Author: David A. NoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Safety Evaluation of Centerline Rumble Strips
Author: David A. NoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Author: Report
Author: NCHRP Report 641
Author: Roadside Design Guide
Author: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Transportation Decision Making
Author: Kumares C. SinhaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118169662
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Uniform Vehicle Code and Model Traffic Ordinance
Author: National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and OrdinancesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
National Vital Statistics Reports
Author: National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mortality
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This periodical publishes birth, death, marriage, and divorce provisional statistics for the United States.
Median Cross-section Design for Rural Divided Highways
Author: Jerry L. Graham (Verkehrsingenieur.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309308199
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 794: Median Cross-Section Design for Rural Divided Highways provides guidelines for designing typical cross-sections for medians on new and existing rural freeways and divided highways."--Publisher's description.
Managing Speed
Author: Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309065023
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
TRB Special Report 254 - Managing Speed: Review of Current Practices for Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits reviews practices for setting and enforcing speed limits on all types of roads and provides guidance to state and local governments on appropriate methods of setting speed limits and related enforcement strategies. Following an executive summary, the report is presented in six chapters and five appendices.