Traffic and Highway Engineering, Enhanced Edition
By Nicholas J. Garber, Lester A. Hoel
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Provide contemporary insights into all facets of today's traffic and highway engineering with this enhanced edition of Garber and Hoel's best-selling TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING, 5th Edition. The book's initial discussion highlights the pivotal role that transportation plays in today's society. Students examine employment opportunities that transportation creates, study its historical impact and explore the influence of transportation on modern daily life. With this approach students gain an accurate understanding of the field while considering some of transportation's unique challenges. Later chapters focus on specific issues facing present-day transportation engineers. Effective learning tools, such as worked problems, diagrams and tables, reference materials and realistic examples, further demonstrate how engineers apply transportation engineering principles in today's world.
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Provide contemporary insights into all facets of today's traffic and highway engineering with this enhanced edition of Garber and Hoel's best-selling TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING, 5th Edition. The book's initial discussion highlights the pivotal role that transportation plays in today's society. Students examine employment opportunities that transportation creates, study its historical impact and explore the influence of transportation on modern daily life. With this approach students gain an accurate understanding of the field while considering some of transportation's unique challenges. Later chapters focus on specific issues facing present-day transportation engineers. Effective learning tools, such as worked problems, diagrams and tables, reference materials and realistic examples, further demonstrate how engineers apply transportation engineering principles in today's world.
FIVE UNIQUE CATEGORIES ADDRESS ALL FACETS OF TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING TODAY. Distinctive parts guide readers through a thorough understanding of transportation. Part 1 introduces the profession, its history, systems and organizations. Part 2 focuses on traffic operations before leading to Part 3, which addresses transportation planning. Part 4 examines location, geometrics and drainage, and Part 5 prepares readers to work with various materials and pavements.
THIS COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT OF TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING EMPHASIZES PRACTICAL APPLICATION. The author approaches each aspect of study with an emphasis on how to apply the subject matter directly into practice in the field today. Students immediately see both the relevance and importance of what they are learning.
CONTEMPORARY CONTENT IS FLEXIBLE FOR USE AT UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE LEVEL. The author provides both introductory content and more advanced exploration of topics that makes this edition a strong choice for either undergraduate or graduate-level courses that emphasize highway and traffic engineering. This enhanced edition also emphasizes the latest developments impacting transportation today to ensure timely course presentation.
BOOK SERVES AS INVALUABLE STUDY GUIDE IN PREPARING FOR PROFESSIONAL EXAMS. Future and current professionals can use this book's focused content to prepare for the professional engineering license exam, for review courses or for graduate comprehensive exams in transportation engineering.
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