Download Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis Fifth Edition Edit By Fred L. Mannering and Scott S. Washburn
Contents Civil Engineering:
Chapter 1- Introduction to Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis
Chapter 2- Road Vehicle Performance
Chapter 3- Geometric Design of Highways
Chapter 4- Pavement Design
Chapter 5- Fundamentals of Traffic Flow and Queuing Theory
Chapter 6- Highway Capacity and Level-of-Service Analysis
Chapter 7- Traffic Control and Analysis at Signalized Intersections
Chapter 8- Travel Demand and Traffic Forecasting
Preface Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis :
The first four editions of Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis sought to redefine how entry-level transportation engineering courses are taught. When the first edition was published over two decades ago, there was a need for an entry-level transportation engineering book that focused exclusively on highway transportation and provided the depth of coverage needed to serve as a basis for future transportation courses as well as the material needed to answer questions likely to appear on the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and/or Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exams in civil engineering. The subsequent use of the various editions of this book, over the years, at some of the largest and most prestigious schools in the U.S. and throughout the world suggests that a vision of a concise, highly focused, and well written entry-level book is shared by many educators.
This fifth edition of Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis continues the spirit of the previous four editions by again focusing exclusively on highway transportation and providing the depth of coverage necessary to solve the highway-related problems that are most likely to be encountered in engineering practice. The focus on highway transportation is a natural one given the dominance of highway transportation for people and freight movement in the U.S. and throughout the world. While the focus on highway transportation is easily accomplished, identifying the highway-related problems most likely to be encountered in practice and providing an appropriate depth of coverage of them is a more challenging task. Using the first four editions as a basis, along with the comments of other instructors and students who have used previous editions of the book, topics that are fundamental to highway engineering and traffic analysis have been carefully selected. The material provided in this book ensures that students learn the fundamentals needed to undertake upper-level transportation courses, enter transportation employment with a basic knowledge of highway engineering and traffic analysis, and have the knowledge necessary to answer transportation-related questions on the civil engineering FE and PE exams.
Within the basic philosophical approach described above, this book addresses the concern of some that traditional highway transportation courses are not as mathematically challenging or rigorous as other entry-level civil engineering courses, and that this may affect student interest relative to other civil-engineering fields of study. This concern is not easily addressed because there is a dichotomy with regard to mathematical rigor in highway transportation, with relatively simple mathematics used in practice-oriented material and complex mathematics used in research. Thus it is common for instructors to either insult students’ mathematical knowledge or vastly exceed it. This book strives for that elusive middle ground of mathematical rigor that matches junior and senior engineering students’ mathematical abilities.
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