Transportation Engineering
An Introduction
2nd Edition
Published on 11. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
720 pages
978-0-13-861527-7 (ISBN)
Description
Covering the essentials of transportation engineering, planning and management with an interdisciplinary approach, this book includes a wide range of topics. It encompasses traditional principles, such as traffic engineering and transportation planning, and non-traditional considerations, including tansportation economics, land use, energy, public transport, and transportation systems management. These are supported by case studies and problems encountered. This new edition contains references to computer programs in the public and private sectors, and updates coverage of geometic design to reflect the revisions of AASHTO's Geometic Design.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1023 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-861527-7 (9780138615277)
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Content
Transport as a system; transportation economics; the land use/transportation system; vehicle and human characteristics; traffic flow characteristics; geometric design of highways; highway capacity; intersection control and design; at-grade intersection capacity and level of service; public passenger transportation; urban tranportation planning; local area traffic management; energy issues connected with transportation; TSM planning - framework; evaluation of transportation improvement; transportation safety. Appmendices: engineering economics; statistics and probability; computer program details.