Transport Decisions in an Age of Uncertainty: Proceedings of the Third World Conference on Transport Research Rotterdam, 26 - 28 April, 1977 (Hardcover, 1977)

Avant-propos/Foreword.- Liste des presidents/List of chairmen.- Opening Session.- Welcome speech.- Keynote addresses.- Trends in thinking on traffic and transport policy in recent decades and the role of research on which policy is based.- Allocution.- Allocution.- A development banker's view.- Keynote address.- Session II: 1 Urban transport problems.- An agenda for urban transportation.- Tendances de la recherche dans les transports urbains - un point de vue.- Urban mass transportation in India.- Urban transportation polity in Poland.- Application of research works to metropolitan transportation development.- Session II: 2 Intercontinental transportation.- The Relationship of research to decisionmaking in intercontinental traffic.- Transport decisions in an age of uncertainty - Trends in port research.- Polity applications of research on the development and evaluation of air fares on the North Atlantic.- Intercontinental transportation and the marine container system.- Session II: 3 Intercity passenger travel.- The Northeast Corridor: Has research influenced policy?.- Intercity passenger transport travel in Egypt, performance and problems.- Conclusions from Action 33.- Long distance passenger transport: the Australian experience.- National traffic planning in developed countries - Taking the Federal Republic of Germany as an example.- Workshop 1: Passenger demand analysis.- An equilibrium mode-split model of work trips along a transportation corridor.- The theory and practice of car ownership forecasting.- Report on investigations of household travel decisionmaking behavior.- Aggregate forecasting with disaggregate travel demand models using normally available data.- Session II: 4 Regional transport planning (freight).- Decision issues and research priorities in intercity freight transportation: a U.S. perspective.- Transport policy and regional policy in the European communities.- Planning for inland navigation in Western Europe.- Session III: 1 Passenger demand analysis.- Passenger travel demand forecasting: Applications of disaggregate models and directions for research.- Equilibrium between travel demand, system supply and urban structure.- Personal travel in towns: the development of models that reflect the real world.- European passenger travel demand - Analysis and strategy responsive forecast.- Considerations on the design of behavioural orientated models from the point of view of empirical social research.- Session III: 2 Freight demand analysis.- Transport demand models and policy - a comparative analysis.- Forecasting freight demand.- Management - a Potential source of improved long-term demand forecasts in aviation and shipping.- Reflexions sur la situation et les objectifs de la recherche dans le domaine des transports de marchandises.- Workshop 2: Analysis of technology performance and cost analysis (land, air and marine).- Bus acquisition and retirement decisions.- The uncertainty of decisionmaking in a direct democracy.- The inseparability of operationel control policy analysis and strategic planning - An experience with U.S. airports.- Session III: 3 Analysis of technology performance and cost analysis (Land modes).- Operational requirements for new transit technology.- The U.S. owner-operator trucker: A transportation policy based on personal bankruptcy.- A system analysis of effectiveness of energy saving measures in transport.- Aspects of governmental research and development funding programmes for ground transportation systems.- A road transport investment model for developing countries.- Fondements techniques et economiques du transport ferroviaire des voyageurs a grande vitesse.- Research issues in rail transport operations.- Session III: 4 Analysis of technology performance and cost analysis (air and marine).- Advanced airline planning models as a tool for developing regulatory policy.- Aspects economiques de la propulsion nucleaire civile.- Interaction of costs and technological developments in t