Many Canadians say that British Columbia is the zaniest political province. It's too diverse, too polarised -- geographically, demographically and ...

Public health is now considering road safety as a major factor to improve morbidity and mortality but the health community is poorly educated regar...

There are several different definitions of smart cities based on the various characteristics related to the adjective Smart and the noun City. The ...

This book provides an overview of the federal role in surface transportation and the goals and structures of federal programs. Since federal financ...

The omnipresent global economic crisis has had a particularly dramatic effect on the global automotive industry. It has increased the need for a 3r...

Urban sprawl has radically transformed Southern European landscapes. Nowadays, sprawl is a major benefiting factor in the daily lives of thousands ...

Since first emerging in the 1990s, the concept of a "dependence" on the motorcar has gradually gained currency among theorists and practitioners. T...

The U.S. Department of Transportation released results from an unprecedented ten-month study of potential electronic causes of unintended accelerat...

Marketable permits (or quotas) for emissions of pollutants have proven their effectiveness in controlling sulphur dioxide emissions by U.S. power p...

Traffic accidents (TAs) represent a significant public health issue and are associated with behavioral factors, vehicles safeties and conditions of...

Entering the 21st century, the Nation's transportation system has matured; it only expands its infrastructure by a fraction of a percentage each ye...

Much of recurring congestion is due to physical bottlenecks -- potentially correctable points on the highway system where traffic flow is restricte...

Many Americans spend frustrating hours each year stuck in congested traffic, a situation that costs the country billions of dollars annually and in...

The evidence suggests that international jurisdictions which have made the most progress in reducing human trauma (fatalities and injuries) from ro...

This book presents an investigation into some of the most common causes that experts believe are responsible for traffic accidents and vehicle cras...

Every weekday in the United States more than 7 million people board a rail transit vehicle. Rail transit is considered one of the safest modes of t...

Public transit systems, which receive funding from the federal government, are vulnerable to catastrophic events, as demonstrated by the impact Hur...

Book & CD-ROM. The failure of federal highway user taxes and fees to provide sufficient revenues to support even baseline surface transportatio...

Transportation infrastructure has a significant meaning for the economic growth, the mobility of labour, the opportunities for tendering transport ...

The nation's transportation and water infrastructures play a vital role in the economy. Private commercial activities and the daily lives of indivi...

This important book focuses on passenger and freight transportation modes: policy analysis, formulation and evaluation; planning; interaction with ...

Vehicles carrying objects that are not properly secured pose a safety risk on our nation's roadways. Debris that falls from a vehicle can collide w...

After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Congress passed and the President signed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act into law, w...

As the U.S. population ages, access to safe and reliable transportation alternatives is critical to helping older adults remain in their homes as l...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is the federal agency primarily responsible for safety in the rail industry. FRA's safety programs were l...

The ability of our nation's transportation system to provide for and maintain the efficient movement of freight is important to the continuing econ...

Aircraft and automobile manufacturing are considered by many to be the technological backbones of the U.S. manufacturing base. As the Obama Adminis...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One option...

Policy-makers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One optio...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One option...

Policy-makers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One optio...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One option...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One option...

Congress is considering legislation to strengthen federal regulation of auto safety, in response to hundreds of reported accidents, and more than 5...

The relationship between human beings and the urban environment is a topic increasing in relevance. Most of the people in the world live in an urba...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the strategies, management and impacts of urban development. Topics included in ...

One of the issues of urban development and urban lifestyle, which can be studied from the sea to space, has posed important challenges for humaniti...

Urban development in sub-Saharan Africa has posed more challenges in recent decades, shifting the focus from rural poverty to urbanised poverty. Be...

Recent research has demonstrated how gentrification and urban redevelopment can serve to promote and exacerbate socio-spatial stigmatisation direct...

Urban planning professionals around the globe are confronted with a multitude of challenges and problems as a result of economic, environmental and...

Urban sustainability and governance in relation to housing trends and policies is the focus of this book written by leading Nordic and Baltic housi...

Text in German. Despite the wide variety of publications about urban development, there has long been a lack of a full and coherent presentation of...

Urbanization refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically,...

The Chinese government incorporated tourism and urbanisation as a key component for economic and social development in the Five-Year National Plan....

This book looks at one of the most serious types of highway accidents—collisions involving vehicles traveling the wrong way on high-speed divided h...