Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations - Couverture rigide

Kuhn, Beverly T.

 
9781260019575: Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1260019578 ISBN 13 : 9781260019575
Editeur : McGraw-Hill Education, 2019

Synopsis

Traffic, highway, and transportation design principles and practical applications


This comprehensive textbook clearly explains the many aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; traffic demand, flow, and control; and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues such as livable streets, automated vehicles, and smart cities are also discussed. You will get real-world case studies that highlight practical applications as well as valuable diagrams and tables that define transportation engineering terms and acronyms.

Coverage includes:


- An introduction to transportation engineering
- Geometric design
- Traffic flow theory
- Traffic control
- Capacity and level of service
- Highway safety
- Transportation demand
- Transportation systems management and operations
- Emerging topics


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À propos de l?auteur

Beverly Thompson Kuhn, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, is a Senior Research Engineer and Division Head with the prestigious Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). She has taught introductory transportation engineering courses at both Texas A&M University and Penn State University and has authored numerous papers and publications, including chapters in McGraw-Hill's Handbook of Transportation Engineering, and is an active member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

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Éditeur
McGraw-Hill Education
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1260019578
ISBN 13 
9781260019575
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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