Introduction to Transportation Engineering

Transportation is best considered as a socio-technical system, and the different modes are complementary to each other and may be optimally integrated. The textbook covers planning and design as well as system development and serves as a starting point for deeper and detailed work.

General Introduction. Preface. Brief History of Transport Systems. Transportation, Society, Economics and the Environment. II Transportation Planning. Accessibility and Productivity. Transport and Land Use: The Basic Models. User Behaviour. Principles of Network design. Decision Making: Consistent Approaches. Decision Making: A Messy Reality. III Private Transportation. Introduction to Private Transportation Systems. Fundamentals of Traffic Flow. Introduction to Queuing Theory: Application to Transportation Problems. Traffic Parameters and Their Measurement. Capacity and Level of Service Analysis. Traffic Management and Control. Infrastructure for Private Transportation Systems. Evaluation of Private Transportation Systems. V Public Transportation. Public Transport Systems. Planning of Public Transport Services. Planning of Rail Freight Systems, Intermodality. Resource Planning. Vehicles in Public Transport. Railway Infrastructure. Capacity and Operation of Rail Systems. Regulation, Organisation, Marketing. Walking, Cycling, Intermodality. Introduction to Walking, Cycling and Intermodality. Walking. Cycling. Intermodality. Outlook. Sustainability. Urban Development. Technical Prospects. Future Policies. Perspectives of Future Transportation ¿ a Short Summary.