Substantial federal assistance allowed GM and Chrysler to restructure their costs and improve their financial condition. Through federally-funded r...

HUD has taken steps to promote energy efficiency by providing information, training, and technical assistance, but its efforts have limitations. HU...

Hackney is a district in East London forming about two-thirds of the London Borough of Hackney. Shoreditch is a district in the east end of London ...

Hampstead and Highgate boast some of the most exclusive and expensive addresses in London and artists such as John Constable and George Romney used...

While Congress has been interested in high speed rail (HSR) since the 1960s, the provision of $8 billion for intercity passenger rail projects in t...

The federal government collect revenues from taxes paid by highway users, mostly from those levied on gasoline and diesel fuel, and credits them to...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 37,133 people lost their lives in accidents on U.S. roadways in 2017 1. Th...

Fatalities on U.S. roads now total over 40,000 each year. Future reductions may require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to address new trend...

The Highway Trust Fund is the principal mechanism for funding federal highway and transit programs through receipts from excise taxes charged to hi...

There are various definitions of what constitutes infrastructure, but generally infrastructure refers to the large-scale public systems, services, ...

Cruise ships are the single largest passenger conveyances in the world, with one ship currently in service that can carry more than 8,500 passenger...

This book questions the ethics of government officials' and automobile industry representatives' strategies to promote automobiles over other forms...

During recent past, large scale conversions of forests to other land-uses in developed and developing countries in response to high population grow...

Land use is the human modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. More rece...

Local road practitioners across the country play a critical role in addressing crash risks at the local level and may be able to identify the speci...

Catholic churches in the city of Westminster, Camden, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham.

Underground stations including those by Charles Holden, Charles Walter Clark and Leslie Green.

The idea of designing and building quieter pavements is not new, but in recent years there has been a groundswell of interest in making this a high...

Finding cost-effective options to mitigate recurrent and non-recurrent congestion on freeway facilities is one of the most significant challenges S...

A look at Marylebone including the Landmark Hotel, the Langham Hotel, Marylebone Road and many of Marylebone's mews.

Federal law requires state and local governments to designate a metropolitan planning organisation (MPO) in each urbanised area with a population o...

Trespassing is the leading cause of rail-related fatalities in the United States. A large proportion of these trespasser fatalities are from intent...

This book presents documentation, reflection and critical analysis of two award-winning projects Monash Steps and Stawell Steps. These linked proje...

In 2010 the total economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in the United States was $277 billion. This represents the present value of lifetime econo...

Flight delays have beset the U.S. national airspace system. In 2007, more than one-quarter of all flights either arrived late or were cancelled acr...

The accelerating pace of world urbanisation has been one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century. This development has had gr...

This book deals with new research in the fields of passenger and freight transportation modes: policy analysis, formulation and evaluation; plannin...

The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, is the transformation of the radar-based air traffic control system of today to a satell...

The population of adults 65 and older is the fastest growing demographic in the United States. It is estimated that by 2030, drivers over 65 will r...

The continued growth in travel along congested urban freeway corridors is exceeding the ability of transportation agencies to provide sufficient ro...

Through the New Starts program, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) evaluates and recommends new fixed guideway transit projects for funding u...

Growing demands on the transportation system and constraints on public resources have led to calls for more private sector involvement in the provi...