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Highway traffic analysis and design / R. J. Salter and N. B. Hounsell.

By: Salter, Richard J.
Contributor(s): Hounsell, N. B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Houndmills, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996Edition: 3rd ed.Description: viii, 392 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0333609034.Subject(s): Traffic engineeringDDC classification: 625.7
Contents:
Part I: Traffic surveys 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 II: 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 -- Traffic speed distributions and estimation -- Highway link design -- Intersections with priority control -- Driver reactions at priority intersections -- Capacities and delays at priority intersections -- A simulation approach to delays at priority intersections -- Roundabout intersections -- Grade-separated junctions and interchanges -- Merging, diverging and weaving at grade-separated junctions and interchanges -- Queueing processes in traffic flow -- Geometric delay at non-signalised intersections -- The environmental effects of highway traffic noise -- The environmental effects of highway traffic pollution -- Traffic congestion and restraint -- Part III: Traffic signal control -- Introduction to traffic signals -- Warrants for the use of traffic signals -- Staging and phasing -- Signal aspects and the intergreen period -- Signal control strategies -- Geometric factors affecting 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 -- Opposed right-turning vehicles and gap acceptance -- The ultimate capacity of the whole intersection -- The optimisation of signal-approach dimensions -- Optimum signal settings when saturation flow falls during the green period -- Delay at signal-controlled intersections -- Average queue lengths at the commencement of the green period -- Programs for traffic signal design -- 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 -- Urban traffic control systems.
Holdings
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This third edition of the late R.J. Salter's successful book has been revised and updated by N.B. Hounsell. Part I covers transportation planning, incorporating new methodological approaches and models. Part II covers highway traffic analysis and design, including updated sections on link and junction design, together with new computer aided design packages. Part III concentrates in traffic signals, with new chapters on microprocessor-based signal control and modern urban traffic control systems. This new edition consolidates the book's position as a practical text of traffic theory and practice, including many worked examples, for undergraduate and postgraduate students of transport and traffic engineering.

Previous ed.: 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Traffic surveys 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 II: 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 -- Traffic speed distributions and estimation -- Highway link design -- Intersections with priority control -- Driver reactions at priority intersections -- Capacities and delays at priority intersections -- A simulation approach to delays at priority intersections -- Roundabout intersections -- Grade-separated junctions and interchanges -- Merging, diverging and weaving at grade-separated junctions and interchanges -- Queueing processes in traffic flow -- Geometric delay at non-signalised intersections -- The environmental effects of highway traffic noise -- The environmental effects of highway traffic pollution -- Traffic congestion and restraint -- Part III: Traffic signal control -- Introduction to traffic signals -- Warrants for the use of traffic signals -- Staging and phasing -- Signal aspects and the intergreen period -- Signal control strategies -- Geometric factors affecting 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 -- Opposed right-turning vehicles and gap acceptance -- The ultimate capacity of the whole intersection -- The optimisation of signal-approach dimensions -- Optimum signal settings when saturation flow falls during the green period -- Delay at signal-controlled intersections -- Average queue lengths at the commencement of the green period -- Programs for traffic signal design -- 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 -- Urban traffic control systems.

CIT Module CIVL 7006 - Supplementary reading.

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