Choice Review

This handbook offers an excellent introduction to a variety of topics in transportation planning, traffic engineering, traffic control, design, and public transit packed into 39 chapters. Chapters cover transport planning, traffic reduction, efficiency in planning, economics, traffic congestion, induced travel and user benefits, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies, infrastructure capacity, environmental protection, economic development and transportation, bus services, biking and walking, specialized transport, cross-border traffic, parking, vehicle design standards, junction design, urban traffic flow, traffic control devices, route guidance, traffic signal control, railway scheduling, seaport terminal management, and air traffic control systems. Each chapter also includes an extensive list of reference material. Many of the authors are from Europe, and they share their experience to make this book an invaluable resource for North American graduate students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners. W. J. Sproule Michigan Technological University