Includes index.

Part 1: Traffic analysis and prediction -- Introduction to the transportation planning process -- The transportation study area -- The collection of existing travel data -- The external cordon and screenline surveys -- Other surveys -- Trip generation -- Trip distribution -- Modal split -- Traffic assignment -- The evaluation of transportation proposals -- Part 2: Analysis and design for highway traffic -- The capacity of highways between intersections -- Headway distributions in highway traffic flow -- The relationship between speed, flow and density of a highway traffic stream -- The distribution of vehicular speeds in a highway traffic stream -- The macroscopic determination of speed and flow of a highway traffic steam -- Intersections with priority control -- Driver reactions at priority intersections -- Delays at priority intersections -- A simulation approach to delays at priority intersections -- Weaving action at intersections -- British and U.S. practice for determining the capacity of higher speed weaving sections -- Queueing processes in traffic flow -- New forms of single level intersections -- Grade-separated junctions -- The environmental effects of highway traffic noise -- The environmental effects of highway traffic pollution -- Traffic congestion and restraint -- Part 3: Traffic signal control -- Introduction to traffic signals -- Warrants for the use of traffic signals -- Phasing -- Signal aspects and the intergreen period -- Vehicle-actuated signal facilities -- The effect of roadway and environmental factors on the capacity of a traffic-signal approach -- The effect of traffic factors on the capacity of a traffic-signal approach -- Determination of the effective green time -- Optimum cycle times for an intersection -- The timing diagram -- Early cut-off and late-start facilities -- The effect of right-turning vehicles combined with straight-ahead and left-turning vehicles -- The ultimate capacity of the whole intersection -- The timing diagram -- Early cut-off and late-start facilities -- The effect of right-turning vehicles combined with straight-ahead and left turning vehicles -- The ultimate capacity of the whole interaction -- The optimisation of signal-approach dimensions -- Optimum signal settings when saturation flow falls during the green period -- Delay at signal-controlled intersections -- Determination of the optimum cycle from a consideration of delays on the approach -- Average queue lengths at the commencement of the green period -- The co-ordination of traffic signals -- Time and distance diagrams for linked traffic signals -- Platoon dispersion and the linking of traffic signals -- The prediction of the dispersion of traffic platoons downstream of signals -- The delay/offset relationship and the linking of signals -- Some area traffic control systems.

CIT Module CIVL 7006 - Suppplementary reading.