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The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE, 1991a) defines transportation engineering as "the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation, and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
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green signal time, geometric design guidelines, effective green time, service flow rate, basic freeway segments, pavement design procedure, weaving segments, serviceability loss, directional segments, saturation flow rate, pavement design methods, allowable repetitions, sight triangles, major weave, passing sight distance, stopping sight distance, peak hour factor, passenger car equivalents, dilemma zone, ramp junctions, average end area method, truck factor, transportation planning process, trial thickness, serviceability index
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Green Book, Highway Capacity Manual, Asphalt Institute, Configuration Unconstrained, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Portland Cement Association, New York, Traffic Flow Characteristics, Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, Transportation Research Board
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