My Goals in this, sixth edition, is to picture the broad field of highway engineering as it is currently practiced and as it is likely to be for several years to come. While giving appropriate emphasis to fundamentals of highway engineering design, my colleagues and I have attempted to include materials in areas of emerging significance.
Readers familiar with the previous edition will find a better organized and more interesting chapter on transportation planning and additional material on social and environmental impacts. Faculty members who wish to treat the latter subjects in greater depth will be provided (In the Instructor’s Manual) a case study of Atlanta’s controversial Freedom Parkway Project, which, because of public opposition, extended over 30 years.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Highway Administration
Chapter 3 Transportation Planning
Chapter 4 Highway Evaluation
Chapter 5 Driver, Pedestrian, and Vehicle Characteristics
Chapter 6 Traffic Characteristics
Chapter 7 Geometric Design of Highways
Chapter 8 Roadside Designs
Chapter 9 Intersections, Interchanges, Terminals
Chapter 10 Highway Mass Transit Facilities
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