Emerald Group Publishing - The Leading Publisher of Transport Books

Emerald Group Publishing Limited has over 40 years’ experience as a scholarly publisher and has recently established its presence within book publishing. Emerald is the leading publisher in transport books, featuring high quality titles from prominent international authors, who are experts in their fields.

Our broad portfolio of transport titles includes the Handbooks in Transport edited by David Hensher and Kenneth Button, an acclaimed set of 6 transport handbooks which form a unique reference work that comprehensively covers this many-faceted subject. Comprising specially commissioned chapters from world experts on their topics, the volumes encapsulate the essential knowledge of major areas within transportation.

Recent publications also include Recent Developments in Transport Modelling edited by Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Hilde Meersman and Eddy van de Voorde and Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport edited by Adriaan Perrels, Veli Himanen and Martin Lee-Gosselin.
Emerald is committed to publishing a range of professional and scholarly publications based upon the tenet "Research you can use”,  producing rigorous and relevant research that is applicable to the world of professional practice.

Handbook of Road Safety Measures, 2nd edition – due to publish in September 2009
By Rune Elvik, Truls Vaa and Alena Erke
The book summarises knowledge regarding the effects of road safety measures. All types of road safety measures are included. Summaries of knowledge are, for the most part, based on meta-analyses of relevant evaluation studies. Results of more than 2,000 studies evaluating the effects of road safety measures have been summarised. The book is an updated version of the Handbook of Road Safety Measures, published by Elsevier Science in 2004 and includes four new chapters.

Traffic Safety and Human Behaviour
David Shinar, published in October 2007
Traffic crashes have become the epidemic of the third millennium - a seemingly necessary evil that accompanies increasing levels of motorization. In this comprehensive book, Dr David Shinar provides a theoretical framework and a critical evaluation of the most recent research findings to comprehend the complexity of traffic safety and the central role that drivers, motorcyclists, and pedestrians play in it. In approximately 800 pages with over 250 graphs and tables, Shinar covers the key issues that relate human behavior to traffic safety.

Recent Developments in Transport Modeling: Lessons for the Freight Sector
Edited by: Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Hilde Meersman, E. van de Voorde, published in October 2008
This book is intended for transportation professionals interested in the role of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), and freight transport modeling and policy. It is dedicated to the memory of Professor Marvin L. Manheim, the father of modern Transportation Systems Analysis (TSA), who founded the World Conference on Transport Research Society, and is considered the foremost visionary of ICTs, transportation, and logistics.

Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport: Obstacles, Trends, Solutions
By Veli Himanen, Martin Lee-Gosselin (Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada), Adriaan Perrels, published in June 2007
This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management. Achieving sustainable transport requires more than 'optimal' management of congestion and the effects on public health and the environment. Assessments of external effects, and their optimal levels, tend to be piecemeal, localized, and focused on a specific type of effect. Sustainability, on the other hand, is a comprehensive, forward-looking concept that encompasses the achievement of a state of society that is better overall; it requires a widened concept of welfare that includes environmental quality and social justice in both the short and long term. This book is organized into three sections, each discussing a major set of challenges to the transition to a sustainable transport system.

Handbook of Transport Modeling (Handbooks in Transport, volume 1, 2nd edition) published in September 2007
Edited by: David A. Hensher, Kenneth J. Button
Since 2000, there has been an exponential amount of research completed in the field of transport modeling thereby creating a need for an expanded and revised edition of this book. National transport models have taken on the new modeling methods and there have been theoretical and empirical advances in performance measurement. Coverage will include current demand methods, data issues, valuation, cost and performance, and updated traffic models. Supplementary case studies will illustrate how modeling can be applied to the study of the different transport modes and the infrastructures that support them. The second edition of this handbook will continue to be an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in the field. All contributions are by leading experts in their fields and there is extensive cross-referencing of subject matter. This book features expanded coverage on emerging trends and updated case studies. It addresses models for specific applications (i.e., parking, national traffic forecasting, public transport, urban freight movements, and logistics management).

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