The best-selling, newly updated Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, 6th Edition, provides 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 appropriate in light of the dominance of the highway mode in the U.S. and available employment opportunities. The textbook is co-authored by Dr. Scott Washburn, a member of the transportation group at UFTI.
Instructors can be confident their students are learning the fundamentals needed to undertake upper-level transportation courses, enter transportation employment with a basic knowledge of highway and traffic engineering, and answer transportation-related questions on the Fundamentals of Civil Engineering and Professional Engineering exams.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis
2. Road Vehicle Performance
3. Geometric Design of Highways
4. Pavement Design
5. Fundamentals of Traffic Flow and Queuing Theory
6. Highway Capacity and Level-of Service Analysis
7. Traffic Control and Analysis at Signalized Intersections
8. Travel Demand and Traffic Forecasting
New to This Edition
- New standards updates. All chapters are updated to the latest design/evaluation standards including the Highway Capacity Manual 6th Edition (2016).
- New pedagogical approach: practice problems. This new pedagogical feature significantly improves the effectiveness of the text. The new practice problems are challenging, and are designed to improve student comprehension and confidence.
- New example and end-of-chapter problems. Many new example and end-of chapter problems have been added to further improve the pedagogical effectiveness of the book.
- New autonomous vehicle problems. To introduce students to the topic of autonomous vehicles and the potential benefits of this emerging technology, several examples on this topic have been added.
- The solutions manual is now available to anyone (note that the problem statements are only contained in the textbook), and will now be distributed via the Microsoft Store. It will be available at no cost (through a coupon code) to faculty who adopt the textbook for their class. For others, there is a fee of $24.99. For more information about the solutions manual, please contact Dr. Washburn (swash@ce.ufl.edu).