Traffic and pavement engineering

575 Pages·2021·195.051 MB·English

by  Al-Khateeb, Ghazi Gaseem

Traffc and Pavement
Engineering
Solved Practical Problems in Transportation Engineering
Volume I: Traffc and Pavement Engineering
Volume II: Highway Planning, Survey, and Design
Traffc and Pavement
Engineering
Ghazi G. Al-Khateeb
University of Sharjah, UAE and Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
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This book is dedicated to my parents;
to the soul of my mother, and
my father, Gaseem;
to my beloved family;
my wife, Nuha; my sons, Khalid, Amr, and Ayham; and my daughter, Dana;
to
my sisters, Shareefah and Suhad;
and my brothers, Ja’fer, Mohammed, Faisal, Hashem, and Tareq;
and to
all my teachers, supervisors, colleagues, friends, and students
in every place I studied, taught, or researched …
Without the science, knowledge, support, and encouragement I received
over the years and the tremendous time and persistence devoted
in writing this book, this huge work would not be possible.

Contents
Preface...............................................................................................................................................ix
Author’s Bio ......................................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................... xiii
PART I Traffc Engineering
Chapter 1 Terminology, Concepts, and Theory ............................................................................3
Chapter 2 Characteristics of Driver, Vehicle, and Roadway .........................................................5
Chapter 3 Traffc Flow Theory and Models ............................................................................... 19
Chapter 4 Highway Capacity and Level of Service ....................................................................83
Chapter 5 Intersection Design, Operation, and Control ........................................................... 151
M ultiple-Choice Questions and Answers for Chapter 1: Terminology, Concepts,
and Theory .....................................................................................................................................197
PART II Pavement Materials, Analysis, and Design
Chapter 6 Terminology .............................................................................................................209
Chapter 7 Important Properties of Subgrade, Subbase, and Base Materials ............................ 211
Chapter 8 Superpave Aggregate Properties and Criteria ..........................................................237
Chapter 9 Superpave Asphalt Binder Properties and Specifcations ........................................249
Chapter 10 Superpave Gyratory Compaction .............................................................................277
Chapter 11 Superpave Mixture Design Method ......................................................................... 301
Chapter 12 Volumetric Analysis of Asphalt Mixtures (Marshall and Superpave) ..................... 319
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Chapter 13 Design and Analysis of Asphalt Pavements ............................................................. 375
Chapter 14 Design and Analysis of Rigid Pavements.................................................................487
Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Chapter 6: Terminology,
Concepts, and Theory .................................................................................................................... 529
References ...................................................................................................................................... 553
Index .............................................................................................................................................. 555
Preface
This book, comprising of two volumes and encompassing a total of fve parts, is the outcome of a
great deal of effort and time spent over the years in studying and teaching at outstanding academic
institutes like Jordan University of Science and Technology, Applied Science University, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American University of Sharjah, and the University of Sharjah,
and in conducting advanced scientifc research at some of the highly recognized research centers
worldwide like the Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL) at
the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner-
Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), advanced research labs at Jordan University of
Science and Technology and the Advanced Pavement Research Lab at the University of Sharjah.
The book implements a unique kind of approach and categorizes transportation engineering top-
ics into fve major key areas, as shown below:
• Volume I: Traffc and Pavement Engineering
• Part I “Traffc Engineering” deals with the functional part of transportation systems
and introduces engineering techniques, practices, and models that are applied to design
traffc systems, control traffc fow and movement, and construct proper roads and
highways to achieve safe and effcient movement of people and traffc on roadways.
• Part II “Pavement Materials, Analysis, and Design” deals with both the structural and
functional parts of transportation facilities and introduces engineering techniques and
principles of the uses of high-quality and sustainable materials that are employed to
design, maintain, and construct asphalt-surfaced road pavements and concrete rigid
pavements. The ultimate goal of pavement engineering is to provide a pavement struc-
ture that is safe, durable, sustainable, and capable of carrying the predicted traffc
loads under prevailing climatic conditions. Proper structural design of pavements is
one that takes into consideration the mechanistic analysis of pavements for stresses and
strains that can predict the performance of the pavement with time. This section fulflls
this goal by presenting the subject in a unique manner.
• Volume II: Highway Planning, Survey, and Design
• Part I “Urban Transportation Planning” presents a process that involves a multi-modal
approach and comprehensive planning steps and models to design and evaluate a vari-
ety of alternatives for transportation systems and facilities, predict travel demand and
future needs, and manage the facilities and services for the different modes of trans-
portation to fnally achieve a safe, effcient, and sustainable system for the movement
of people and goods.
• Part II “Highway Survey” presents the basic concepts and standard procedures neces-
sary to make precise and accurate distance, angle, and level measurements for highway
alignment, cross-sections, and earth quantities used in the design of highways.
• Part III “Geometric Design of Highways” deals with engineering design techniques,
standards, and models that control the three main elements of highway geometric
design: horizontal and vertical alignments, profle, and cross-section to achieve the
primary objectives of geometric design: safety, effciency, and sustainability.
The book is designed to beneft students in engineering programs at academic institutes where
courses in pavement engineering, highway engineering, transportation engineering, traffc engi-
neering, urban transportation planning, and survey are offered. The book is intended to be used as
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