01114752

Monograph

This collection of 18 papers is concerned with highway design. The papers address the following specific aspects of highway design: geometric design; roadside safety design (grates, guardrails, and cable barriers); landscape and environmental design; context-sensitive design and solutions; hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality; and utilities.

English

180p

2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309113304

Print

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Barriers (Roads); Context sensitive design; Environmental design; Geometric design; Grates; Guardrails; Highway design; Hydraulics; Hydrology; Landscape architecture; Public utilities; Roadside; Water quality

Cable barriers; Context sensitive solutions

Design; Energy; Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 13 2008 1:45PM

• Assessment of Sag Curve Design Criteria Considering Modern Headlamp Performance
• Community Context and Strip Mall Retail: Public Response to the Roadside Landscape
• Construction Specification Framework for Utility Installations
• Culvert Hydraulics: Comparison of Current Computer Models and Recommended Improvements
• Determining the Length of the Right-Turn Lane at a Signalized Intersection
• Development of a Tool for Utility Conflict Data Management in the Project Development Process
• Do Context-Sensitive Solutions Really Work?
• Effect of Median Design on Rural Freeway Safety: Flush Medians with Concrete Barriers and Depressed Medians
• From Arterial to Asset: Examining the Role of the Multiway Boulevard in Coordinated Transportation and Land Use Planning
• Length Requirements for New Single-Arc Unsymmetrical Vertical Curve: Crest Type
• Midwest Guardrail System Adjacent to a 2:1 Slope
• Overland Flow Time of Concentration on Very Flat Terrains
• Safety Evaluation and Improvements for Highway Intersections
• Safety Grates for Cross-Drainage Culverts
• State of the Practice of Cable Barrier Systems
• Students’ Perceptions of Difficulties in Cycling to School in Urban and Suburban Taiwan
• Three-Dimensional, Probabilistic Highway Design: Sight Distance Application
• Two-Level Signalized Intersection