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Book SynopsisGain unique insights into all facets of today's traffic and highway engineering with the enhanced edition of Garber and Hoel's best-selling TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING, SI Edition, 5th Edition. This edition initially highlights the pivotal role that transportation plays in today's society. You examine employment opportunities that transportation creates, study its historical impact and explore the influences of transportation on modern daily life. This comprehensive approach offers an accurate understanding of the field with emphasis on some of transportation's distinctive challenges. Later chapters focus on specific issues facing transportation engineers to prepare you for common obstacles you may need to overcome in the field. Worked problems, diagrams and tables, reference materials and meaningful examples clearly demonstrate how to apply the transportation engineering principles you have learned.
Table of ContentsPart I: INTRODUCTION. 1. The Profession of Transportation. 2. Transportation Systems and Organizations. Part II: TRAFFIC OPERATIONS. 3. Characteristics of the Driver, the Pedestrian, the Bicyclist, the Vehicle, and the Road. 4. Traffic Engineering Studies. 5. Highway Safety. 6. Fundamental Principles of Traffic Flow. 7. Intersection Design. 8. Intersection Control. 9. Capacity and Level of Service for Highway Segments. 10. Capacity and Level of Service at Signalized Intersections. Part III: TRANSPORTATION PLANNING. 11. The Transportation Planning Process. 12. Forecasting Travel Demand. 13. Evaluating Transportation Alternatives. Part IV: LOCATION, GEOMETRICS, AND DRAINAGE. 14. Highway Surveys and Location. 15. Geometric Design of Highway Facilities. 16. Highway Drainage. Part V: MATERIALS AND PAVEMENTS. 17. Soil Engineering for Highway Design. 18. Bituminous Materials. 19. Design of Flexible Highway Pavements. 20. Design of Rigid Pavements. 21. Pavement Management. Appendix A: Critical Values for the Student's t and x2 Distributions. Appendix B: Developing Equations for Computing Regression Coefficients. Appendix C: Fitting Speed and Density Data for Example 6.3 to the Greenshields Model Using Excel. Appendix D: An Example of Level of Service Determination using HCSTM 2010. Appendix E: Metric Conversion Factors for Highway Geometric Design.
