Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook
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Author(s): R. Lamm, B. Psarianos, T. Mailaender
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0 07 001971 1
Format: hardback
1100pp
Price: £92.99
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This book presents a thoroughly scientific and practical approach to designing highways for maximum safety. Based on original research plus scrupuluosly collected data amassed over more than two decades in different continents by the main author, this important book originates vital criteria for safe design and shows you how best to achieve roads with the lowest possible accident risk and severity rates. In addition, this valuable and necessary resource gives you serious help coordinating safety concerns with important economic, environmental, and aesthetic considerations. Overall the book is an invaluable source of information for educators, students, scientists, highway agencies, and consultants in the fieldof highway design and traffic safety engineering.