Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operation

By Beverly T Kuhn

Traffic, highway, and transportation design principles and practical applications


This comprehensive textbook clearly explains the many aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; traffic demand, flow, and control; and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues such as livable streets, automated vehicles, and smart cities are also discussed. You will get real-world case studies that highlight practical applications as well as valuable diagrams and tables that define transportation engineering terms and acronyms.

Coverage includes:


- An introduction to transportation engineering
- Geometric design
- Traffic flow theory
- Traffic control
- Capacity and level of service
- Highway safety
- Transportation demand
- Transportation systems management and operations
- Emerging topics

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1260019578
• ISBN13: 9781260019575
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.3"