture and Urban Planning; Civil Engineering and Transportation Engineering.


Computer Systems Engineering Management

Computer Systems Engineering Management

Author: Robert S. Alford

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 135108772X

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Computer Systems Engineering Management provides a superb guide to the overall effort of computer systemsbridge building. It explains what to do before you get to the river, how to organise your work force, how to manage the construction, and what do when you finally reach the opposite shore. It delineates practical approaches to real-world development issues and problems presents many examples and case histories and explains techniques that apply to everything from microprocessors to mainframes and from person computer applications to extremely sophisticated systems


Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions

Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0309477328

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The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include projectiles, bombs, rockets, landmines, and missiles. Open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of these munitions has been a common disposal practice for decades, although it has decreased significantly since 2011. OB/OD is relatively quick, procedurally straightforward, and inexpensive. However, the downside of OB and OD is that they release contaminants from the operation directly into the environment. Over time, a number of technology alternatives to OB/OD have become available and more are in research and development. Alternative technologies generally involve some type of contained destruction of the energetic materials, including contained burning or contained detonation as well as contained methods that forego combustion or detonation. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions reviews the current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile and analyzes existing and emerging disposal, treatment, and reuse technologies. This report identifies and evaluates any barriers to full-scale deployment of alternatives to OB/OD or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and provides recommendations to overcome such barriers.


Wheeling through Toronto

Wheeling through Toronto

Author: Albert Koehl

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 148754958X

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Highlighting an important yet often ignored part of Toronto’s transportation story, Wheeling through Toronto chronicles the history of the bicycle and reveals a way forward for a world in climate crisis. Throughout its history in Toronto, the bicycle’s place on the roads and in public esteem has fluctuated wildly: flaunted as fashionable, disparaged and derided, rescued from looming obscurity, and promoted as a way to respond to the challenges of the day. What is it about the simple bicycle that it can be so loved by some yet despised and detested by others? Wheeling through Toronto offers a 130-year ride from the 1890s to the present to help answer this question. Albert Koehl, a Toronto lawyer and leading cycling advocate, chronicles the tumultuous history of this mode of transportation from the bicycle craze at the turn of the century, to the rise of the car and the motorway in the 1950s, to the intensifying cry for active transportation in the 1990s and into pandemic times. In an era of catastrophic climate events, Wheeling through Toronto highlights how the bicycle should be celebrated not only as hope for the future, but also for its affordability, for its contribution to clean and healthy mobility, and because it brings happiness and joy to so many. Drawing on archival materials, newspapers, and personal interviews, and full of fascinating vignettes, this book presents the story of how we got here and what Torontonians need to know as we pedal forward.


Case Digest on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

Case Digest on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

Author: Ashish Makhija

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-07-20

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13: 9390077788

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This book consolidates the judgments and orders passed by the Supreme Court, High Courts across India and the Tribunal including Appellate Tribunal during January 2019 - December 2019 in the form of a digest based on qualitative research. The cases have been presented in a comprehensible manner under each provision giving the essence of the judgment in a concise manner. The insolvency practitioners, judicial officers, regulators and other stakeholders will find the IBC digest extremely useful in their endeavours. Key features Covers gist of more than 700 judgements and orders Cover judgements and orders passed during January 2019 - December 2019 For easy reference, table of cases arranged: – Section-wise – Alphabet-wise – Authority-wise Conclusive heading/topic allocated to all cases digested Includes updated text of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 with footnotes