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Highway Engineering
- Planning, Design, and Operations
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
Daniel J. Findley, Christopher M. Cunningham, Thomas H. Brown, Jr, Lorraine M. Cahill, Guangchuan Yang, …
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Highway Engineering: Planning, Design, and Operations, Second
Edition, presents a clear and rigorous exposition of highway
engineering concepts, including project development and the
relationship between planning, operations, safety and highway
types. The book includes important topics such as corridor
selection and traverses, horizontal and vertical alignment, design
controls, basic roadway design, cross section elements,
intersection and interchange design, and the integration of new
vehicle technologies and trends. It also presents end of chapter
exercises to further aid understanding and learning. This edition
has been fully updated with the current design policies and
reference manuals essential for highway, transportation, and civil
engineers who are required to work to these standards.
Introduction to Network Traffic Flow Theory: Principles, Concepts,
Models, and Methods provides a comprehensive introduction to modern
theories for modeling, mathematical analysis and traffic
simulations in road networks. The book breaks ground, addressing
traffic flow theory in a network setting and providing researchers
and transportation professionals with a better understanding of how
network traffic flows behave, how congestion builds and dissipates,
and how to develop strategies to alleviate network traffic
congestion. The book also shows how network traffic flow theory is
key to understanding traffic estimation, control, management and
planning. Users wills find this to be a great resource on both
theory and applications across a wide swath of subjects, including
road networks and reduced traffic congestion.
Structural Behavior of Asphalt Pavements provides engineers and
researchers with a detailed guide to the structural behavioral
dynamics of asphalt pavement including: pavement temperature
distribution, mechanistic response of pavement structure under the
application of heavy vehicles, distress mechanism of pavement, and
pavement deterioration performance and dynamic equations. An
authoritative guide for understanding the key mechanisms for
creating longer lasting pavements, Structural Behavior of Asphalt
Pavements describes the intrinsic consistency between macroscopic
performance and microscopic response, structure and material, as
well as global and local performances, and demonstrates the process
of pavement analyses and designs, approaching science from
empirical analyses.
About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and
pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green
Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on
pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation: Design
and Management Strategies explores different advanced paving
materials, their properties, and their associated advantages and
disadvantages. Relevant properties of pavement materials (e.g.
albedo, permeability, thermal conductivity, heat capacity and
evaporation rate) are measured in many cases using newly developed
methods.
Comprehensive and practical, Pavement Asset Management provides an
essential resource for educators, students and those in public
agencies and consultancies who are directly responsible for
managing road and airport pavements. The book is comprehensive in
the integration of activities that go into having safe and
cost-effective pavements using the best technologies and management
processes available. This is accomplished in seven major parts, and
42 component chapters, ranging from the evolution of pavement
management to date requirements to determining needs and priority
programming of rehabilitation and maintenance, followed by
structural design and economic analysis, implementation of pavement
management systems, basic features of working systems and finally
by a part on looking ahead. The most current methodologies and
practical applications of managing pavements are described in this
one-of-a-kind book. Real world up-to-date examples are provided, as
well as an extensive list of references for each part.
Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in
which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time,
efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a
good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel,
influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status,
comfort, variety - and many other factors that engineering
equations don't capture at all. As we near the practical, physical
limits of speed, capacity and punctuality, the greatest hope for a
brighter future lies in adapting transport to more human wants and
needs. Behavioural science has immense potential to improve the
design of roads, railways, planes and pavements - as well as the
ways in which we use them - but only when we embrace the messier
reality of transport for humans. This is the moment. Climate
change, the coronavirus pandemic and changing work-life priorities
have shaken up long-held assumptions. There is a new way forward.
This book maps out how to design transport for humans.
This is the fifth volume of a sub series on Road Vehicle Automation
published within the Lecture Notes in Mobility. Like in previous
editions, scholars, engineers and analysts from all around the
world have contributed chapters covering human factors, ethical,
legal, energy and technology aspects related to automated vehicles,
as well as transportation infrastructure and public planning. The
book is based on the Automated Vehicles Symposium which was hosted
by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Association for
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in San Francisco,
California (USA) in July 2017.
The book gathers selected papers presented at the KES International
Symposium on Smart Transportation Systems (KES-STS 2019). Modern
transportation systems have undergone a rapid transformation in
recent years. This has produced a range of vehicle technology
innovations such as connected vehicles, self-driving cars, electric
vehicles, Hyperloop, and even flying cars, and with them,
fundamental changes in transport systems around the world. The book
discusses current challenges, innovations and breakthroughs in
Smart Transportation Systems, as well as transport infrastructure
modeling, safety analysis, freeway operations, intersection
analysis, and other related cutting-edge topics.
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