Modelling Transport

by Luis G. Willumsen and Juan De Dios Ortúzar

Book Overview

Transport planning, infrastructure project evaluation and policy making, particularly at the urban level, continue to be important issues in the 21st century. Transport modelling requires mathematical techniques in order to make predictions, which can then be utilised in planning and design. This is the basis for improved decision-making and planning in the transport arena. Building on the tremendous success of the previous editions, the new Modelling Transport continues to be the state of the art text in its field. As before, this third edition provides comprehensive and rigorous information and guidance, enabling readers to make practical use of every available technique. Presenting the following features: * A substantially updated section on data collection techniques * An examination of the latest topical modelling approaches, including new material on Probit Model estimation (now possible in practice) and Mixed Logit specification and estimation * New treatment of joint time-of-travel and assignment modelling * Significant new material on Stated Preferences * Added coverage of travel time valuation and, importantly, of the valuation of externalities such as accidents and environmental effects This book is the leader in its subject area, and gives the reader a unique contemporary account of key transport modelling techniques and applications. As before, each subject is approached as a modelling exercise with discussion of the roles of theory, data, model specification, estimation, validation and application. Techniques are included for selecting the right level of analysis and detail for modelling purposes, as well as how to adapt existing tools to serve the needs of regular updating of models and plans. Graduate and postgraduate students in transport engineering and planning, practicing transport engineers, consultants, planners and professional societies, as well as government agencies and district and city councils will find this an essential and valuable text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471861103
• ISBN13: 9780471861102
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Timely Arrival

Finally, a book that got to me before I absolutely had to have it - thanks for decreasing my stress! Mint condition too.

Excellent text book

This book is a valuable resource for students, teachers andresearchers. The coverage is broad within the subject area,whilst the material is both accessible and authoritative.This third edition includes valuable extensions and updatesto the earlier ones. I am glad to recommend this text to my students at each ofundergraduate (BEng/MEng), taught postgraduate (MSc) and research (MPhil, PhD)levels to support their learning and use of transport models. The book makes an especially suitabletext for transport modelling courses at MSc level.

Very clear and complete, therefore extremely useful.

I frequently use Ortuzar and Willumsen book (I have used both editions) and I think it is one of the best books in this field. It gives the fundmental basics of transportation in a clear and straight-forward way. For the cloth cover edition price, it is a good deal.

Excellent support for lecturing transport demand

The book describes all the basic elements of transport demand modelling in a comprehensible way, including recent developments on the different subjects. It gives detailed references pointing to the original sources and to directions for further reading. We have used this book as a main reading material for our MSc level Transport Demand course; specially for Trip Generation and Modal Split models.

The coverage and the clarity of presentation is outstanding.

The book is comprehensive and easy to read. It covers a wide variety of topics in transport planning with special emphasis in modelling. Each chapter comes with a set of excersises (very convenient for midterm exams!). The second version has included new material both in demand and network modelling. Summarising,the book's coverage and the clarity of presentation is outstanding