Traffic and Highway Engineering, Enhanced Edition | 5 Edition

Details about Traffic and Highway Engineering, Enhanced Edition:

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.