Supply Chain Risk | Business Continuity | Transport Vulnerability » Miller Harvey http://www.husdal.com Journal articles and papers, books and book chapters, research reports and whitepapers, blogs and websites Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:15:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Book review: GIS for Transportationhttp://www.husdal.com/2003/08/25/book-review-geographic-information-systems-for-transportation/ http://www.husdal.com/2003/08/25/book-review-geographic-information-systems-for-transportation/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:51:51 +0000 Jan Husdal http://transportationgis.wordpress.com/2003/08/25/book-review-geographic-information-systems-for-transportation/ Having been a student with Harvey Miller at the University of Utah 200o-2002 probably makes my review somewhat biased. Nevertheless, Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications (Spatial Information Systems) written by Harvey Miller and Shih Lung shaw is an excellent book if you’re a student or professional in the field of GIS and need to know how GIS can be applied to transportation, or vice versa, knowing transportation, this book will tell you what GIS can do for you.

Solid

Mind you, this is not for the fainthearted, this is solid academic work and presumes some academic knowlegde prior to reading this book. It is specked with references that are hard to get, and you are likely to spend more time in the library reading up on the bibliography than digesting the actual text. Still, if GIS-T is your line of research, you cannot avoid having this book. It is by far one of the most comprehensive I have seen. It is clear that the authors posess solid knowledge and have covered a wide field and left nothing out. It may have a rather inhibitive price; in hindsight it was well worth the money spent.

Reference

Miller, H., Shaw, S.L. (2001). Geographic Information Systems for Transportation. New York: Oxford University Press.

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