Highway engineering: planning, design, and operations

This book helps readers maximize effectiveness in all facets of highway engineering including planning, design, operations, safety, and geotechnical engineering. It features a seven part treatment, beginning with a clear and rigorous exposition of highway engineering concepts. These include project...

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Hauptverfasser: Findley, Daniel J. (VerfasserIn), Schroeder, Bastian J. (VerfasserIn), Cunningham, Christopher M. (VerfasserIn), Brown, Thomas H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd. 2016
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Zusammenfassung:This book helps readers maximize effectiveness in all facets of highway engineering including planning, design, operations, safety, and geotechnical engineering. It features a seven part treatment, beginning with a clear and rigorous exposition of highway engineering concepts. These include project development, and the relationship between planning, operations, safety, and highway types (functional classification). Planning concepts and a four-step process overview are covered, along with trip generation, equations versus rates, trip distribution, and shortest path models equations versus rates. This is followed by parts concerning applications for horizontal and vertical alignment, highway geometric design, traffic operations, traffic safety, and civil engineering topics. --
Beschreibung:Includes index
References3. Horizontal and Vertical Alignment; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Corridor Selection; 3.2.1 Case Study; References; 3.3 Sight Distance; 3.3.1 Stopping and Decision Sight Distance; Reference; Stopping Sight Distance for Horizontal Curves; 3.3.2 Passing Sight Distance; 3.4 Highway Alignment; 3.4.1 Horizontal Alignment; Traverses; Horizontal Curve Fundamentals; Simple Horizontal Curves; Reverse Horizontal Curves; Compound Horizontal Curves; Spiral Horizontal Curves; Superelevation; Forces on a Vehicle in a Horizontal Curve; Horizontal Curve Design Process; 3.4.2 Vertical Alignment
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9780128013557
0128013559