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The definitive transportation engineering resource--fully revised and updatedThe two-volume Handbook of Transportation Engineering, Second Edition offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the entire transportation engineering field. Featuring 18 new chapters and contributions from nearly 70 leading experts, this authoritative work discusses all types of transportation systems--freight, passenger, air, rail, road, marine, and pipeline--and provides problem-solving engineering, planning, and design tools and techniques with examples of successful applications. Volume II focuses on applications in automobile and non-automobile transportation, and on safety and environmental issues.
VOLUME II COVERS:
Traffic engineering analysisTraffic origin-destination estimationTraffic congestionHighway capacityTraffic control systems: freeway management and communicationsTraffic signalsHighway sign visibilityTransportation lightingGeometric design of streets and highwaysIntersection and interchange designPavement engineering: flexible and rigid pavementsPavement testing and evaluationBridge engineeringTunnel engineeringPedestriansBicycle transportationSpectrum of automated guideway transit (AGT) and its applicationsRailway vehicle engineeringRailway track designImprovement of railroad yard operationsModern aircraft design techniquesAirport designAir traffic control systems designShip designPipeline engineeringTraffic safetyTransportation hazardsHazardous materials transportationIncident managementNetwork security and survivabilityOptimization of emergency evacuation plansTransportation noise issuesAir quality issues in transportationTransportation and climate change
- ISBN10 0071614788
- ISBN13 9780071614788
- Publish Date 8 March 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Education
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 1008
- Language English