Currently there is no single textbook that addresses the fundamental geometric concepts of urban and rural road design. Traffic behavior has significantly changed over the last two decades and warrants newer methods for road design. Unlike the advances made in building, ship and aircraft design, road design is still carried out in a traditional way which is more than fifty years old. Starting from the traditional design process this book introduces a 3-dimensional geometric design process of urban and rural road design. It will prove to be a valuable textbook for undergraduate and graduate university students as well as road planning and design practitioners.
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Wolfgang KUHN is a professor of transportation at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where his research has been in the field of road design, especially the application of modern design techniques to that field.
Manoj K. JHA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, at Morgan State University, USA, as well as Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He has been a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland since 1997. His research interests are in Highway Design Optimization and Visualization, Highway Maintenance, Geographic Information Systems, Bayesian Network Application for Assessing Impacts of Extreme Events, and Game Theoretic Modeling under Uncertainty. Dr. Jha is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Dr. Jha is the co-author of the book Intelligent Road Design published by the WIT Press in 2006; he is also a contributor to the book Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition. He has also authored (or co-authored) more than 80 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings in the highway design, optimization, and transportation fields. For his scholastic and research achievements Dr. Jha has received several awards, among which are the 2005 and 2006 United Negro College Fund Special Programs/Department of Defense (UNCFSP/DoD) Faculty Development Award, the 2005 DHS Summer Faculty Research award by the START Center, University of Maryland, College Park, and 2005 NSF-PASI-TS (Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on Transportation Sciences) award by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has served as a principal investigator (PI), Co-PI, or collaborator with other researchers on numerous research projects totaling over $4 M. The key sponsoring agencies of his research projects include Army Research Lab., Maryland State Highway Administration, Federal Highway Administration, NSF, City of Baltimore, and several Baltimore area consulting firms.
Manoj K. JHA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, at Morgan State University, USA, as well as Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He has been a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland since 1997. His research interests are in Highway Design Optimization and Visualization, Highway Maintenance, Geographic Information Systems, Bayesian Network Application for Assessing Impacts of Extreme Events, and Game Theoretic Modeling under Uncertainty. Dr. Jha is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Dr. Jha is the co-author of the book Intelligent Road Design published by the WIT Press in 2006; he is also a contributor to the book Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition. He has also authored (or co-authored) more than 80 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings in the highway design, optimization, and transportation fields. For his scholastic and research achievements Dr. Jha has received several awards, among which are the 2005 and 2006 United Negro College Fund Special Programs/Department of Defense (UNCFSP/DoD) Faculty Development Award, the 2005 DHS Summer Faculty Research award by the START Center, University of Maryland, College Park, and 2005 NSF-PASI-TS (Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on Transportation Sciences) award by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has served as a principal investigator (PI), Co-PI, or collaborator with other researchers on numerous research projects totaling over $4 M. The key sponsoring agencies of his research projects include Army Research Lab., Maryland State Highway Administration, Federal Highway Administration, NSF, City of Baltimore, and several Baltimore area consulting firms.
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