Emerging Trends in Transportation Planning
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This book explores emerging trends in transportation, some of which cause vigorous debate because of the fundamental shift in transportation philosophy. It will inspire transportation professionals to challenge the status quo for the sake of the public's well-being. Communities are eager for experts to embrace strategies that protect human life, and experts are often framed as out-of-touch for being slow to adapt to a community's needs.
Export/Import Procedures and Documentation
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This comprehensive answer book supplies readers with a clear view of the entire process, explaining the ins and outs of shipping and insurance; currency exchange; dealing with banks; contracts; customs; and transportation. The book includes 140 sample contracts, documents, and ready-to-use forms, information on new security procedures, the movement to Internet-based documentation, recently enacted Free Trade Agreements, increased compliance measures under the Consumer Products Safety Commission, and much more.
Securing Transportation Systems
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This book addresses a variety of challenges and solutions within the transportation security sphere in order to protect our transportation systems. It provides solutions to improved communication and creating joint operations centers to manage response to threats. The book details technological measures to protect our transportation infrastructure, and explains their feasibility and economic costs. It discusses changes in travel behavior as a response to terrorism and natural disaster. The book explains the role of transportation systems in supporting response operations in large disasters and is written with a worldwide scope.
Solving Transport Problems
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Solving Transport Problems establishes fundamental points and good practice in resolving matters regarding green transportation. This is to prompt further research in conveyance issues by providing readers with new knowledge and grounds for integrated models and solution methods. Focusing on green transportation, this book covers various sub-topics and thus consists of diverse content. Traditionally, academia and transport practitioners have mainly concentrated on efficient fleet management to achieve economic benefits and better-quality service. More recently, due to growing public environmental concerns and the industry understanding of the issue, the academic community has started to address environmental issues. The studies of green transportation compiled in this book have identified certain areas of interest, such as references, viewpoints, algorithms and ideas. Solving Transport Problems is for researchers, environmental decision-makers and other concerned parties, to start discussion on developing optimized technology and alternative fuel-based integrated models for environmentally cleaner transport systems.
Transportation Security
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This book features articles from the Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security covering topics related to security challenge of transportation systems in the USA and elsewhere, performance measures, including coverage of critical supply chain protection and emergency evacuation.
