Highway design and traffic safety engineering handbook
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Highway design and traffic safety engineering handbook
（McGraw-Hill handbooks）
McGraw-Hill, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (38 p.) and index (7 p.)
"Personal information" (3 p.) and "About the authors": back of index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Truly unique, this is the first book to present a thoroughly scientific and practical approach to designing highways for maximum safety. Based on original research plus scrupulously collected data amassed over more two decades in different continents by the main author, this important book originates vital criteria for safe design and shows you how best to achieve roads with the lowest possible accident risk and severity rates. A true must-read for highway engineers and safety officials, Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook provides up-to-date information that is available nowhere else and a complete, practical program for designing the safest possible roadways. The authors, who are noted international authorities on highway safety, give you essential information on sound new designs, design cases to avoid, examples of good and poor solutions, the redesign of existing roads, and far more. In addition, this valuable and necessary resource gives you serious help coordinating safety concerns with important economic, environmental, and aesthetic considerations. The new standard in highway design methods, this book will become a keystone in every highway designer's library.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Conversion Factors List of Acronyms PART 1: NETWORK (NW) Chapter 1: The Concept of Functional Classification Chapter 2: Principles for Road Network Design Chapter 3: Classification of Roads Chapter 4: Transition to the Following Design Parts PART 2: ALIGNMENT OF NONBUILT-UP ROADS (AL) Chapter 5: Introductory Considerations Chapter 6: Overview Chapter 7: Basic Procedure in Road Planning and Design with Special Emphasis on Environmental Protection Issues Chapter 8: Relevant Speeds Chapter 9: Safety Criteria I and II Chapter 10: Driving Dynamics and Safety Criterion III Chapter 11: General Alignment Issues with Respect to Safety Chapter 12: Horizontal Alignment Chapter 13: Vertical Alignment Chapter 14: Design Elements of Cross Section Chapter 15: Sight Distance Chapter 16: Three-Dimensional Alignment Chapter 17: Limiting Values of Design Elements Chapter 18: Safety Evaluation Processes for Two-Lane Rural Roads Chapter 19: Human Factors Chapter 20: Road Safety Worldwide Chapter 21: Summary of Part 2 "Alignment" PART 3: CROSS SECTIONS OF NONBUILT-UP ROADS (CS) Chapter 22: Methodical Procedure Chapter 23: Overview Chapter 24: Fundamentals for the Dimensions of the Cross-Sectional Design Elements Chapter 25: Cross Section Design Chapter 26: Summary of Part 3 "Cross Sections" References Index
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