Highway Engineering - Hardcover

Wright, Paul H.; Paquette, Radnor J.

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9780471826248: Highway Engineering
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471826243 ISBN 13: 9780471826248
Publisher: Wiley, 1987

Synopsis

This up-to-date edition of the classic text presents a broad overview of highway engineering and is the first to incorporate major changes in design standards from a policy on geometric design of highways and streets, published by AASHTO in 1984. Also includes changes in the 1985 Highway Capacity Manual. New chapters on computer applications in highway engineering and highway mass transit foundations have been added, as well as sections on engineering fabrics, reinforced earth embankments, and pavement recycling and rehabilitation. Includes an illustration of a typical highway design plan.

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From the Back Cover

New standards, current methods, and modern technology

Offering focused yet comprehensive coverage of the field of highway engineering, this Seventh Edition of Paul Wright and Karen Dixon’s classic text guides you though the latest standards and advances. You’ll explore the art of geometric design, roadside design, and approaches to the design of intersections and interchanges; learn modern methods for traffic control; and examine the most widely used technologies for highway materials and construction. In addition, the text features valuable background material on legislative, administrative, economic evaluation, traffic characteristics, as well as driver, pedestrian, and vehicle characteristics.

Features

  • Reflects changes in AASHTO’s publications, A Guide for Geometric Design of Highways and Streets and the Guide for Development of Bicycle Facilities.
  • Presents modern coverage of highway capacity to reflect changes in the Highway Capacity Manual.
  • Describes accepted procedures for traffic engineering and control, and includes the latest standards from the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Millennium Edition.
  • Offers a new section on the superpave mix design method as well as new material on the AASHTO method for the design of rigid pavements.
  • Provides significant coverage of pavements and the prevailing technology for highway maintenance and rehabilitation.

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Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
1987
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0471826243
ISBN 13 
9780471826248
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
5
Number of pages
736
Rating
  • 4.19 out of 5 stars
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