Measuring Transportation Network Performance
Analysis and Practice
- 1st Edition - February 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Author: Mahdi Amiripour
- Language: English
Measuring Transportation Network Performance: Analysis and Practice is a comprehensive guide to developing, analysing, and interpreting performance measures for transp… Read more
Description
Description
Measuring Transportation Network Performance: Analysis and Practice is a comprehensive guide to developing, analysing, and interpreting performance measures for transportation networks. It explains the concepts, technical requirements, analytical choices, and practical considerations needed to build an effective network performance measurement system and to understand how transportation networks change over time.
The book examines the major dimensions of network performance across different modes of transport, including travel time, speed, delay, reliability, congestion, flow, connectivity, accessibility, resilience, equity, environmental performance, and safety. Rather than presenting performance measures as isolated indicators, it explains how they should be defined, calculated, interpreted, and combined to answer practical transportation planning and network management questions. Practical examples highlight common analytical challenges, limitations, and errors that can influence the conclusions drawn from transportation data. The book also takes readers through the practical process of network performance measurement. Detailed case studies demonstrate how a performance measurement system can be developed and how multiple measures can be brought together to explain the performance story of a transportation network.
Strongly focused on practical application, the book is written for transportation engineers, planners, analysts, researchers, transport agencies, consultants, and others involved in understanding network performance. It helps readers move beyond producing indicators toward using data to understand network conditions, diagnose problems, evaluate change, and communicate meaningful performance insights that support better planning, operations, and decision making.
The book examines the major dimensions of network performance across different modes of transport, including travel time, speed, delay, reliability, congestion, flow, connectivity, accessibility, resilience, equity, environmental performance, and safety. Rather than presenting performance measures as isolated indicators, it explains how they should be defined, calculated, interpreted, and combined to answer practical transportation planning and network management questions. Practical examples highlight common analytical challenges, limitations, and errors that can influence the conclusions drawn from transportation data. The book also takes readers through the practical process of network performance measurement. Detailed case studies demonstrate how a performance measurement system can be developed and how multiple measures can be brought together to explain the performance story of a transportation network.
Strongly focused on practical application, the book is written for transportation engineers, planners, analysts, researchers, transport agencies, consultants, and others involved in understanding network performance. It helps readers move beyond producing indicators toward using data to understand network conditions, diagnose problems, evaluate change, and communicate meaningful performance insights that support better planning, operations, and decision making.
Key features
Key features
- Provides a comprehensive framework for developing and interpreting transportation network performance measures, including key technical requirements, analytical choices, and implementation challenges
- Combines practical network performance measurement with the statistical, mathematical, and data handling foundations needed to analyse data and interpret results confidently
- Shows how performance measures can be integrated within a unified system, with practical case studies turning data into meaningful network insights
Readership
Readership
Transportation planners and engineers in the industry sector, people in transport departments and consultancies that provide professional services to the public sector
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Measuring Network Performance
2. Network Performance Measures Categories
3. Modal Network Performance
4. Processing Transportation Data
5. Network Performance Measurement Regime
2. Network Performance Measures Categories
3. Modal Network Performance
4. Processing Transportation Data
5. Network Performance Measurement Regime
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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Mahdi Amiripour
Mahdi Amiripour is a highly accomplished Transportation Engineer and Planner. He holds a PhD in Transportation Planning and Engineering and has 15 years of industry experience. His expertise spans across various fields of transportation planning and engineering, including traffic engineering, public transport planning and operation, transportation data analysis, and transportation network design. Throughout his career, he has taken on diverse roles in transportation engineering, public transport operation and planning and transportation data analytics. In addition to his practical experience, Mahdi has made academic contributions with several published papers to his name. Mahdi is currently working in Auckland Transport as Principal Transportation Engineer and Lead Transportation Network Analyst.
Affiliations and expertise
Network Performance and Analytics Manager, Auckland, New Zealand