Transportation engineering basics

This text shows students how to use classroom knowledge to solve real- life transportation and traffic engineering problems. Each chapter is designed as lab work and provides background information, figures, tables, worksheets, and questions. Each lab is uniformly structured so that engineering students can easily see and understand the lab's objective. The text contains information on job opportunities, a section on software use, summaries of transportation Web sites, and a glossary. This second edition includes 10 new labs and incorporates changes resulting from new legislation. The authors are transportation engineers at consulting firms in California. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of worksheets -- Lab 1: Traffic control devices inventory -- Lab 2: Travel times and delay study -- Lab 3: Spot speed study -- Lab 4: Turning movement counts and peak hour factor -- Lab 5: Measurement of intersection delay -- Lab 6: Sight distance and gap study at intersections -- Lab 7: Saturation flow rate -- Lab 8: Level of service analysis -- Lab 9: Application of Poisson distribution -- Lab 10: Application of queueing analysis -- Lab 11: Parking analysis -- Lab 12: Pedestrian and bicycle facilities -- Lab 13: Travel demand forecasting -- Lab 14: Transit demand forecasting -- Lab 15: Transportation demand management -- Lab 16: Transportation system management -- Lab 17: Traffic impact studies -- Lab 18: Transportation and air quality management -- Lab 19: Transportation funding -- Lab 20: Intelligent transportation system -- Lab 21: Transportation system performance monitoring -- Lab 22: Transportation and politics -- Appendix A: Transportation journals and library and WWW sites and job sources -- Appendix B: Computer software applications in transportation and traffic engineering -- Bibliography -- Glossary of terms -- Acronyms -- Abb…