Highway and Transportation Engineering and Planning Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Transport and Society	3
Ch. 2	Transport and Government	19
Ch. 3	Transport Expertise	36
Ch. 4	Sources of Funding	43
Ch. 5	The Planning Process	53
Ch. 6	Data Collection, Storage and Retrieval	59
Ch. 7	Traffic Forecasting	92
Ch. 8	Route Planning and Selection	108
Ch. 9	Highway Link Design	121
Ch. 10	Highway Functions	144
Ch. 11	Application of Design Standards	152
Ch. 12	Junction Design	169
Ch. 13	Urban Traffic Control	205
Ch. 14	Computer Aided Highway Design	217
Ch. 15	Estate Roads	228
Ch. 16	Safety Engineering	236
Ch. 17	Environmental Objectives	247
Ch. 18	Environmental Impacts	258
Ch. 19	Minimisation of Environmental Impacts	277
Ch. 20	The Environmental Dilemma	281
Ch. 21	Objectives of Traffic Management	287
Ch. 22	Implementing Traffic Management	293
Ch. 23	Europe: the DRIVE Research Programme	318
Ch. 24	Traffic Calming	323
Ch. 25	Cost Benefit Analysis	341
Ch. 26	Return on Investment Criteria	350
Ch. 27	Where Do We Go From Here?	357
	Appendix A: List of Central Government Offices relevant to transport	367
	Appendix B: Horizontal alignment example	369
	Appendix C: Example of vertical alignment and application of superelevation	375
	Index	379