Introduction to transportation engineering
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Introduction to transportation engineering
（McGraw-Hill series in transportation）
WCB/McGraw-Hill, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A detailed introduction to the techniques of analysis and design in transportation engineering, this text is intended to be used as a one semester course. More topics than could be covered in that time are included, in order to give lecurers flexibility in their choice. The emphasis is on practicality, for the text includes many example problems, along with written, computer programming and spreadsheet exercises. The text aims to balance planning, design and operations, in terms of discourse.
Table of Contents
- Transportation system issues and challenges
- introduction to phusical design of transportation facilities
- goemetric design
- earthwork
- surface and guideways
- traffic analysis techniques
- traffic flow
- capacity and level of service
- traffic control
- transit operations
- transportation demand analysis
- transportation planning
- transportation project evaluation
- references
- problems
- exercises
- computer exercises.
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