Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide

This book on road traffic congestion in cities and suburbs describes congestion problems and shows how they can be relieved. The first part (Chapters 1 - 3) shows how congestion reflects transportation technologies and settlement patterns. The second part (Chapters 4 - 13) describes the causes, characteristics, and consequences of congestion. The third part (Chapters 14 - 23) presents various relief strategies - including supply adaptation and demand mitigation - for nonrecurring and recurring congestion. The last part (Chapter 24) gives general guidelines for congestion relief and provides a general outlook for the future.
The book will be useful for a wide audience - including students, practitioners and researchers in a variety of professional endeavors: traffic engineers, transportation planners, public transport specialists, city planners, public administrators, and private enterprises that depend on transportation for their activities.

List of contents

Part I Background.- Part II Traffic Congestion Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences.- Part III Congestion Relief Strategies.- Part IV Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: John Falcocchio, John C Falcocchio, John C. Falcocchio, Herbert S Levinson, Herbert S. Levinson
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319151649
• ISBN: 978-3-31-915164-9
• No. of pages: 401
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 27 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 800 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 401 p. 125 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Series: Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic; Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; B, Transportation, engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, complexity, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Management of specific areas, Engineering economy, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering economics, Industrial Management, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Cybernetics & systems theory, Applied Dynamical Systems, Computational complexity, Cybernetics and systems theory, Highway and traffic engineering