The Handbook of Highway Engineering / Edition 1

by T.F. Fwa

Overview

Modern highway engineering reflects an integrated view of a road system's entire lifecycle, including any potential environmental impacts, and seeks to develop a sustainable infrastructure through careful planning and active management. This trend is not limited to developed nations, but is recognized across the globe. Edited by renowned authority T.F. Fwa, The Handbook of Highway Engineering provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of all aspects of highway development and engineering. Its three sections range from consideration of socio-economic and environmental factors to design, construction, maintenance, and management.

Beginning with financing, access management, environmental impacts, road safety, and noise, the book explores the expanded responsibilities of the modern highway engineer as well as the increasing trend toward privatization of project development and financing. The next section considers technical issues in highway and pavement engineering, including materials, new mechanistic-empirical design approaches, and new closed-form solutions for backcalculation as well as deflection and stress computation in multi-slab systems. Rounding out the discussion, the final section examines construction, management, performance evaluation including nondestructive testing, and a chapter devoted to highway asset management.

Featuring contributions from eminent experts representing eight countries on four continents, The Handbook of Highway Engineering supplies all of the tools needed to manage the entire integrated process of modern highway development and engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849319860
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/28/2005
Pages:	884
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

T.F. Fwa

Table of Contents

HIGHWAY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES. Highway Financing. Access Management of Highways. Environmental Impacts Assessment of Highway Development. Highway Safety. Road Noise Control. FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF HIGHWAYS. Highway Geometric Design. Highway Materials. Design of Flexible Pavements. Design of Rigid Pavements. Design of Segmental Pavements. Overlay Design for Flexible Pavements. Overlay Design for Rigid Pavements. Highway Drainage Systems and Design. CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND MANAGEMENT OF HIGHWAYS. Highway Construction. Project Management in Highway Construction. Highway Maintenance. Highway Asset Management. Pavement Management Systems. Highway Condition Surveys and Serviceability Evaluation. Structural Evaluation of Highway Pavements. Pavement Skid Resistance Management. Bridge Management Systems. INDEX.

Editorial Reviews

T.F. Fwa is the Recipient of the ASCE 2005 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award "For his innovative research on highway and airport pavements and excellence in teaching and professional activities to enhance transportation engineering."
-Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE, 2005

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