Transporting Visions
| Author | : Jennifer L. Roberts |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2014-01-17 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520251849 |
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
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Mobility First
| Author | : Sam Staley |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.
Changing Lanes
| Author | : Joseph F. DiMento |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0262018586 |
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects -- with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.
A Vision of Future Space Transportation
| Author | : Tim McElyea |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781896522937 |
The glorious Space Age has come and gone. So what's next now? This book is a guide of future space transportation concepts. From Earth-to-Orbit to in-space transportation, you will sample what is being considered and get an easy-to -understand explanation of what spacecraft will do and how it will work.
Expanded Visions
| Author | : Arnd Schneider |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Art and anthropology |
| ISBN | : 9780367253684 |
Expanded visions -- Experimenting with film, art and ethnography: Oppitz, Downey, Lockhart -- Rethinking anthropological researh and representation through experimental film -- Stills that move: photohilm and anthropology -- On the set of a cinema movie in a Mapuche reservation -- A black box for participatory cinema: movie making with "neighbors" in Saladillo, Argentina -- An anthropology of abandon: art--ethnography in the films of Cyrill Lachauer -- Can film restitute? Expanded moving image visions for museum objects in the times of decolony.
Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems
| Author | : Robert P. Loce |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2017-03-20 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118971647 |
Acts as single source reference providing readers with an overview of how computer vision can contribute to the different applications in the field of road transportation This book presents a survey of computer vision techniques related to three key broad problems in the roadway transportation domain: safety, efficiency, and law enforcement. The individual chapters present significant applications within those problem domains, each presented in a tutorial manner, describing the motivation for and benefits of the application, and a description of the state of the art. Key features: Surveys the applications of computer vision techniques to road transportation system for the purposes of improving safety and efficiency and to assist law enforcement. Offers a timely discussion as computer vision is reaching a point of being useful in the field of transportation systems. Available as an enhanced eBook with video demonstrations to further explain the concepts discussed in the book, as well as links to publically available software and data sets for testing and algorithm development. The book will benefit the many researchers, engineers and practitioners of computer vision, digital imaging, automotive and civil engineering working in intelligent transportation systems. Given the breadth of topics covered, the text will present the reader with new and yet unconceived possibilities for application within their communities.
Road to Nowhere
| Author | : Paris Marx |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2022-07-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1839765887 |
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous. As Paris Marx shows, these technological visions are a threat to our ideas of what a society should be. Electric cars are not a silver bullet for sustainability, and autonomous vehicles won’t guarantee road safety. There will not be underground tunnels to eliminate traffic congestion, and micromobility services will not replace car travel any sooner than we will see the arrival of the long-awaited flying car. In response, Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organizing transportation systems that considers the needs of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people. The book argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we design and live in our future cities. We must create streets that allow for social interaction and conviviality. We need reasons to get out of our cars and to use public means of transit determined by community needs rather than algorithmic control. Such decisions should be guided by the search for quality of life rather than for profit.
Visions of Seaside
| Author | : Dhiru A. Thadani |
| Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
| Total Pages | : 608 |
| Release | : 2013-09-03 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0847841537 |
Time magazine noted that Seaside "could be the most astonishing design achievement of its era…." Visions of Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation’s first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward over the next twenty-five to fifty years. Among the many contributors are Deborah Berke, Andrés Duany, Steven Holl, Léon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Aldo Rossi, and Robert A. M. Stern.
Securing the Future of U.S. Air Transportation
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 2003-12-18 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780309090698 |
As recently as the summer of 2001, many travelers were dreading air transportation because of extensive delays associated with undercapacity of the system. That all changed on 9/11, and demand for air transportation has not yet returned to peak levels. Most U.S. airlines continue to struggle for survival, and some have filed for bankruptcy. The situation makes it difficult to argue that strong action is urgently needed to avert a crisis of undercapacity in the air transportation system. This report assesses the visions and goals for U.S. civil aviation and technology goals for the year 2050.
