Preface |
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis |
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1.2 Highways and the Economy |
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1.2.1 The Highway Economy |
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1.2.3 Economic Development |
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1.3 Highways, Energy, the Environment, and Climate Change |
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1.4 Highways as Part of the Transportation System |
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1.5 Highway Transportation and the Human Element |
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1.5.1 Passenger Transportation Modes and Traffic Congestion |
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1.6 Highways and Evolving Technologies |
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1.6.1 Infrastructure Technologies |
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1.6.2 Traffic Control Technologies |
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1.6.3 Vehicle and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies |
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Chapter 2 Road Vehicle Performance |
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2.2 Tractive Effort and Resistance |
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2.3 Aerodynamic Resistance |
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2.6 Available Tractive Effort |
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2.6.1 Maximum Tractive Effort |
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2.6.2 Engine-Generated Tractive Effort |
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2.9 Principles of Braking |
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2.9.2 Braking Force Ratio and Efficiency |
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2.9.3 Antilock Braking Systems |
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2.9.4 Theoretical Stopping Distance |
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2.9.5 Practical Stopping Distance |
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2.9.6 Distance Traveled During Driver Perception/Reaction |
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Chapter 3 Geometric Design of Highways |
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3.2 Principles of Highway Alignment |
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3.3.1 Vertical Curve Fundamentals |
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3.3.2 Stopping Sight Distance |
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3.3.3 Stopping Sight Distance and Crest Vertical Curve Design |
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3.3.4 Stopping Sight Distance and Sag Vertical Curve Design |
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3.3.5 Passing Sight Distance and Crest Vertical Curve Design |
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3.3.6 Underpass Sight Distance and Sag Vertical Curve Design |
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3.4.2 Horizontal Curve Fundamentals |
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3.4.3 Stopping Sight Distance and Horizontal Curve Design |
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3.5 Combined Vertical and Horizontal Alignment |
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Chapter 4 Pavement Design |
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4.3 Pavement System Design: Principles for Flexible Pavements |
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4.4 Traditional AASHTO Flexible-Pavement Design Procedure |
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4.4.1 Serviceability Concept |
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4.4.2 Flexible-Pavement Design Equation |
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4.5 Pavement System Design: Principles for Rigid Pavements |
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4.6 Traditional AASHTO Rigid-Pavement Design Procedure |
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4.8 Measuring Pavement Quality and Performance |
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4.8.1 International Roughness Index |
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4.8.2 Friction Measurements |
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4.9 Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design |
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Chapter 5 Fundamentals of Traffic Flow and Queuing Theory |
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5.2 Traffic Stream Parameters |
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5.2.1 Traffic Flow, Speed, and Density |
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5.3 Basic Traffic Stream Models |
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5.3.1 Speed-Density Model |
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5.4 Models of Traffic Flow |
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5.4.2 Limitations of the Poisson Model |
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5.5 Queuing Theory and Traffic Flow Analysis |
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5.5.1 Dimensions of Queuing Models |
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5.6 Traffic Analysis at Highway Bottlenecks |
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5.7 Impact of Autonomous Vehicles |
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Chapter 6 Highway Capacity and Level-of-Service Analysis |
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6.2 Level-of-Service Concept |
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6.3 Level-of-Service Determination |
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6.3.1 Base Conditions and Capacity |
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6.3.2 Determine Free-Flow Speed |
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6.3.3 Determine Analysis Flow Rate |
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6.3.4 Calculate Service Measure(s) and Determine LOS |
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6.4 Basic Freeway Segments |
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6.4.1 Speed versus Flow Rate Relationship |
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6.4.2 Base Conditions and Capacity |
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6.4.4 Determine Free-Flow Speed |
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6.4.5 Determine Analysis Flow Rate |
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6.4.6 Calculate Density and Determine LOS |
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6.5 Multilane Highway Segments |
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6.5.1 Speed versus Flow Rate Relationship |
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6.5.2 Base Conditions and Capacity |
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6.5.4 Determining Free-Flow Speed |
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6.5.5 Determining Analysis Flow Rate |
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6.5.6 Calculate Density and Determine LOS |
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6.7 Design Traffic Volumes |
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Chapter 7 Traffic Control and Analysis at Signalized Intersections |
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7.2 Intersection and Signal Control Characteristics |
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7.2.2 Signal Controller Operation |
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7.3 Traffic Flow Fundamentals for Signalized Intersections |
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7.4 Development of a Traffic Signal Phasing and Timing Plan |
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7.4.1 Select Signal Phasing |
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7.4.2 Establish Analysis Lane Groups |
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7.4.3 Calculate Analysis Flow Rates and Adjusted Saturation Flow Rates |
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7.4.4 Determine Critical Lane Groups and Total Cycle Lost Time |
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7.4.5 Calculate Cycle Length |
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7.4.6 Allocate Green Time |
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7.4.7 Calculate Change and Clearance Intervals |
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7.4.8 Check Pedestrian Crossing Time |
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7.5 Analysis of Traffic at Signalized Intersections |
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7.5.1 Signalized Intersection Analysis with D/D/1 Queuing |
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7.5.2 Signal Coordination |
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7.5.3 Control Delay Calculation for Level of Service Analysis |
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7.5.4 Level-of-Service Determination |
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Chapter 8 Travel Demand and Traffic Forecasting |
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8.3 Scope of the Travel Demand and Traffic Forecasting Problem |
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8.4.1 Typical Trip Generation Models |
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8.4.2 Trip Generation with Count Data Models |
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8.5 Mode and Destination Choice |
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8.5.1 Methodological Approach |
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8.5.2 Logit Model Applications |
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8.6.1 Highway Performance Functions |
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8.6.3 Mathematical Programming Approach to User Equilibrium |
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8.6.4 System Optimization |
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8.7 Autonomous Vehicles, Highway Performance Functions, and System Optimization |
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8.8 Traffic Forecasting in Practice |
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8.9 The Traditional Four-Step Process |
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8.10 The Current State of Travel Demand and Traffic Forecasting |
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Appendix 8A Least Squares Estimation |
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Appendix 8B Maximum-Likelihood Estimation |
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Problems |
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Index |
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