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Cities for Driverless Vehicles: Planning the future built environment with shared mobility

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Edited by Xu Zhang (Henan University of Technology, China PR.; Xu Zhang Consultancy Ltd, UK)

Cities for Driverless Vehicles outlines the infrastructure requirements needed to prepare for autonomous vehicles. With insights drawn from urban planners across the world, the book examines how our future cities will look, what legal requirements will need to be made, and how people will interact with driverless cars and lorries. It also covers Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and how professionals can plan and prepare for the new technological age. It includes planning considerations for industry professionals, explains new technology, and deals with the infrastructure that the vehicles will interact with. It is an ideal purchase for urban and transport planners, infrastructure engineers as well as policy and decision makers.

978-0-7277-6452-2 | 416pp | October 2021 | Hardback | £90.00 | $135.00

Bundle: High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction

Volumes 1 and 2

High Speed Two

The main construction of HS2, Britain’s high-speed rail network, began in September 2020 when Main Works Civils Contractors moved from enabling works, scheme design and preparatory work to full construction of the railway. The low-carbon network will link London and Birmingham and extend services to the North and Scotland, serving more than 25 stations. High-speed trains will reach speeds of 225mph and transform journey times. The papers in this two-volume bundle examine the challenges of this unprecedented project, sharing learning in planning, design, construction and management for major railway infrastructure projects.

978-0-7277-6637-3 | 896pp | October 2021 | Hardback | £131.75 | $198.00

High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction

Volume 1: Design, Engineering and Architecture

High Speed Two

Volume 1 covers learning in planning, design, construction and management for major railway infrastructure projects. It includes coverage of the stations, bridges and viaducts, underground structures and ground engineering on Phase One of the HS2 project.

978-0-7277-6576-5 | 560pp | October 2021 | Hardback | £80.00 | $120.00

High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction

Volume 2: Digital Engineering, Environment and Heritage

High Speed Two

The papers in this volume explore the challenges of the HS2 project and the learning in planning, design, construction and management for major railway infrastructure projects. Volume 2 includes coverage of the digital engineering, environmental considerations and archaeology taking place during the HS2’s first phase of construction.

978-0-7277-6578-9 | 336pp | October 2021 | Hardback | £75.00 | $112.50

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Accessibility and the Bus System: Transforming the world, Second edition

Nick Tyler (University College London, UK)

978-0-7277-5980-1 | 416pp | December 2015 | Hardback | £122.25 | $187.50

Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, Second edition

Andrew Lawrence and Peter Ross (Arup, UK)

978-0-7277-6178-1 | 288pp | August 2020 | Paperback | £85.00 | $127.50

Bridge Deck Erection Equipment: A best practice guide

Members of IABSE Working Group 6 (Edited by Steve Harridge and Max Meyer) 978-0-7277-6193-4 | 480pp | June 2018 | Hardback | £128.75 | $187.00

Crossrail Project: Infrastructure design and construction: 5 volume set

Rhys Vaughan Williams (Crossrail, UK) and Mike Black (Crossrail 2, UK)

978-0-7277-6424-9 | 2448pp | August 2018 | Hardback | £305.50 | $465.00

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Designing and Constructing Prestressed Bridges

Jiří Stráský (Technical University of Brno and Strasky, Husty and Partners, Ltd, Czech Republic) and Radim Nečas (Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic)

978-0-7277-6385-3 | 408pp | January 2021 | Hardback | £80.00 | $120.00

Designing a Safer Built Environment: A complete guide to the management of design risk

John Carpenter 978-0-7277-6582-6 | 240pp | May 2021 | Paperback | £60.00 | $90.00

Designing for Cycle Traffic: International principles and practice

John Parkin (University of the West of England, UK)

978-0-7277-6349-5 | 248pp | July 2018 | Paperback | £70.00 | $97.00

Earthquake Design Practice for Buildings, Fourth edition

Damian Grant (Arup, UK) with Edmund Dwight Booth

978-0-7277-6455-3 | 440pp | November 2020 | Hardback | £95.00 | $142.50

Energy and Mobility in Smart Cities: International perspectives on innovation

William James Nuttall (The Open University, UK), David Gibson (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico) and Dariusz Trzmielak (University of Lodz, Poland)

978-0-7277-6425-6 | 264pp | October 2019 | Hardback | £80.75 | $120.50

Ground Vibrations from High-Speed Railways: Prediction and mitigation

Edited by Victor V Krylov (Loughborough University, UK)

978-0-7277-6379-2 | 392pp | May 2019 | Hardback | £145.00 | $203.50

Highways: The location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements, Fifth edition

Edited by Coleman O’Flaherty, with David Hughes (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

978-0-7277-5993-1 | 616pp | November 2015 | Paperback | £58.00 | $92.50

Inside London’s Airports Policy: Indecision, decision and counter-decision

Paul Le Blond

978-0-7277-6365-5 | 200pp | December 2018 | Hardback | £75.25 | $107.00

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Planning Resilient Infrastructure Systems

Alexander Hay (Southern Harbour Ltd, Canada)

978-0-7277-6562-8 | 240pp | July 2021 | Hardback | £70.00 | $105.00

Practical Road Safety Auditing, Third edition

Martin Belcher (TMS Consultancy, UK), Steve Proctor and Phil Cook 978-0-7277-6016-6 | 208pp | April 2015 | Hardback | £80.25 | $127.50

The Railway Metropolis: How planners, politicians and developers shaped modern London

Michael Schabas (CPCS Transcom, UK)

978-0-7277-6180-4 | 296pp | December 2016 | Hardback | £53.50 | $89.00

Refurbishment Projects: Health and safety management

Edited by David Oloke (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

978-0-7277-6159-0 | 176pp | June 2020 | Hardback | £50.00 | $85.00

Repair of Historic Timber Structures, Second edition

David Yeomans (Weald & Downland Open-Air Museum, UK)

978-0-7277-6438-6 | 168pp | March 2020 | Hardback | £60.00 | $90.00

Rethinking Masterplanning: Creating quality places

Husam AlWaer and Barbara Illsley (University of Dundee, UK)

978-0-7277-6071-5 | 260pp | June 2017 | Paperback | £67.00 | $120.50

The Shell Bitumen Handbook, Sixth edition

Edited by Robert N Hunter (Hunter & Edgar Consulting Civil Engineers, UK) 978-0-7277-5837-8 | 808pp | January 2015 | Hardback | £133.50 | $207.50

Temporary Works: Principles of design and construction, Second edition

Edited by Peter F Pallett and Ray Filip (RKF Consult Ltd, UK)

978-0-7277-6338-9 | 560pp | December 2018 | Hardback | £155.75 | $229.00

Underground Spaces Unveiled: Planning and creating the cities of the future

Han Admiraal (Enprodes Management Consultancy BV, Netherlands) and Antonia Cornaro (Amberg Engineering, Switzerland)

978-0-7277-6145-3 | 248pp | February 2018 | Hardback | £75.25 | $132.00

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