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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299746903321

Autore

Janić Milan

Titolo

Advanced transport systems : analysis, modeling, and evaluation of performances / / Milan Janic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4471-6287-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 408 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

388

620

624

625.7019

Soggetti

Regional planning

Civil engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Advanced Transport Systems – GENERAL -- 2. Advanced Transport Systems - OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES -- 3. Advanced Transport Systems - OPERATIONS AND ECONOMICS -- 4. Advanced Transport Systems - TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 5. Advanced Transport Systems - INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGIES, OPERATIONS, ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY/POLICY -- 6. Advanced Transport Systems – FUTURE CONCEPTS -- 7. Advanced Transport Systems – CONTRIBUTION TO SUSTAINABILITY.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a systematic analysis, modeling and evaluation of the performance of advanced transport systems. It offers an innovative approach by presenting a multidimensional examination of the performance of advanced transport systems and transport modes, useful for both theoretical and practical purposes. Advanced transport systems for the twenty-first century are characterized by the superiority of one or several of their infrastructural, technical/technological, operational, economic, environmental, social, and policy performances as compared to their conventional counterparts. The advanced transport systems considered include: Bus



Rapid Transit (BRT) and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems in urban area(s), electric and fuel cell passenger cars, high speed tilting trains, High Speed Rail (HSR), Trans Rapid Maglev (TRM), Evacuated Tube Transport system (ETT), advanced commercial subsonic and Supersonic Transport Aircraft (STA), conventionally- and Liquid Hydrogen (LH2)-fuelled commercial air transportation, advanced Air Traffic Control (ATC) technologies and procedures for increasing the airport runway capacity, Underground Freight Transport (UFT) systems in urban area(s), Long Intermodal Freight Train(s) (LIFTs), road mega trucks, large advanced container ships and freight/cargo aircraft, and advanced freight/goods collection distribution networks. This book is intended for postgraduates, researchers, professionals and policy makers working in the transport industry.