Recommended Reading List

We asked the transportation modeling community what books and/or reports they would recommend for people new to the profession. Here are some of their suggestions.

Textbooks and other Books

• Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Search Google Books
• Discrete Choice Analysis: Theory and Application to Travel Demand by Moshe E. Ben-Akiva and Steven R. Lerman. Search Google Books
• Discrete Choice Methods With Simulation by Kenneth Train. Search Google Books or University of California Web site
• Great American Motion Sickness by John Burby. Search Google Books
• Modelling Transport by J. de D. Ortuzar and L. G. Willumsen. Search Google Books
• Open Road by Phil Patton. Search Google Books
• Still Stuck in Traffic by Anthony Downs. Search Google Books
• Stuck in Traffic by Anthony Downs. Search Google Books
• The Geography of Urban Transportation by Susan Hanson and Genevieve Giuliano. Search Google Books
• Toll Road Traffic and Revenue Forecasts: An Interpreter's Guide by Robert Bain. Search Google Books
• Transportation For Livable Cities by Vukan R. Vuchic. Search Google Books
• Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications by Konstadinos G. Goulias. Search Google Books
• Urban Transit Policy by David Jones. Search Google Books
• Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach by Michael D. Meyer and Eric J. Miller. Search Google Books

Government Reports and Documents

• Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview - Fifth Edition by Ed Weiner, DOT-T-97-24. TMIP Web site
• Guidebook on Statewide Travel Forecasting. Federal Highway Administration. FHWA Web site
• A Self-Instructing Course in Mode Choice Modeling: Multinomial and Nested Logit Models by F. S. Koppelman and C. Bhat, US DOT Federal Transit Administration, 2006. Northwestern University or University of Texas
• Travel Estimation Techniques For Urban Planning, NCHRP Report #365. BTS Web site
• PLANPAC/BACKPAC General Information Manual by FHWA. Ohio Travel Demand MUG Web site

Other Resources

• Introduction to Travel Demand Forecasting Self-Instructional CD-ROM. Federal Highway Administration. TMIP Web site
• Inside the Blackbox: Making Transportation Models Work For Livable Communities by Edward Beimborn and Rob Kennedy. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Web site
• TDM Encyclopedia. Victoria Transport Institute Web site