Traffic Engineering
by Roger P. Roess, William R. McShane, Elena S. Prassas · Roess
Undergraduate textbook covering traffic studies, signal timing, capacity and level-of-service analysis, and highway geometric design. Working through it gives you the standard methods for measuring flow and sizing intersections and freeway segments to U.S. practice.
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