Overview
Comprehensive book focusing solely on highway transportation. Contains treatment of highway administration and planning, evaluation, driver needs, geometric design, the nature of traffic flow and control, pavement design, and an extensive description of how highways are constructed and maintained.* Offers the very latest AASHTO codes and guidelines for highway design, construction, and beautification.
* Dr. Wright is widely recognized as an expert in highway safety.
Synopsis
New standards, current methods, and modern technology
Offering focused yet comprehensive coverage of the field of highway engineering, this Seventh Edition of Paul Wright and Karen Dixon’s classic text guides you though the latest standards and advances. You’ll explore the art of geometric design, roadside design, and approaches to the design of intersections and interchanges; learn modern methods for traffic control; and examine the most widely used technologies for highway materials and construction. In addition, the text features valuable background material on legislative, administrative, economic evaluation, traffic characteristics, as well as driver, pedestrian, and vehicle characteristics.
Features
- Reflects changes in AASHTO’s publications, A Guide for Geometric Design of Highways and Streets and the Guide for Development of Bicycle Facilities.
- Presents modern coverage of highway capacity to reflect changes in the Highway Capacity Manual.
- Describes accepted procedures for traffic engineering and control, and includes the latest standards from the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Millennium Edition.
- Offers a new section on the superpave mix design method as well as new material on the AASHTO method for the design of rigid pavements.
- Provides significant coverage of pavements and the prevailing technology for highway maintenance and rehabilitation.
Booknews
A text on highway engineering, covering highway administration, transportation planning, geometric design of highways, intersections, mass transit facilities, traffic engineering, materials, earthwork operations, and maintenance. Includes b&w photos and problems, and reference tables. This sixth edition incorporates expanded and updated material on emerging technologies in traffic control, social and environmental impacts, computer applications, roadside design, and flexible pavement design. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)