Seeing the Future: Changing Highway Engineering Practice Over the Next 10 Years
The computer age is here, and the more a highway engineer knows about computers, the better. This really symbolizes the direction highway engineers are headed - into a high-tech world...
Design Implications for Concrete Pavements from LTPP Analyses
Among the original objectives of the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) study of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) were the evaluation of existing design methods for pavements,...
Wetland Conservation Plans as Contexts for Transportation Planning
Construction of major, new roadways, particularly in metropolitan areas, initiates subsidiary affects that impact the environment in a variety of ways and increasingly over time. Not the...
SNCF High-Speed Trains: 15 Years of Design, 13 TGV Generations
Less than ten years after the first high-speed revenue service, SNCF has just placed an order for a third generation of TGV rolling stock: the double-deck TGV. Between two generations,...
Real Time Public Transport Information Systems in
The objective of this work is to demonstrate the use of Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) in a multimodal transport environment. The focus of the work is on the integration of ATT methods...
DART'S ASAP EIS
An environmental impact statement that takes several years to complete can demoralize the staffers behind a transportation project and reduce public support for the effort. In a hurry...
Ground Penetrating Radar: Images of Subsurface Characteristics
Ground penetrating radar has not been widely used for subsurface exploration in Civil Engineering. This paper describes the experimental setup used to explore ground penetrating radar...
Resin Modified Pavement in Airfield Applications
The resin modified pavement (RMP) is a composite paving material that combines the flexible characteristics of an asphalt concrete (AC) material with the durability of a portland cement...
Evaluation of Runway Roughness for Fighter Jets
A new roughness evaluation procedure is needed, especially, when dealing with modern fighter jets. To this end, a comprehensive pilot attitude survey was conducted in Israel in order to...
An Introduction to APM Systems and Applications
An Automated People Mover (APM) is an advanced transportation system in which automated driveless vehicles operate on fixed guideways in exclusive rights-of-way. These differ from other...
Reflections on the New Systems Study Project
1993 marks the 25th anniversary of the New Systems Study Project. This project produced a report from President Johnson to the Congress entitled....
The Development of Public Transport Systems for Urban Areas and the Relation with People Movers
The development of new public transport concepts for urban areas has to be related to problems in this field. Therefore on the one hand in a systematic way an inventory is made of the...
A Vision for 21st Century Guided Transit
The design characteristics for 21st century fixed guideway transit are discussed. A system concept responsive to passengers' needs is envisioned. The concept ignores traditional boundaries...
The Fundamental Gap in Urban Transportation
This is not a technical paper. It is perspective paper, designed to detail the failure of current urban transportation strategies and call for new thinking and action responsive to the...
Comparative Analysis of Different Systems for a New Rail Line in Copenhagen, Denmark
A new Mass Transit System is to be built in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Copenhagen Public Bus Company, HT, and the Danish State Railways, DSB, have each carried out feasibility studies. Conventional...
Technological Innovations: Opportunities to Reduce Costs
This paper presents a comparative study of an automatic dedicated single track people mover and an automatic dedicated double track people mover. The study examined both `system' and infrastructure...
Integrating Waiting Time in the Design of a Transportation System for Short to Intermediate Distances
This paper addresses passenger perceptions of short to medium distance public transportation systems. The concept of the weighted total transportation time (WTTT) is introduced, integrating...
A Public Transport System Based on Light Electric Cars
This paper presents the concept under development in France of a novel transportation system based on fleet of small public cars under supervision from a central computer. These public...
Concept of a Polycentric Metropolitan Area with Automated People-Movers
The general equation of mobility is used to understand the development of urban systems. Using iterative methods it is shown that the town planning criterion used currently gives rise...
Intermodal Transit Station Computer Simulation Model
The specifications and features of an Intermodal Transit Station simulation model are discussed, including train schedule data base preparation, ticketing and baggage claim processing,...
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