Fundamentals of transportation engineering - Hardcover

Papacostas, C. S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133448703 ISBN 13: 9780133448702

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1987

Synopsis

This detailed, interdisciplinary introduction to transportation engineering is ideal as both a comprehensive tutorial and reference. Begins with the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering mechanics, and gradually introduces new concepts concerning societal context, geometric design, human factors, traffic engineering, and simulation, transportation planning, evaluation. For prospective and practicing transportation engineers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A detailed, interdisciplinary introduction to transportation engineering.

From the Back Cover:

Here's where you can find comprehensive, unbiased, state-of-the-art knowledge on transportation engineering. With many new changes added to the successful first edition, this second edition boasts state-of-the-art tables, figures, and discussions ... exclusive coverage of transportation modes, urban transportation, traffic impact, traffic studies, and a presentation of traffic simulation and transportation planning software packages ... expanded coverage of flow interruptions (traffic intersections) that in cludes signalization technologies, signal timings, traffic survey methods, and principles of the analysis of unsignalized intersections ... new data on pavement structures ... a detailed presentation on transport behavior and modeling ... and many structural changes that make the information easier to follow and apply. Suitable for civil engineers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0133448703
• ISBN 13: 9780133448702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 458