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Books in Transportation policy and practice

  • Road Safety for Practitioners

    • 1st Edition
    • Luis Montoro + 1 more
    • English
    Road Safety for Practitioners offers a clear and applied overview of essential road safety topics designed for professionals involved in road safety promotion, training, and implementation. This manual bridges gaps in existing literature by providing an accessible yet rigorous perspective on the causes, consequences, and prevention of road crashes, along with insights into new vehicle technologies and sustainability concerns. The book comprehensively covers decision-making processes, vulnerable road users, risk factors such as distractions and fatigue, vehicle safety systems, ecological driving, and emergency response. Its detailed table of contents addresses both foundational knowledge and emerging challenges, including advanced driver assistance systems, propulsion technologies, and future policy outlooks, making it a valuable tool for practitioners seeking a broad yet practical understanding. This resource benefits transport planners, policymakers, traffic instructors, road safety consultants, law enforcement officials, mobility analysts, and industrial stakeholders integrating safety training. Additionally, it serves researchers in road safety fields. Written in accessible language without requiring prior specialization, it supports effective application and dissemination of road safety knowledge across diverse contexts.

  • From Urban Air Mobility to the Low-Altitude Economy

    Concepts, Confluence, and Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • Xiaoqian Sun + 2 more
    • English
    From Urban Air Mobility to the Low-Altitude Economy: Concepts, Confluence, and Challenges offers a rigorous overview of the emerging low-altitude economy, focusing on the scientific, technological, and regulatory aspects of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This volume synthesizes cutting-edge research and industry advancements to illuminate the transformative potential of autonomous aerial vehicles in urban transportation and logistics. It uniquely addresses the broader economic, environmental, and infrastructural implications of the low-altitude economy beyond traditional UAM perspectives. The book is organized into four parts, beginning with foundational concepts of UAM and the low-altitude economy, followed by integration strategies, safety, and emerging technologies. It then presents industry experiences and case studies covering cargo, passenger transport, emergency services, environmental surveillance, military operations, and more. The final section discusses challenges in transitioning to the low-altitude economy, including factors such as technological, regulatory, economic, social, and environmental. This resource benefits aviation industry professionals, urban planners, and transportation engineers seeking to integrate eVTOL and UAM systems. Aerospace engineers and sustainability experts gain insights into technological innovations and environmental considerations. Academic researchers and graduate students in aerospace engineering, computer science, and data science will find comprehensive knowledge on the evolving urban air mobility landscape and its economic impacts.

  • Net-Zero Transit

    The Future of Eco-Friendly Transportation
    • 1st Edition
    • Paul C. Okonkwo + 2 more
    • English
    Net-Zero Transit: The Future of Eco-Friendly Transportation thoroughly examines the possible future of environmentally friendly transportation, presenting creative approaches and tactics to attain a transit sector with no net emissions. The book explores the convergence of technology, politics, and consumer behavior to provide a comprehensive perspective on achieving environmentally friendly transportation worldwide. The authors illustrate the practicality and advantages of adopting environmentally friendly transportation systems through the examination of real-life examples and the analysis of data.The authors offer practical assistance for establishing sustainable practices in the transit sector by emphasizing successful efforts and innovative solutions. In addition, they provide valuable perspectives on possible obstacles and hurdles that may occur throughout the shift towards achieving net-zero emissions, as well as suggestions for effectively addressing and surmounting them. It uses theoretical analysis and case studies to explore the benefits and challenges of transitioning to a zero-net-carbon transportation system. The economic, social, and environmental impacts of transitioning to net-zero transit are discussed, including the role of government policies, public-private partnerships, and community engagement. The analytical framework of this book encompasses several scenarios, such as the implementation of carbon policy, carbon pricing, carbon offset programs, climate-conscious car-flight-marine pooling, climate-conscious car-flight-marine green gridlock, pedal-walking power progress, and future-proof transportation. It employs real historical datasets from different countries and regions across the globe to forecast future emissions from various transportation modes using a range of machine learning techniques.This book is an invaluable resource for legislators, industry experts, and individuals seeking to promote environmentally friendly transportation solutions and contribute positively to the environment. Its detailed analysis offers actionable insights to policymakers and stakeholders in the transportation industry, enabling them to make well-informed decisions regarding measures to reduce emissions.

  • Blockchain and Supply Chain Management

    • 2nd Edition
    • Nir Kshetri
    • English
    Blockchain and Supply Chain Management, Second Edition combines discussions of blockchain and supply chains, linking technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, satellite imagery, and machine vision. The book examines blockchain’s basic concepts, relevant theories, and its roles in meeting key supply chain objectives. The book addresses problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration. The book is balanced between blockchain and supply chain application and theory, covering the latest technological, organizational and regulatory developments in blockchain from a supply chain perspective.The book discusses the opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chain policy, along with legal and ethical implications. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with a new chapter on the luxury good industry supply chains, as well as updated data and statistics; new examples, case studies, and In-Focus boxes; and added regularly updates throughout the book.As supply chain management faces massive disruption with the dynamic changes in global trade, the impact of Covid-19, and technological innovation, scholars, students, and researchers, as well as practitioners such as analysts, consultants, executives, engineers, and managers, will find this a valuable resource for addressing problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration.

