Traffic : (Record no. 42649)
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| fixed length control field | 03192 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780307277190 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 388.310973 |
| Item number | VAN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vanderbilt, Tom |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Traffic : |
| Remainder of title | why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Vintage books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2009 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii,402p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Prologue<br/>Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too) 3<br/>Chapter One<br/>Why Does the Other Lane Always Seem Faster? How Traffic Messes with Our Heads<br/>Shut Up, I Can't Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving 19<br/>Are You Lookin' at Me? Eye Contact, Stereotypes, and Social Interaction on the Road 27<br/>Waiting in Line, Waiting in Traffic: Why the Other Lane Always Moves Faster 40<br/>Postscript: And Now, the Secrets of Late Merging Revealed 45<br/>Chapter Two<br/>Why You're Not as Good a Driver as You Think You Are<br/>If Driving Is So Easy, Why Is It So Hard for a Robot? What Teaching Machines to Drive Teaches Us About Driving 51<br/>How's My Driving? How the Hell Should I Know? Why Lack of Feedback Fails Us on the Road 57<br/>Chapter Three<br/>How Our Eyes and Minds Betray Us on the Road<br/>Keep Your Mind on the Road: Why It's So Hard to Pay Attention in Traffic 74<br/>Objects in Traffic Are More Complicated Than They Appear: How Our Driving Eyes Deceive Us 89<br/>Chapter Four<br/>Why Ants Don't Get into Traffic Jams (and Humans Do): On Cooperation as a Cure for Congestion<br/>Meet the World's Best Commuter: What We Can Learn from Ants, Locusts, and Crickets 102<br/>Playing God in Los Angeles 108<br/>When Slower Is Faster, or How the Few Defeat the Many: Traffic Flow and Human Nature 119<br/>Chapter Five<br/>Why Women Cause More Congestion Than Men (and Other Secrets of Traffic)<br/>Who Are All These People? The Psychology of Commuting 131<br/>The Parking Problem: Why We Are Inefficient Parkers and How This Causes Congestion 142<br/>Chapter Six<br/>Why More Roads Lead to More Traffic (and What to Do About It)<br/>The Selfish Commuter 15 3<br/>A Few Mickey Mouse Solutions to the Traffic Problem 161<br/>Chapter Seven<br/>When Dangerous Roads Are Safer<br/>The Highway Conundrum: How Drivers Adapt to the Road They See 176<br/>The Trouble with Traffic Signs-and How Getting Rid of Them Can Make Things Better for Everyone 186<br/>Forgiving Roads or Permissive Roads? The Fatal Flaws of Traffic Engineering 204<br/>Chapter Eight<br/>How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent<br/>"Good Brakes, Good Horn, Good Luck": Plunging into the Maelstrom of Delhi Traffic 211<br/>Why New Yorkers Jaywalk (and Why They Don't in Copenhagen): Traffic as Culture 216<br/>Danger: Corruption Ahead— the Secret Indicator of Crazy Traffic 231<br/>Chapter Nine<br/>Why You Shouldn't Drive with a Beer-Drinking Divorced Doctor Named Fred on Super Bowl Sunday in a Pickup Truck in Rural Montana: What's Risky on the Road and Why<br/>Semiconscious Fear: How We Misunderstand the Risks of the Road 244<br/>Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Risk on the Road Is So Complicated 248<br/>The Risks of Safety 262<br/>Epilogue: Driving Lessons 277<br/>Acknowledgments 287 <br/>Notes 293<br/>Index 385<br/> |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 46096 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FP |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Planning | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 06/04/2016 | Books India | 959.00 | 10 | 13 | 388.310973 VAN | 015648 | 09/10/2023 | 15/09/2023 | 1201.19 | 02/04/2016 | Book |