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Traffic, highway, and transportation design principles and practical applications This comprehensive textbook clearly explains the many aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; traffic demand, flow, and control; and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues such as livable streets, automated vehicles, and smart cities are also discussed. You will get real-world case studies that highlight practical applications as well as valuable diagrams and tables that define transportation engineering terms and acronyms.     Coverage includes: • An introduction to transportation engineering • Geometric design • Traffic flow theory • Traffic control • Capacity and level of service • Highway safety • Transportation demand • Transportation systems management and operations • Emerging topics

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Beverly Thompson Kuhn, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, is a Senior Research Engineer and Division Head with the prestigious Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). She has taught introductory transportation engineering courses at both Texas A&M University and Penn State University and has authored numerous papers and publications, including chapters in McGraw-Hill's Handbook of Transportation Engineering, and is an active member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

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