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Modern highway engineering reflects an integrated view of a road system's entire lifecycle, including any potential environmental impacts, and seeks to develop a sustainable infrastructure through careful planning and active management. This trend is not limited to developed nations, but is recognized across the globe. Edited by renowned authority T.F. Fwa, The Handbook of Highway Engineering provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of all aspects of highway development and engineering. Its three sections range from consideration of socio-economic and environmental factors to design, construction, maintenance, and management.
Beginning with financing, access management, environmental impacts, road safety, and noise, the book explores the expanded responsibilities of the modern highway engineer as well as the increasing trend toward privatization of project development and financing. The next section considers technical issues in highway and pavement engineering, including materials, new mechanistic-empirical design approaches, and new closed-form solutions for backcalculation as well as deflection and stress computation in multi-slab systems. Rounding out the discussion, the final section examines construction, management, performance evaluation including nondestructive testing, and a chapter devoted to highway asset management.
Featuring contributions from eminent experts representing eight countries on four continents, The Handbook of Highway Engineering supplies all of the tools needed to manage the entire integrated process of modern highway development and engineering.
Author Notes
T.F. Fwa
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This handbook contains much useful information and many equations, tables, and facts needed in highway engineering. It is divided into several chapters, each covering topics such as financing highways, access management of highways, highway safety, road traffic noise, highway geometric design, highway materials, design of flexible and rigid pavements, overlay design of flexible and rigid pavements, and construction, maintenance, and management of highways. In addition, there are specific topics in pavement management systems (PMS), highway condition surveys and serviceability evaluation, and bridge management systems. Each chapter contains several sections describing the concept of a particular topic. This book is very well written and easy to read, and there are many illustrations and references. It can serve as a resource for anyone involved in the area of transportation engineering, and as a course adjunct for an undergraduate- or graduate-level course in civil engineering departments. For libraries of all engineering schools. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. S. N. Amirkhanian Clemson University
