The new edition of Garber and Hoel's best-selling text focuses on giving students insight into all facets of traffic and highway engineering. Students generally come to this course with little knowledge or understanding of the importance of transportation, much less of the extensive career opportunities within the field. Transportation is an extremely broad field, and courses must either cover all transportation modes or focus on specifics. While many topics can be covered with a survey approach, this often lacks sufficient depth and students leave the course without a full understanding of any of the fields. This text focuses exclusively on traffic and highway engineering beginning with a discussion of the pivotal role transportation plays in our society, including employment opportunities, historical impact, and the impact of transportation on our daily lives. This approach gives students a sense of what the field is about as well as an opportunity to consider some of its challenges. Later chapters focus on specific issues facing transportation engineers. The text uses pedagogical tools such as worked problems, diagrams and tables, reference material, and realistic examples to demonstrate how the material is applied.
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Easy to follow, good examples, and comprehensive coverage of subject.I still consider this the best text on the market for our undergraduate students.
I like that it covers most of the topics I find interesting and I feel should be covered --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
I like that it covers most of the topics I find interesting and I feel should be covered --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Very comprehensive and well written,
By David R. Martinelli "David R. Martinelli, PhD" (West Virginia University) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Traffic and Highway Engineering: Revised (Hardcover)
As the transportation professor at West Virginia University, I take issue with the review from Braxton Lewis (one of my former students). This book does not have errors and we have been using it at West Virginia University for 12 years and will continue to do so.
The book covers all the major concepts needed to prepare students for advanced courses in transportation. Each chapter is well-written and gives just the right level of detail and technical content. One very nice feature is that the book includes the charts, tables, etc from the desigh guides where appropriate. This way, the concepts are presented cleanly without students having to fumble through the various codes and design guides as they try to learn the concepts.
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I purchased this book to review Transportation Engineering for my PE exam. This is a GREAT textbook. It includes an overview of all the important transportation topics in an easy to understand format with illustrative examples. I do warn, however, that there are a few key typos, but overall, this helped me immensely in my preparation for the PE exam.
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Correction for earlier posted review,
By Braxton V. Lewis "Braxton V. Lewis, EI, OHC" (Morgantown, WV United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Traffic and Highway Engineering: Revised (Hardcover)
My review of "Traffic and Highway Engineering" posted March 31, 2003 was mistakenly attached to this Newer "Revised" Edition of the text. The original review, for an earlier version-ISBN: 0534387438, was left while I was an undergraduate student of West Virginia University's Civil Engineering program.
I am not familiar with this Revised Edition and therefore cannot comment on it. Thank you Dr. Martinelli for pointing out this error.
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signalized intersections, intersection design, intersection control, traffic engineering studies, directional segments, tandem axle, national highway system, single axle, directional split, avoidance maneuver, percent passing, national transportation statistics, implementation package, vehicle classification, vehicles per hour, transportation decision making, actual green time, multilane approach, critical lane volume, average passenger car speed, lane utilization factor, effective green time, pedestrian occupancy, total approach volume, midpoint arc elasticity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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All Rights Reserved, Cengage Learning, Department of Transportation, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Capacity Manual, Transportation Planning, Geometric Design of Highway Facilities, Highway Safety, United States, Design of Rigid Pavements, Level of Service, Repeat Problem, Fundamental Principles of Traffic Flow, Strategic Highway Research Program, Characteristics of the Driver, Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, Design of Flexible Pavements, Office of Implementation, Safety Effectiveness of Highway Design Features, Highway Subdrainage Design, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Virginia Transportation Research Council, New York Browse Sample Pages:
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