This book offers a collection of valuable guidelines for making decisions concerning the future
development of transport networks and traffic engineering. The decision-making support systems
described here will certainly attract the interest of those who face the challenge of finding
solutions to problems concerning modern transport systems on a daily basis. Consequently the
book is chiefly intended for local authorities involved in planning and preparing development
strategies for specific transport-related areas (in both urban and regional contexts) as well
as for representatives of business and industry who are directly engaged in the implementation
of traffic engineering solutions. The guidelines provided in the respective chapters help to
address the given problem soundly and to simplify the selection of an appropriate strategy.
The topics covered include increasing the competitiveness of public transport the status quo
of electric vehicle infrastructures worldwide methods for calming urban traffic as an element
of sustainable transport development speed traffic zones and electric buses car-sharing
systems in Poland a method for deconstructing the regional travel demand model monitoring
urban traffic using floating car data problems of deliveries in urban agglomeration
distribution systems estimating the number of threatened people in case of fire in road
tunnels and road pavement evaluation using advanced tools. Since the book also considers new
approaches to theoretical models (including traffic flow surveys and measurements transport
behaviors human factors in traffic engineering and road condition modeling) it will also
appeal to researchers and scientists studying these problems. The book gathers selected papers
presented at the 15th Scientific and Technical Conference Transport Systems. Theory and
Practice organized by the Department of Transport Systems and Traffic Engineering Silesian
University of Technology in Katowice Poland on September 17-19 2018.
