Urban Transport XVIII

The May 2012 Urban Transport conference in A Coruna, Spain was the 18th such conference in a series that began in 1995. Roughly 60 papers address issues of concern to engineers and planners including the specifics of environmental impact, environmentally friendly transport modes, transport strategies, public transport systems, modeling and simulation, management, safety and security, infrastructure, and land use and transport integration. A sampling of topics: modeling tree-induced effects on pedestrian exposure to road traffic pollution, biofuels, improving safety and sustainability of urban transport surfaces through the recycling of reclaimed extinguishing powders, analysis of the interaction between travel demand and rail capacity constraints, tunnel lighting design, urban car sharing, online monitoring of essential components of rail transport, evaluating superelevation in relation to drainage requirements and vehicle dynamics, and a design framework for measuring transit oriented development. Indexing is by author only (not by subject). The editors are affiliated as follows: J.W.S. Longhurst (U. of the West of England) and C.A. Brebbia (Wessex Institute of Technology, UK). The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)