The Road. General The Highway Network. Highway Design. Traffic Requirements To The Geometric Design Of Highways Tractive Effort And Perfomance Of Vehicles. Requirements Of Horizontal Road Elements. Design Of The Roadbed And Pavements Natural Factors Affecting Road Perfomance. Road Drainage. Design Of Roadbed. Pavement Design. Route Location Choice Of Route Location. Design Of...
3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2013, 855 p., ISBN: 0071597638 A Comprehensive Guide to Highway Engineering-Fully Updated with the Latest AASHTO Codes Maintaining and improving the nation's infrastructure is one of the most important challenges facing the United States, with the primary focus on highways and bridges. The Third Edition of Highway Engineering Handbook...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2009, 436 p., ISBN: 1402085613 Water in and beneath a road pavement has a major impact on the road's performance and its survivability. This book provides a state-of-the-art on the topic of water in pavements and the adjacent ground. It includes coverage of the basic theory; where the water comes from; how it may (or may not) be drained; the...
CRC Press, 2010. — 347 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4398-2685-0. As the world population grows, already burgeoning cities are becoming taxed in every conceivable way. One topic that receives few headlines, but significantly impacts an area’s quality of health and economic development is the challenge to maintain sustainable urban drainage (SUD). Poor drainage can hamper transportation, add...
New Delhi, October 2014 - 194 p. This document has been prepared as part of the technical assistance provided by the International Labour Organization to the Prime Minister’s Rural Road Programme (PMGSY). This technical collaboration with the National Rural Roads Development Agency is funded through the financing provided by the World Bank to the Rural Roads Project. Road...
Springer US, 1999. — 239 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4613-7384-1. Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity by including theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and...
CRC Press, 2014. — 823 p. Highway Engineering: Pavements, Materials and Control of Quality covers the basic principles of pavement management, highlights recent advancements, and details the latest industry standards and techniques in the global market. Utilizing the author’s more than 30 years of teaching, researching, and consulting experience, this text focuses on the...
CRC Press, 2014. — 866 p. — ISBN10: 146657996X, ISBN13: 978-1466579965 An International Textbook, from A to Z Highway Engineering: Pavements, Materials and Control of Quality covers the basic principles of pavement management, highlights recent advancements, and details the latest industry standards and techniques in the global market. Utilizing the author’s more than 30 years...
Spon Press, 2001. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0-203-34230-5 ; ISBN: 0-419-25760-8. External Works Roads and Drainage: A Practical Guide bridges the gap between theory and practice in building, construction and civil engineering, providing practical guidance, and the knowledge required 'on the job'. This comprehensive book includes sections on legislation, environmental issues, surface...
Macmillan Education UK, 1998. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-14678-9,978-1-349-14676-5. This book provides an up-to-date description of road maintenance management. Written primarily from a management perspective, it provides new insights into the relationship between the various functions involved in managing a modern road network. It has been developed based on the experience of...
Scribner, 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-1501103902 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1501103919 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1501103926 (ebook). From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of...
Sustrans, April 2014. — 36 p. This document is part of a suite of technical design guidance on active travel being developed by Sustrans. There is much useful material already available from a range of organisations, and this guidance from Sustrans aims to provide detailed technical advice on key issues around on and off highway cycle infrastructure whilst signposting users to...
Connecticut: New Haven, 1961. — 418 p. In 1956, the Congress of the United States authorized a long-term program of expanded highway construction, financed through special federal taxes paid by motor vehicle owners. The program is administered through the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, which has supervised all federal-aid highway projects since 1916. A key element of this...
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