Highway Engineering

This book helps readers maximize effectiveness in all facets of highway engineering including planning, design, operations, safety, and geotechnical engineering. Highway Engineering: Planning, Design, and Operations 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.

• Covers traffic flow relationships and traffic impact analysis, collision analysis, road safety audits, advisory speeds
• Applications for horizontal and vertical alignment, highway geometric design, traffic operations, traffic safety, civil engineering topics
• Engineering considerations for highway planning design and construction are included, such as hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, and structural engineering

Highway Engineers, and Transportation Engineers

• Part 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • References
  • 1.2 Organization of the Book
  • 1.3 Functional Classifications of Highway
  • 1.4 Types of Intersections
• Part 2. Transportation Planning
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Planning Concepts and Four-Step Process Overview
  • 2.3 Trip Generation
  • 2.4 Trip Distribution
  • 2.5 Mode Choice
  • 2.6 Traffic Assignment
  • 2.7 Travel Demand Model Applications
  • 2.8 Practice Problems
  • References
• Part 3. Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Corridor Selection
  • References
  • 3.3 Sight Distance
  • 3.4 Highway Alignment
  • 3.5 Practice Problems
• Part 4. Highway Geometric Design
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Design Controls
  • 4.3 Basic Highway Segments
  • 4.4 Cross-Section Elements
  • 4.5 Intersection Design
  • 4.6 Interchange Design
  • 4.7 Practice Problems
  • References
• Part 5. Traffic Operations
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Traffic Flow Fundamentals
  • 5.3 Uninterrupted Flow
  • 5.4 Interrupted Flow
  • 5.5 Traffic Signals and Signal Timing
  • 5.6 Practice Problems
  • References
• Part 6. Traffic Safety
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Road Safety Audits
  • 6.3 Conflict Analysis
  • 6.4 Collision Analysis
  • 6.5 Practice Problems
• Part 7. Geotechnical
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Soil Sampling and Testing Analysis
  • 7.3 Soil Classification
  • 7.4 Phase Relations
  • 7.5 Compaction
  • 7.6 Consolidation
  • 7.7 Summary
  • 7.8 Practice Problems
• Part 8. Structures
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Components of a Bridge System
  • 8.3 Steel Beam Design
  • 8.4 Hammerhead Design
  • 8.5 Column Design
  • 8.6 Pile Footing Design
  • 8.7 Summary
  • 8.8 Practice Problems
• Part 9. Hydraulics
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Design Preliminaries
  • 9.3 Rational Method
  • 9.4 Open Channel Flow
  • 9.5 Inlets and Weirs
  • 9.6 Flow in Pipes
  • 9.7 Practice Problems
• Index