Now in its third edition, this volume deals with the basic principles and fundamentals of transportation planning. It also keeps abreast of the current techniques, practices and policies used in transportation planning.
Transportation planning plays a key role as a lifeline for any society. It comprises applications of science and art, where a great deal of judgment coupled with its technical elements is required to arrive at a meaningful decision in order to develop transportation infrastructure facilities for the community. It, thereby, helps in achieving a safer, faster, comfortable, convenient, economical, sustainable and environment-friendly movement of people and goods traffic.

In this context, the book has been written, and now updated in the third edition dealing with the basic principles and fundamentals of transportation planning. It also keeps abreast of the current techniques, practices and policies used in transportation planning.

Exploiting a systematic approach avoiding prolixity, this book will prove to be a vade mecum for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering and transportation engineering. Besides, the book is of immense benefit to the students opting a course on Master of Planning/Transportation Engineering conducted in various institutes.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK

• Prodigious illustrative figures and tables

• Systematically organised concepts well-supported with ample illustrations

• Chapter-end summary helps in grasping the quirk concepts

• State-of-the-art data garnered in the book presents an updated version

• Chapter-end review questions help students to prepare for the examination