Acrosticus wrote:
From: "Dave Arquati"
Date: 19/07/2003 00:02 GMT Daylight Time
I was thinking mainly of the ways that transport flows
are studied and controlled, how they work (e.g. how
traffic flows around cities or pedestrians around
stations), an introduction to how they are modelled, those
sort of ideas if you can understand what I'm after
(although with very little knowledge of the area to begin
with, it's difficult to define).
--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
Right! Now we seem to be on track after a few false starts
with train spotters assuming transport is all railways and
that nothing else matters. There's probably a later edition
than this now but I would suggest as a starting point:
Bruton, M J (1975): "Introduction to Transportation
Planning" (2nd Edn), London: Hutchinson & Co.
Good on mathematical modelling without getting too heavy
for beginners to grapple with. Plenty of equations, but all
supported by detailed written explanations of what they do
and where the terms in them come from. Deals with road
traffic, but not passenger movements around large railway
stations though (which, oddly enough, might be the kind of
thing you'd find in an architecture text rather than a
transport one; but which particular text I couldn't say as
I'm not an architect).
If the most constructive thing you can do is to crticise someone who at
least amkes an attempt to help, and by so doing gets closer to what the
questioner want, then it simply demonstrates what a little person you are.