EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ECONOMICS: CHAPTER 4. TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN TRANSPORT

This chapter discusses technical innovation in transport vehicles and infrastructure, and in the operation and management of transport systems. The first group of innovations includes those in: (1) individual road passenger vehicles, especially cars; (2) buses; (3) commercial vehicles; (4) rail infrastructure and rolling stock; and (5) road and airport infrastructure construction. In the second group, the main technical innovations are in radio data based systems, whose main application areas are: (1) demand management; (2) travel information; (3) traffic information; (4) traffic control; (5) vehicle control; (6) parking management; and (7) organisation and general management of urban and interurban traffic. Other technical innovations are in: (1) freight logistics and management; (2) public transport; and (3) combined transport. The chapter also discusses the operational impacts, costs, benefits, and dissemination patterns of technical innovation. For the covering abstract see IRRD 874715.

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• Authors:
  • GIANNOPOULOS, G A
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 52-80
• Serial:
  • EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ECONOMICS

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Automobiles; Buses; Economic factors; Economics; Freight transportation; Impact studies; Intermodal transportation; Public transit; Railroad transportation; Technology; Textbooks; Traffic control; Transportation; Transportation operations; Trucks; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 1272: Bus; 1243: Car; 263: Economics of transport; 741: Goods traffic; 9112: Impact study; 1121: Intermodal transport (freight); 1236: Lorry; 1144: Operations (transp network); 744: Public transport; 1173: Rail bound transport; 3855: Technology; 8526: Textbook; 654: Traffic control; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00715911
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 31 1996 12:00AM