Geographic Information Systems in Transportation Research
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780080436302
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Human Geography; Political Science; Transportation; Politics/International Relations; Earth Sciences - Geography; General; Nonfiction; Transportation / General; Geographic information systems; Transportation engineering
First sentence: It is quite a paradox that the field of transportation has at last come to embrace Geographic Information Systems (GISs) as a key technology to support its research and operational needs, while some of the early pioneers of GIS at the University of Washington and Northwestern University were in fact transportation scientists.