Introduction to traffic engineering : a manual for data collection and analysis /
Thomas R. Currin
- Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, c2013
- ix, 143 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Spot Speed Study -- Determining Roadway Speeds -- Turning Movement Counts -- Assessing the Signalized Intersection I -- Vehicle Delay Study -- Assessing the Signalized Intersection II -- Parking Study -- On and Off Street Analysis -- Saturation Flow Rate -- Assessing the Signalized Intersection III -- Poisson Distribution -- Assessing the Signalized Intersection IV -- Queue Length -- Assessing the Signalized Intersection V -- Gap Study -- Capacity and the Unsignalized Intersection -- Traffic Compliance Study -- Obeying the Law -- Platoon Ratio -- Identifying Progressive Movement -- Vehicle Occupancy Study -- Measuring Persons per Vehicle -- Origin-Destination Study -- Where and When Do They Travel? -- Trip Generation -- Land Use and Trip Production.
Designed to aid the student of traffic engineering and the transportation engineering professional in sound data collection and analysis techniques by presenting step-by-step techniques for thirteen commonly encountered topics in the daily practice of traffic engineering.