Transportation Statistics

In recent years, transportation systems have been judged on performance-based outcomes, thus, quantitative methods have become increasingly important to such assessments. Transportation Statistics brings together the work of outstanding international experts on the latest methods and their applications to the many modes of transportation statistics. This one-of-a-kind, definitive reference will equip practitioners, policy makers, and academic researchers with state-of-the-art statistical tools used in transportation modeling, how to interpret results and how to analyze the implications of those results.

Features

Presents up-to-date applications of statistical and econometric methods to transportation data rather than statistical theory

Offers transportation statistical applications that reflect current international research

Emphasizes applied processes and illustrates how these methods can be successfully used and interpreted

Provides insight into the variety of data collection sources used in statistical analysis

Draws on the many advances in statistical analysis of transportation data as a result of increasing computing power