Traffic congestion of streets and roads constitutes a critical problem which is aggravated by the rise in the number of vehicles and by greater urbanization. The slow pace in the development of new highways and roads and public opposition to the widening of existing streets in some locations has forced the city managers to optimally use the existing infrastructures in order to effectively manag...

The real title of many history books is actually the subtitle, while colorful phrase before colon merely decorative. Examples that come to mind include Blood in Water, Our Beloved Kin, and What Hath God Wrought, titles barely hint at what lies between book covers. Not so with Richard DeLuca's Paved Roads Public Money: Connecticut Transportation Age Internal Combustion. This does deal broadly tr...

In China, traffic accident data is published annually by the Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security [1]. Accidents without casualties are usually not included. To gain a complete understanding and reliable insight of Shanghai traffic accidents, the project team collected the original accidents records on 192 Shanghai roads between 1-1-2009 and 12-31-2009. The o...

Shipping hazardous material (hazmat) places the public at risk. People who live or work near roads commonly traveled by hazmat trucks endure the greatest risk. Careful selection of roads used for a hazmat shipment can reduce the population at risk. On the other hand, a least time route will often consist of urban interstate, thus placing many people in harms way. Route selection is therefore th...

INTRODUCTION Rural Road connectivity is a key component of rural development, since it promotes access to economic and social services, thereby generating increased agricultural productivity, non-agriculture employment as well as non-agricultural productivity, which in turn expands rural growth opportunities and real income through which poverty can be reduced. A study (Fan et al. 1999) carried...

Transport modelling has made a rare intrusion into the attention of the media and the public due to inaccuracies in recent projections done for toll roads in Australia. Generally the modelling of toll roads in Australia has been fairly poor, with many roads attracting only half of their projected volumes and some roads, such as Brisbane's Clem 7, attracting much less. However this is not a uniq...