Route Location and Design

By Thomas Felix Hickerson

This text presents the basic principles governing the location and design of transportation systems with particular reference to highways. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070286809
• ISBN13: 9780070286801
• Release Date: June 1967
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Best I've found

This book, without a doubt, is the best reference book I have found for matters concerning horizontal and vertical geometry related to highways and railroads.

Excellent Highway Design Reference

This is an in depth reference for every aspect of horizontal and vertical geometry. Contains base theory, then all of the necessary equations for calculating sight distances, vertical curve lengths, horizontal and vertical curve obstructions. Some of the values used should be cross-referenced with values from the AASHTO Green Book, as some of the design values in the book may be out of date. Also discusses spiral curves, compund curves, unsymmetrical vertical curves. There are equations, detail narratives, and example problems in this book, that I have not seen in any other manual. An excellent companion to your Green Book, CERM, and HCM.

Excellent reference for Highway and Railroad work

This book is an excellent reference if you are performing any type of engineering or surveying work that involves spiral or vertical curves. Though it is an older book, the collection of formulas is unsurpassed. Just ignore the pictures of '57 Chevys cruising down the highways. :)