Highway planning, survey, and design / Ghazi G. Al-Khateeb

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover
Half-Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Author's Bio
Acknowledgments
PART I URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
Chapter 1 Terminology
Chapter 2 Travel Demand Forecasting
Trip Generation
Trip Distribution
Transport Mode Choice
Traffic Assignment
Multiple- Choice Questions and Answers for Chapter 1
PART II HIGHWAY SURVEY
Chapter 3 Terminology
Chapter 4 Errors
Chapter 5 Leveling
Chapter 6 Angle Measurement and Traverse
Chapter 7 Areas, Earthwork Volumes, and Mass Haul Diagrams Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers for Chapter 3
PART III GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF HIGHWAYS
Chapter 8 Introduction and Standards
Chapter 9 Highway Design Criteria
Chapter 10 Design of Vertical Curves
Chapter 11 Design of Horizontal Curves and Superelevation
Chapter 12 Design of Other Facilities
Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers for Chapter 8
References
Index

Highway Planning, Survey, and Design presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate alternatives of transportation systems and roadway horizontal and vertical alignments and to forecast travel demand using variety of trip forecasting models to ultimately achieve greater safety, sustainability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. It provides in-depth coverage of the major areas of transportation engineering and includes a broad range of practical problems and solutions, related to theory, concepts, practice, and applications. Solutions for each problem follow step-by-step procedures that include the theory and the derivation of the formulas and computations where applicable. Additionally, numerical methods, linear algebraic methods, and least squares regression techniques are presented to assist in problem solving. Features: Presents coverage of major areas in transportation engineering: urban transportation planning, highway surveying, and geometric design of highways. Provides solutions to numerous practical problems in transportation engineering including terminology, theory, practice, computation, and design. Offers downloadable and user-friendly MS Excel spreadsheets as well as numerical methods and optimization tools and techniques. Includes several practical case studies throughout. Implements a unique approach in presenting the different topics. Highway Planning, Survey, and Design will help academics and professionals alike to find practical solutions across the broad spectrum of transportation engineering issues.