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Acknowledging that "despite the hype about telecommuting, teleshopping, and virtual entertainment, we still sit in traffic jams ...," Miller (geography, U. of Utah, Salt Lake City) and Shaw (geography, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) nonetheless look to high- tech solutions to transportation problems via applications of Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T). A table showing the increase in the number of theses/dissertations on GIS and transportation from 1982-95 reinforces the message that this is indeed a hot topic. Assuming basic knowledge of GIS, the authors discuss scientific principles from capturing to analyzing digital geographic information about transportation infrastructure and systems; and apply the GIS-T toolkit to ground transportation planning, intelligent transportation systems, environmental and hazards analysis, and logistics.Copyright ┬й 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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