Training materials
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Published: April 2008In this training material background information is given on the cycling history in Budapest, how cycling in the city has grown into a critical mass and what influence this can have on cycling...
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Published: April 2008The way in which urban road space is managed is key to influencing the way that people travel. There is a wealth of experience on innovative traffic management schemes that have rebalanced the use...
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Published: April 2008This training material looks at the different approaches towards urban road safety from a traffic engineering perspective. Road safety activities are a combination of policy-making, road...
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Published: December 2007The increasing complexity of mobility not only in urban areas but also in long-distance journeys results in widespread congestion, economic and environmental problems.
Against the door-to-...
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Published: December 2007The term ‘Traffic Management’ represents the process of adjusting or adapting the use of an existing road system to meet specified objectives without resorting to substantial new road construction...
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Published: December 2007Transport Planning and Land-use is rather complex since it covers various aspects related to it. The two main aspects are the general spatial and land-use patterns that have an impact on transport...
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Published: December 2007Safety can be defined as freedom from injury or risk. It relates to the safety experienced in the transport process (absence of conflicts and accidents in traffic). Thus, traffic safety implies...
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Published: December 2007Policy formulation stands at the top of the transport planning process. It is a strategic planning process leading to a general concept, usually a ‘transport masterplan’. Such a masterplan is a...
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Published: December 2007Quality and benchmarking in public transport are both management methods. Although they are common in the industrial field and used for a long time, they are not much known in the public transport...
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Published: December 2007The subject of alternative fuels is extremely wide. This training material therefore focuses on the key aspects of a selection of alternative fuels, each one in its own individual section. As a...