Research Catalog

Title

Transportation and traffic engineering handbook / Institute of Traffic Engineers ; John E. Baerwald, editor, associate editors, Matthew J. Huber, Louis E. Keefer.

Publication

• Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
• ©1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baerwald, John Edward, 1925-
• Huber, Matthew J. (Professor of transportation engineering)
• Keefer, Louis E.
• Institute of Traffic Engineers.

Description

viii, 1080 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Emphasizes the major elements of total transportation planning, particularly as they relate to traffic engineering. Updates essential facts about the vehicle, the highway and the driver, and all matters related to these three principal concerns of the traffic engineer.

Subject

• Traffic engineering
• Transportation
• Transportation
• traffic engineering
• transportation
• Transportation planning
• Highway traffic control
• Highway design

Note

• Published 1941-65 under title: Traffic engineering handbook.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Vehicle, highway and travel facts -- Vehicle operating characteristics -- Driver and pedestrian characteristics -- General traffic characteristics -- Urban travel characteristics -- Mass transportation characteristics -- Traffic flow theory -- Highway capacity -- Traffic accident analysis -- Traffic studies -- Computer applications -- Urban transportation planning. -- Statewide and regional transportation planning -- Geometric design -- Parking, loading, and terminal facilities -- Traffic signs and markings -- Traffic signals -- Speed regulations and other operational controls -- Traffic surveillance and control -- Lighting of traffic facilities -- Environmental considerations in traffic engineering -- Traffic engineering administration -- Application of systems concepts.

ISBN

• 0139305785
• 9780139305788

LCCN

75006534

OCLC

• ocm01866632
• 1866632
• SCSB-9136456

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library