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Engineering 21st century highways
Engineering 21st Century Highways
Rethinking America's Highways
Author: Robert W. Poole
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-08-03
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 022655760X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Highway Engineering
Author: Martin Rogers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1118378156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The repair, renovation and replacement of highway infrastructure, along with the provision of new highways, is a core element of civil engineering, so this book covers basic theory and practice in sufficient depth to provide a solid grounding to students of civil engineering and trainee practitioners. Moves in a logical sequence from the planning and economic justification for a highway, through the geometric design and traffic analysis of highway links and intersections, to the design and maintenance of both flexible and rigid pavements Covers geometric alignment of highways, junction and pavement design, structural design and pavement maintenance Includes detailed discussions of traffic analysis and the economic appraisal of projects Makes frequent reference to the Department of Transport’s Design Manual for Roads and Bridges Places the provision of roads and motorways in context by introducing the economic, political, social and administrative dimensions of the subject
Transportation Strategies for the 21st Century
Road Engineering for Development
Author: Richard Robinson
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 1482288206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions and different institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries. However, most textbooks on highway engineering are based on experience from industrialized countries with temperate climates, and deal only with specific problems. Road Engineering for Development (published as Highway and Traffic Engineering in Developing Countries in its first edition) provides a comprehensive description of the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads in developing countries. It covers a wide range of technical and non-technical problems that may confront road engineers working in this area. The technical content of the book has been fully updated and current development issues are focused on. Designed as a fundamental text for civil engineering students this book also offers a broad, practical view of the subject for practising engineers. It has been written with the assistance of a number of world-renowned specialist professional engineers with many years experience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Central America.
The Road Ahead
Author: Philip Tarnoff
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1612045324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →America's future depends on a vibrant highway system capable of supporting industry and the travel needs of its citizens. The country's highway system can trace its roots to the movements of major armies in colonial times, such as British General Braddock using George Washington's assistance in a disastrous attack of French forces defending Ft. Duquesne. These early roads developed into the engineering marvels of today's modern highway system. But this system is in serious trouble. Inadequate funding and poor management are responsible for its gradual deterioration, and along with it, the U.S. economy. A broad range of solutions can solve this problem, some of which involve transforming public transportation agencies into privately operated utilities. Many of these exciting solutions also offer the potential to solve America's funding problems. This book is must-reading for anyone concerned with America's future, as it shows us The Road Ahead... About the Author: Philip Tarnoff received an electrical engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a master's degree from New York University. He is retired from his most recent full-time job as director of a research center at the University of Maryland. Tarnoff was the president of a major transportation systems integrator and is currently working part-time as a consultant. He is also chairman of the board of a start-up company that produces devices for measuring traffic flow. He lives in Rockville, Maryland http: //SBPRA.com/PhilipTarnoff
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis
Author: Shaithis Orlov
Publisher:
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781681171692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The importance of highway transportation to the industrial and technological complex of the United States and other industrialized nations cannot be overstated. Virtually every aspect of modem economies, and the ways of life they support, can be tied directly or indirectly to highway transportation. From the movement of freight and people to the impact on residential, commercial, and industrial locations, highways have had, and continue to have, a profound effect on the world economy and societal development. In the United States, the manner in which highways have come to dominate the transportation system has been studied for decades as a cultural, political, and economic phenomenon. Without a doubt, the demand for unrestricted mobility and unlimited access to resources has played an important role and helped to quickly move highway transportation to its dominant position from the middle of the 20th century onward. The construction of the interstate highway system remains to this day the largest infrastructure project in human history. At the time, it underscored the nation's commitment to the unrestricted mobility of its populace and to the economic opportunities that such a system would provide its industrial and service industries. Today, additional highway expansion and maintenance of existing highway systems continue to represent an enormous investment in public infrastructure an investment with an immeasurable impact on society in terms of mobility, economic opportunities, and environmental implications, including consumption of resources and pollution. There is more demand than ever for highway engineers due to new highway projects throughout the country. This book interested engineers with the information needed to solve the highway-related problems that are most likely to be encountered in the field. It includes road vehicle performance, the geometric alignment of highways, pavement design, traffic analysis, queuing theory, signalized intersections, the assessment of level of service, and traffic forecasting.
