Automated Transit: Planning, Operation, And Applications

This book will provide a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of automated transit technology and its applications. This book will shed some light on social, economic and environmental impacts of the ATS applications. Building on the extensive research accumulated more than four decades and extensive communications with a large network of professional, this book presents the impact and implications on travel behavior changes, life style choices, and economic consequences of the new ATS paradigm.

Dr. Rongfang Liu is a transportation professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).? Dr. Liu's research interests include Intermodal and Multimodal Transportation Planning and Engineering, Operation Research and Network Simulations, and transportation safety performance analyses. Dr. Liu is actively participating in various professional organizations and service activities. Since 2008, she has been the Chair of AP040 Committee: Automated Transit Systems, Transportation Research Board, and National Academy of Science. She was also the President of NACOTA (2006-2008), a federally registered non-profit organization for Chinese Overseas Transportation Professionals. Dr. Liu has authored and edited eight books, published more than 30 referred journal papers and book chapters, and made more than a hundred presentations in the transportation field. She is a registered professional engineer (PE) as well as a certified planner (AICP).