This is a comprehensive, problem-solving engineering guide on the strategic planning, development, and maintenance of public and private transportation systems. Covering all modes of transportation on land, air, and water, the Handbook shows how to solve specific problems, such as facility improvement, cost reduction, or operations optimization at local, regional, national, and international levels. * Extensive sections on road construction and maintenance, bridge construction and repair, and mass transit systems * Examines airline traffic control systems, airline schedule planning, and airline ground operation * Covers marine, rail, and freight transportation parking management system, citation management system, freeway managers, maximum green time, new transportation managers, overhead guide signs, driver population factor, marine transportation system, shortsea shipping, minimum green time, most demanding airplane, taxilane centerline, transportation hazard analysis, heavy rail rapid transit, equivalent annual departures, switch enhancer, transit signal priority, dynamic message signs, effective green time, transit management center, grade adjustment factor, maximum discharge flow, modal split analysis, ballast particles, basic freeway segments.
