Transport Modelling for a Complete Beginner

This is a very interesting book to read, especially if you are someone new to Transport Modelling. For Transport Modellers this book will help in getting brushed on key concepts and theories in a very simple way. Though this book do not have any mathematics, it has got some nice examples which will help us to relate to the concepts easily. I had been waiting to grab this book and I appreciate Yaron Hollander for writing this book.

Yaron Hollander is an experienced transport modeller, previously at Transport for London and now an independent consultant. He has written and published a book for beginners, which I warmly recommend. The style is accessible, jokey even, with cute hand-drawn illustrations. I learned a lot both from the the main expository text, and also from Part II, which discusses critically the culture of transport modelling.Yaron argues that models work best for short term predictions of small scale interventions, such as fine-tuning traffic signal timings. But in practice models are mostly used to support investments in long lived infrastructure: here the modellers may understand the shortcomings, which their clients may prefer not to recognise provided the model outputs justify the planned investment.For me, this book both illuminates and disillusions at the same time, but no less valuable for that.

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