This book covers a selection of fundamental topics of traffic engineering useful for highways facilities design and control. The treatment is concise but it does not neglect to examine the most recent and crucial theoretical aspects which are at the root of numerous highway engineering applications, like, for instance, the essential aspects of highways traffic stream reliability calculation and automated highway systems control. In order to make these topics easy to follow, several illustrative worked examples of applications are provided in great detail. An intuitive and discursive, rather than formal, style has been adopted throughout the contents.

As such, the book offers up-to-date and practical knowledge on several aspects of traffic engineering, which is of interest to a wide audience including students, researchers as well as transportation planners, public transport specialists, city planners and decision-makers.

Explores the fundamentals of traffic flow theory and control Provides real-world case studies which clarify the applications of traffic models Serves as useful practical and educational tool

Autorentext

Marco Guerrieri is associate professor of Highway and Railway Engineering at DICAM, University of Trento, Italy, and he is qualified to full professorship. He serves as a member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals. He has authored 3 books and more than 110 scientific papers published in national and international scientific journals or conference proceedings. His research interests include microscopic traffic simulation, highway design and control, alternative Intersection design and railway design.

Klappentext

The book covers the fundamental topics of traffic engineering useful for highways facilities design and control. It examines the most recent and crucial theoretical aspects which are at the root of numerous highway engineering applications, such as the essential aspects of highways traffic stream reliability calculation and automated highway systems control.

Inhalt
Macroscopic variables and fundamental relationships of traffic flow theory.- Macroscopic traffic flow models.- Continuity flow equation, kinematic waves and shock waves.- Microscopic models and traffic instability.- Fundamentals of random and traffic processes.- Traffic management and control systems.- Interference between traffic flows: the gap acceptance theory.- Queue formation: general models.- Unsignalized intersections.