Creating resilient transportation systems : policy, planning and implementation / John Renne, Karl Kim, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Anurag Pande, Brian Wolshon.

By:

Renne, John [author.]

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Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press is an Imprint of Elsevier, 2021Description: xi, 220 pages : illustration, color photos, charts ; 24 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9780128168202 (pbk)

DDC classification:

388.068

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Defining Resilience 3. Multimodal Transportation Systems 4. Engineering and System Design 5. Increasing Transportation Network Resilience 6. Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience: International Perspectives 7. Traveler Adaptation to Transportation Disruptions 8. Measuring and Assessing Resilience 9. Resilience, Automation and Connected Vehicles 10. Overcoming Challenges of the 21st and 22nd Centuries

Summary: "Creating Resilient Transportation Systems: Policy, Planning and Implementation demonstrates how the transportation sector is a leading producer of carbon emissions that result in climate change and extreme weather disruptions and disasters. In the book, Renne, Wolshon, Murray-Tuite, Pande and Kim demonstrate how to minimize the transportation impacts associated with these urban disasters, with an ultimate goal of returning them to at least status quo in the shortest feasible time"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Creating Resilient Transportation Systems: Policy, Planning and Implementation demonstrates how the transportation sector is a leading producer of carbon emissions that result in climate change and extreme weather disruptions and disasters. In the book, Renne, Wolshon, Murray-Tuite, Pande and Kim demonstrate how to minimize the transportation impacts associated with these urban disasters, with an ultimate goal of returning them to at least status quo in the shortest feasible time"-- Provided by publisher.

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