Principles of transportation engineering /
Partha Chakroborty
- Second Edition.
- Delhi : PHI Learning Private Limited, c2023.
- xvi, 544 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. -- Part I : Traffic engineering. -- Chapter 1 : Properties of traffic engineering elements. -- Chapter 2 : Highway geometric design. -- Chapter 3 : Traffic low. -- Chapter 4 : Design of traffic facilities. -- Part II : Public transportation. -- Chapter 5 : Public transportation systems. -- Chapter 6 : Capacity of transit systems. -- Part III : Transportation planning. -- Chapter 7 : Transportation planning process. -- Chapter 8 : Transportation demand analysis. -- Part IV : Pavement engineering. -- Chapter 9 : Pavement material and characterization. -- Chapter 10 : Pavement analysis. -- Chapter 11 : Pavement design. -- Chapter 12 : Highway construction. -- Chapter 13 : Highway maintenance. -- Part V : Transport economic. -- Chapter 14 : Highway economics and finance. -- Bibliography. -- Index.
This book is design to serve as a comprehensive text for undergraduate as well as fires-year master's students of civil engineering in India. Now, in the second edition, the book incorporates a through revision and extension of topics covered in the previous edition. In order to keep the treatment focused, the emphasis is on roadways (highways) based transportation systems.