  • Practical Aviation Security

    Predicting and Preventing Future Threats
    • 4th Edition
    • Jeffrey C. Price + 1 more
    • English
    Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Fourth Edition is a guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today, as well as the cutting-edge technologies that are shaping the future. Using case studies and practical security measures now in use at airports worldwide, readers learn the effective methods and fundamental principles involved in designing and implementing a security system. This expanded fourth edition covers new threats and technologies to reflect the latest knowledge in the field from the past decade.This book will be ideal for airport, airline, charter, government, and others with aviation security responsibilities to better implement their security programs, evaluate the ever-changing risk environment, and respond appropriately and responsibly.

  • International Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to COVID-19

    • 1st Edition
    • Takeru Shibayama + 1 more
    • English
    International Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to COVID-19Internationa... Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to COVID-19 examines the pandemic response of transport policymakers around the world and analyzes what can be learned to prepare for the next epidemic—or any other critical event that threatens transportation services. It combines theoretical analysis with a compendium of country-focused case studies to provide scientific evidence and decision-making support for the actions that each transportation official must make going forward.This book begins with Part 1, a thematic and comparative section on response and recovery efforts. It provides insights into topics such as mitigation strategies and preparedness of the public transport sector to epidemics prior to COVID-19; responses during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery from it; public transport services in urban and rural areas during the pandemic; and social (or physical) distancing and any other protective on-board measures. Part 2 then offers a set of international case studies, wherein various authors from different countries review their governments’ and operators' responses. Each chapter is guided by a set of common research questions based on disaster mitigation theory. Part 3 then focuses on learnings and comparative analysis from the COVID-19 pandemic for future epidemic mitigation strategies in the public transport sector.Governments, public transport authorities and operators, as well as students and researchers will learn what has and has not worked well during the COVID-19 pandemic. These insights will help them to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover from unexpected disruptive events like pandemics in the future.

  • Securing Integrated Transportation Networks

    • 1st Edition
    • Gary A. Gordon + 1 more
    • English
    Securing Integrated Transportation Networks provides a comprehensive look at multimodal transportation security—its dynamics, evolving threats, and technology advances that enhance operational security and related infrastructure protection and hardening, as well as the regulatory environment. As threats are evolving, so is the technology used in enhancing transportation security, operational procedures, and regulations. This book addresses this dynamic evolution of transportation security, serving as a primary reference for information on the range of activities and components involved in transportation security. It covers the myriad parts involved in the relationship between, and among, logistics, the supply chains and transportation entities, and more.In addition, it looks at operations, infrastructure, equipment, laws and regulations, policies and procedures, and risk focused on transportation safety and security by mode and transportation in general. Cooperation and partnering with and among the industry, to include transportation providers and government agencies, is the way forward to ensure that security is maintained and keeps pace with the evolving threat and regulatory landscape.

  • Managing Airport Corporate Performance

    Leveraging Business Intelligence and Sustainable Transition
    • 1st Edition
    • Dimitrios J. Dimitriou + 2 more
    • English
    Managing Airport Corporate Performance: Leveraging Business Intelligence and Sustainable Transition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that explores the integration of business intelligence (BI) techniques in management practices of airport operators. The book sheds light on how BI can play a pivotal role in enhancing corporate performance, strategic decision-making, and operational efficiency within the aviation industry. It uniquely explores the relationship between intelligent and effective management practices in airport operations and the achievement of corporate performance objectives in the aviation industry.This book showcases the practical applications of BI in the airport operators' context by providing a contemporary and holistic review of the strategies, best practices, and challenges involved in managing airport operations based on BI to drive corporate performance. Additionally, it recognizes the increasing focus on sustainability and the need for airport operators to align their operations with environmental considerations, corporate social responsibility, and economic viability.

  • Supply and Demand Management in Ride-Sourcing Markets

    • 1st Edition
    • Jintao Ke + 3 more
    • English
    Supply and Demand Management in Ride-Sourcing Markets offers a fundamental modeling framework for characterizing ride-sourcing markets by spelling out the complex relationships among key endogenous and exogenous variables in the markets. This book establishes several economic models that can approximate matching frictions between drivers and passengers, describes the equilibrium state of ride-sourcing markets, and more. Based on these models, the book develops an optimum strategy (in terms of trip fare, wage and/or matching) that maximizes platform profit. While the best social optimum solution (for maximizing the social welfare) is generally unsustainable, this book provides options governments can use to encourage second-best solutions. In addition, the book's authors establish models to analyze ride-pooling services, with traffic congestion externalities incorporated into models to see how both new platforms and government designs can optimize operating strategies in response to the level of traffic congestion.

  • Transportation Amid Pandemics

    Lessons Learned from COVID-19
    • 1st Edition
    • Junyi Zhang + 1 more
    • English
    Transportation Amid Pandemics: Practices and Policies is the first reference on pandemics (especially COVID-19) in the context of transport, logistics, and supply chains. This book investigates the relationships between pandemics and transport and evaluates impacts of COVID-19 and effects of policy responses to address them. It explores how to recover from pandemics, reveals governance for immediate policy responses and future innovations, suggests strategies for post-pandemic sustainable and resilient development, shares lessons of COVID-19 policymaking across countries, and discusses how to transform transport systems for a better future. Transportation Amid Pandemics offers transport researchers and policymakers the scientific evidence they need to support their decisions and solutions against pandemics. "Curiosity and research brought me to discover an excellent handbook covering the relations between COVID 19 and the transport reality. It is called "Transportation amid Pandemics –Lessons Learned from COVID-19" and has been published this year. 2022 happens to be the year of the 50th anniversary of the first report to The Club of Rome "The Limits to Growth". The new book covers evidences from all over the world, and offers policy recommendations from a great variety of perspectives". Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker