Transportation Engineering

Contents: Preface. 1. Highway Development Planning, Programs and Surveys. 2. Highway Geometric Design. 3. Design Guidelines of Intersections. 4. Traffic Engineering and Control. 5. Traffic Regulation, Control and Devices. 6. Pavement Materials: Soils and Stone Aggregate. 7. Pavement Materials: Bituminous Binders and Bituminous Paving Mixes. 8. Pavement Materials: Portland Cement and Cement Concrete. 9. Factors Affecting Pavement Design and Performance. 10. Analysis and Design of Flexible Pavements. 11. Analysis and Design of Rigid Pavements. References. Index.

Transportation Engineering conforms to the syllabus of transportation engineering prescribed by AICTE for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. The book includes the latest IRC codes and discusses in detail the functional system characteristics of highway development and planning. It delineates the highway standards and constraints to be considered for arriving at an optimal geometric design for efficient vehicular and pedestrian traffic. It also explains the analysis of different types of vehicle and traffic data collected as part of pavement, component and function studies.