Guidebook for Integrating Freight Into Transportation Planning and Project Selection Processes

Guidebook for Integrating Freight Into Transportation Planning and Project Selection Processes
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2007
Genre: Freight and freightage
ISBN: 0309099102

Explores a framework for incorporating freight needs for all modes into transportation planning and priority programming by state, regional, metropolitan, local, and special transportation agencies. The report covers technical issues, organizational suggestions, and communication requirements of freight planning and programming. A project final report that describes the case studies used to help develop the guidebook and other resources used in the guidebook is available as NCHRP Web-Only. Document 112.

Urban Transportation Planning

Urban Transportation Planning
Author: Roger Creighton
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1970
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Emphasizes the need for close coordination between transportation and land use planning, treats basic problems and policy issues of transportation, and describes the critical steps in the urban transportation planning process. Draws material from first-hand experience as assistant director of Chicago Area Transportation Study, and as director of the long-range planning program mounted by New York State for the six largest upstate metropolitan areas.

Rail planning manual

Rail planning manual
Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 762
Release: 1976
Genre: Railroads and state
ISBN:

Railway Transport Planning and Manageme

Railway Transport Planning and Manageme
Author: Stefano de Luca
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1838806911

Railway engineering is facing different and complex challenges due to the growing demand for travel, new technologies, and new mobility paradigms. All these issues require a clear understanding of the existing technologies, and it is crucial to identify the real opportunities that the current technological revolution may pose. As railway transportation planning processes change and pursue a multi-objective vision, diagnostic and maintenance issues are becoming even more crucial for overall system performances and alternative fuel solutions.