"Acrosticus" wrote in message
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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).

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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).

Thanks, I'll look it up in the library.


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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Richard J. wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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This isn't strictly a London matter, but it could be I
suppose!
I'm looking for an online resource where I can learn the
basics of transport science.

What exactly is "transport science"? I can think of all
kinds of different disciplines that are relevant to
transport -- engineering, physics, mathematics, economics,
etc etc, but I am not aware of anything called transport
science. What is it?

A catch all term for the subjects you've just mentioned.

If so, it's not a science. Also, it seems very unlikely that there is one
resource where you can learn the basics of everything from moving-block
signalling to rural bus subsidies.
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard J. wrote:
"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Richard J. wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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This isn't strictly a London matter, but it could be I
suppose!
I'm looking for an online resource where I can learn the
basics of transport science.

What exactly is "transport science"? I can think of all
kinds of different disciplines that are relevant to
transport -- engineering, physics, mathematics, economics,
etc etc, but I am not aware of anything called transport
science. What is it?

A catch all term for the subjects you've just mentioned.

If so, it's not a science.

Some people seem able to make anything into a "science", even common sense!

Also, it seems very unlikely
that there is one resource where you can learn the basics
of everything from moving-block signalling to rural bus
subsidies.

Very likely true. But I would have thought that the library at Imperial
College would be a good place to start. :-)

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Richard J. wrote:
"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Richard J. wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
...
This isn't strictly a London matter, but it could be I
suppose!
I'm looking for an online resource where I can learn the
basics of transport science.

What exactly is "transport science"? I can think of all
kinds of different disciplines that are relevant to
transport -- engineering, physics, mathematics, economics,
etc etc, but I am not aware of anything called transport
science. What is it?

A catch all term for the subjects you've just mentioned.

If so, it's not a science.

Some people seem able to make anything into a "science", even common
sense!

Also, it seems very unlikely
that there is one resource where you can learn the basics
of everything from moving-block signalling to rural bus
subsidies.

Very likely true. But I would have thought that the library at Imperial
College would be a good place to start. :-)

And I'll be sure to go as soon as I get back to Imperial :-) For the
meantime it's Luton Central Library...

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7