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Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us. Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers...
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Island Press
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"Seventy years of a car-only approach—not car-centric, it's car-only—is actually not just non-driver hostile, it's driver hostile. No one benefits." —Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America
The car-only approach in transportation planning and engineering has led to the construction of roadways that have torn apart and devalued communities, especially Black and Brown communities. Forging a new path to
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"How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. She calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other....
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Report - Federal Highway Administration volume no. FHWA-RD-76-154
Report - Federal Highway Administration volume no. FHWA-RD-76-157
Report - Federal Highway Administration volume no. FHWA-RD-76-158
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Report - Federal Highway Administration volume no. FHWA-RD-76-157
Report - Federal Highway Administration volume no. FHWA-RD-76-158
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[Department of Transportation], Federal Highway Administration, Offices of Research & Development
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1976.
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English
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Water-resources investigations report volume 90-4186
Pub. Date
1992
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English
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Report - Federal Highway Administration volume no. FHWA-RD-77-70
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Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Offices of Research & Development
Pub. Date
1977.
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English
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This manual provides guidelines for the selection of traffic controls to reduce the hazards created by severe weather conditions to travel on limited-access highways. Analytical techniques are described in procedural format, along with worksheets, for use by traffic engineers in quantifying the extent of the accident or delay hazard created by extreme weather conditions. A methodology for selection of the most appropriate traffic control is presented...
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Transportation Research Board, Commission on Sociotechnical Systems, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
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1974-
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English
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"For more than 50 years, the Transportation Research Record has been internationally recognized as one of the preeminent peer-reviewed journals for transportation research papers from authors in the United States and from around the world. One of the most cited transportation journals, the TRR offers unparalleled depth and breadth in the coverage of transportation topics from both academic and practitioner perspectives. All modes of passenger and...