Highway Engineering / Edition 7

by Paul H. Wright, Karen Dixon, Michael Meyer, Karen K. Dixon

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471264613
Publisher:	Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	690
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Highway Administration.
Transportation Planning.
Highway Evaluation.
Driver, Pedestrian, and Vehicle Characteristics.
Traffic Characteristics.
Geometric Design of Highways.
Roadside Design.
Intersections, Interchanges, Terminals.
Highway Mass Transit Facilities.
Drainage and Drainage Structures.
Traffic Engineering.
Surveys, Plan, and Estimates.
Contracts and Supervision.
Highway Materials.
Flexible Pavement Design.
Earthwork Operations and Equipment.
Bases, Subbases, and Low-Cost Surfaces.
High-Type Bituminous Pavements.
Concrete Pavements.
Highway Maintenance and Rehabilitation.
Appendix.
Index.

Editorial Reviews

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)

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