Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering

A multimodal System Approach

Jon Fricker, Robert Whitford

776 pages, parution le 04/05/2004

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Résumé

For Transportation Engineering courses.
Combining topics that are essential in an introductory course with information that is of interest to those who want to know why certain things in transportation are the way they are, the text provides a strong emphasis of the relationship between the phases of a transportation project. The text familiarizes students with the standard terminology and resources involved in transportation engineering, provide realistic scenarios for students to analyze and offers numerous examples designed to develop problem solving skills.

Features

Non-automobile modes addressed completely - Public transit, air transportation and freight modes, provides students with more complete coverage of these modes including planning, design and operational aspects, then is available in other texts.
Purposeful, but flexible sequence of topics, enables instructors to start with a familiar topic (traffic) before addressing the planning-design-operations sequence that follows.
Ongoing case study of a single regions called “Mythaca.", show students the interconnections between many transportation issues.
Inductive style - Each chapter begins with a scenario designed to orient students to a transportation problem that might confront a transportation engineer, enables students to analyze transportation problems presented with a reasonable level of proficiency.
Scenarios, examples and homework problems based on the extensive experience of the authors, holds students interest with substantive, real world examples.
Spreadsheets summarize data and solve problems, enables students to reinforce their understanding of the relationships spreadsheets contain.
Numerous illustrations, provides students with visual reinforcement of material.
Traditional, standard transportation engineering bridged with needs of future transportation engineering, provides students with an explicit treatment of contemporary issues that a transportation engineer faces.
Special Discussion boxes, provides students with highlighted topics and concepts to reinforce material.

Sommaire

Transportation Basics
Traffic Flow: Theory and Analysis
Highway Design for Performance
Modeling Transportation Demand and Supply
Planning and Evaluation for Decision-Making
Safety on the Highway
Design of Highway for Safety
Design of Intersections for Safety and Efficiency
Highway Design for Rideability (Pavement Design)
Public Mass Transportation
Air Transportation and Airports
Moving Freight
Towards a Sustainable Transportation System

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Pearson
Auteur(s)	Jon Fricker, Robert Whitford
Parution	04/05/2004
Nb. de pages	776
Format	18 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1275g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780130351241
ISBN13	978-0-13-035124-1