Traffic and Highway Engineering, Enhanced Edition / Edition 5

by Nicholas J. Garber, Lester A. Hoel

Overview

Gain 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, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781337631020
Publisher:	CL Engineering
Publication date:	01/01/2019
Series:	MindTap Course List
Edition description:	Enhanced
Pages:	1312
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Nicholas J. Garber is the Henry L. Kinnier Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he served as Chairman of the Department from 1996 to 2002. Before joining the University of Virginia, Dr. Garber was Professor of Civil Engineering in the faculty of engineering at the University of Sierra Leone, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, he played an important role in the development of the graduate program in transportation engineering. For several years he was a design engineer for consulting engineering firms in London, and he also worked as an area engineer and assistant resident engineer in Sierra Leone.

Lester A. Hoel is the L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Virginia. He held the Hamilton Professorship in Civil Engineering from 1974 to 1999. From 1974 to 1989, he was Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. Before this, he served as Professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Director at the Transportation Research Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hoel is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Table of Contents

Part 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.