Highway and traffic engineering

Roadwork: Theory and Practice, now in its sixth edition, gives the essential information needed by every road worker, highway technician, incorporated, graduate or chartered engineer, not only by explaining the theory of road construction and its associated activities, but by illustrating its application with practical working methods that are in use in everyday engineering practice.

Bridges play important role in modern infrastructural system.

Bridges play important role in modern infrastructural system.

A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United States.

A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United States.

SUMMARYThis book provides complete coverage of surface and subsurface drainage of all types of pavements for highways, urban roads, parking lots, airports, and container terminals.

SUMMARYThis book provides complete coverage of surface and subsurface drainage of all types of pavements for highways, urban roads, parking lots, airports, and container terminals.

Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users.

Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users.

Since the end of World War II, European airlines have revealed their own operational style.

This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era.

This book brings together an international collection of original papers looking at the impacts of the recent liberalization measures in the transport sector.

Having provided theoretical models of such items as capacity, network, scheduling, costs, organisation, environment and forecasting, the author uses these models to compare and evaluate the city transport problems in London, Paris, Copenhagen and Los Angeles, as well as in Cairo, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro.

Major transport infrastructures are increasingly in the news as both the engineering and financing possibilities come together.

This important book is the first in-depth history of the Rhodesian railway system.

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This text explores the motives for attacks on maritime trade over the last five centuries and assesses the strategic utility of that form of naval action.

Transport policy has dramatically changed over the last ten years with major regulatory reforms and privatisation of transport enterprises.

An examination of the politics of international aviation.

This book offers a new look at the theory of traffic congestion, in the light of recent reassessments of the extensive surveys in London of traffic plans and speeds and, in particular, of journey speeds by all forms of transport.

For more than a century Blue Funnel ships, managed from Liverpool by Alfred Holt and Company, held a unique place in Britain's shipping industry.

This book presents a groundbreaking examination of the intricate dynamics shaping the customized bus (CB) service industry.

Many books focus on individual differences and how those relate to traffic safety such as accident proneness, gender differences, age, alcohol, and the effects of drugs.

Many books focus on individual differences and how those relate to traffic safety such as accident proneness, gender differences, age, alcohol, and the effects of drugs.

It is estimated that, in the United States, around 20 percent of all Police-reported road crashes involve driver distraction as a contributing factor.

It is estimated that, in the United States, around 20 percent of all Police-reported road crashes involve driver distraction as a contributing factor.

Governments and road safety agencies around the world have either introduced or are considering 'safe system' strategies, a long overdue acknowledgement that different elements of the road system contribute to road safety outcomes.

Governments and road safety agencies around the world have either introduced or are considering 'safe system' strategies, a long overdue acknowledgement that different elements of the road system contribute to road safety outcomes.

What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world?

What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world?

Covering a wide range of topics, Advances in Civil Engineering and Building Materials IV presents the latest developments in:- Structural Engineering- Road & Bridge Engineering- Geotechnical Engineering- Architecture & Urban Planning- Transportation Engineering- Hydraulic Engineering- Engineering Management- Computational Mechanics- Constru

This book presents a groundbreaking examination of the intricate dynamics shaping the customized bus (CB) service industry.

A basal reinforced piled embankment consists of a reinforced embankment on a pile foundation.

A basal reinforced piled embankment consists of a reinforced embankment on a pile foundation.

The transport sector consists of different modes of transport, each serving a growing demand for transporting people and goods.

In recognition of the importance of road safety as a major health issue, the World Health Organization has declared 2011-2021 the Decade of Safety Action.

Master the principles, analysis, and design in pavement engineeringThis student-friendly textbook offers comprehensive coverage of pavement design and highways.

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills.

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors.

This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors.

Global Automobile Demand is a two-volume work analysing the impact of the Great Recession and the structural factors which shape automobile demand in developed and emerging countries.

Global Automobile Demand is a two-volume work analysing the impact of the Great Recession and the structural factors which shape automobile demand in developed and emerging countries.

Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.

Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave's journal Maritime Economics and Logistics.