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Transportation systems : managing performance through advanced maintenance engineering
Singh S., Martinetti A., Majumdar A., van Dongen L., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 221 pp. Type: Book
Date Reviewed: Aug 12 2020

This review is being written in the midst of the most terrible calamity that anyone can remember. It is ironic that this magnificent contribution is edited by four giants of transportation literature who are also from four lands deeply affected by the COVID-19 pestilence.

Drs. Sarbjeet Singh, Alberto Martinetti, Arnab Majumdar, and Leo van Dongen have transfused new blood into the blood vessels of the planet, that is, transportation. And it would be equally important to thank Springer for bringing this volume to the public.

Transportation systems presents the reader with innovative yet carefully researched technologies to improve a society in which people and goods travel.

The book is divided into four sections. The first part explores the challenges of transportation in today’s world, as well as speculation of what may be needed in the future. An excellent feature of the text is its emphasis on the human element. Concern for society, culture, and users of transportation is the leitmotif of this work. The editors and authors of each chapter keep in focus that whatever is done in transportation, one must never forget that there is a person at the end of that decision.

Part 2 emphasizes the benefits of emerging technologies, as well as the risks associated with the same. This chapter also explores risk- and condition-based maintenance.

Part 3 includes an exhaustive study of documented failures in transportation technologies and what the professional engineering community can learn from these failures to avoid repetition. The importance of big data analysis in any research study is also emphasized.

Part 4 wisely concentrates on the importance of vocational education for transportation professionals of the future, including what these young students should never forget: the importance of learning about radical new visions in transportation for managing and maintaining transportation in a world that is totally unexpected.

This book may not be remembered as the Principia mathematica [1] of the 21st century, but every civil engineering department should make it required reading.

Reviewer:  James Van Speybroeck Review #: CR147036 (2101-0009)
1) Whitehead, A. N.; Russell, B. Principia mathematica (3 vols.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1927.
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