"Transportation Systems Analysis and Assessment" ed. by Stefano De Luca, Roberta Di Pace, Boban Djordjevic

The aim of this book is to present a general overview on some of the main challenges that transportation planners and decision makers are faced with. The book addresses different topics that range from user's behavior to travel demand simulation, from supply chain to the railway infrastructure capacity, from traffic safety issues to Life Cycle Assessment, and to strategies to make the transportation system more sustainable.

The transportation system is the backbone of any social and economic system, and is also a very complex system in which users, transport means, technologies, services, and infrastructures have to cooperate with each other to achieve common and unique goals.


Contents
1.A Critical Review on Population Synthesis for Activity- and Agent-Based Transportation Models
2.Approaches for Modelling User’s Acceptance of Innovative Transportation Technologies and Systems
3.Third-Party Logistics
4.Railway Infrastructure Capacity in the Open Access Condition: Case Studies on SŽDC and ŽSR Networks
5.Integrated Life Cycle Economic and Environmental Impact Assessment for Transportation Infrastructure: A Review
6.Energy Efficiency Management: State of the Art and Improvement Potential Analysis with Regard to Cargo Transport by Air and Rail
7.The Possible Role of Large-Scale Sewage Plants in Local Transport
8.Analytical Assessment of Effective Maintenance Operations on At-Grade Unsignalized Intersections
9.A Multitiered Holistic Approach to Traffic Safety: Educating Children, Novice Teen Drivers and Parents, and Crash Investigators to Reduce Roadway Crashes - An Eight-Year Introspective Project
10.Influence of Tribological Parameters on the Railway Wheel Derailment