Product Description: These books provide a range of opinions on a social issue; each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives, e.g., eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, to illuminate the issue...read more

Product Description: Book by

Product Description: Transportation infrastructure is one of the most pressing issues for planners and communities today. In the short term, stimulus funding is being used to create jobs and fix critical systems; in the long run, communities are struggling to determine how best to restructure transport networks to encourage better land use and to foster reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions...read more

Product Description: More than ever, today’s economy depends on the capacity of our transportation infrastructure. Hudson Institute’s recently released book, Mobility: America's Transportation Mess and How to Fix It, explores the threat to economic growth posed by the state of surface transportation financing and management—and offers concrete solutions to improve infrastructure...read more

Product Description: Based on the work of the STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) Focus Group 3, this volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport...read more

Product Description: In the face of skyrocketing gas prices and mind-numbing traffic, commuters' frustrations are at an all-time high. Addressing our nation's seemingly overwhelming transportation woes, Breaking Gridlock looks at the present state of the U...read more

Product Description: GIS data and tools are revolutionizing transportation research and decision making, allowing transportation analysts and professionals to understand and solve complex transportation problems that were previously impossible. Here, Miller and Shaw present a comprehensive discussion of fundamental geographic science and the applications of these principles using GIS and other software tools...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Under a public choice analytical framework, this book applies formal economic measures to the passenger and taxpayer benefits of public transit service in the United States. Approximately 400 local transit budgets have been renewed annually for more than 25 years...read more

Product Description: This text provides a systematic guide describing practical approaches to planning, developing, and implementing successful ITS architectures in regional settings. Based on the principles and methods used to create developed US national ITS architecture, the authors provide readers with a solid understanding of each critical step involved in the regional ITS deployment process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here at the edge of the next century, we think that it is time to reexamine the foundation of procurement practices. The last two decades have presented us with a great number of new methodologies and techniques which improve quality and reduce total cost...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

After a decade-long shift in emphasis in regional transportation planning, steadily impacted by politics and planning commissions, environmental impact studies, and national, state and local legislation, the authors interpret and explain the meaning of the transportation planning process in the United States today. The book focuses on the interrelations between federal legislation, the judicial process and transportation planning, particularly in light of two important landmark federal acts - The Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. The repercussions of these Acts have caused planners throughout the US to be much more circumspect about commitments they include in transportation plans and tr

The book is intended mainly for psychiatrists in training, but will also be found useful by medical students, general practitioners, and practising psychiatrists.* Major new introductory textbook of clinical psychiatry* Up to date* Deals with all teh topics required by teh trainee psychiatrist* Reading lists given for each chapter* Comprehensive* Extensive bibliography* Emphasizes descriptions of syndromes and practical aspects of treatment

Product Description: This book provides the perfect comprehensive introduction to mass transit for anyone interested in transportation planning as a career, as well as for those who simply have a personal interest in the subject area. It is a policy-oriented book that contains some technical material, but avoids in-depth coverage of the electric and mechanical engineering aspects...read more