CHAPTER ONE ROAD ENGINEERING 1
Unit 1 Traffic Analysis 3
Unit 2 Soils and Granular Materials 7
Unit 3 Subgrade Structure 13
Unit 4 Pavement Design 16
Unit 5 Cement Concrete Roads 19
Unit 6 Road Construction 24
Unit 7 Pavement Management System 28
GLOSSARY 31
CHAPTER TWO TRAFFIC ENGINEERING 33
Unit 1 Transportation Viewed as a System 35
Unit 2 Vehicle and Human Characteristics 38
Unit 3 Traffic Flow Characteristics 42
Unit 4 Data-Collection Methods 48
Unit 5 Transport Planning 56
Unit 6 Traffic Signals 62
GLOSSARY 66
CHAPTER THREE TRAFFIC INFORMATION ENGINEERING 71
Unit 1 Automatic Train Control System 73
Unit 2 Maglev Guideway on the Yamanashi Test Line 76
Unit 3 Global Positioning System 82
Unit 4 Intelligent Transportation System in Japan 90
Unit 5 High-speed Communication Network Traffic Modelling 96
GLOSSARY 99
CHAPTER FOUR LOGISTICS ENGINEERING 103
Unit 1 New Directions in Logistics 105
Unit 2 Formulating Logistics Strategy 114
Unit 3 Making Warehouses Work More Efficiently 120
Unit 4 Planning the Location of Depots 127
Unit 5 Multimodal Transportation and Logistics 136
Unit 6 Planning for Urban Delivery 142
GLOSSARY 151
CHAPTER FIVE RAIL TRANSPORTATION 153
Unit 1 The Railroad Track 155
Unit 2 Passenger Rolling Stock 159
Unit 3 Railcars 163
Unit 4 Railway Passenger Terminals 166
Unit 5 Railway Yard Operations 170
GLOSSARY 174
CHAPTER SIX RAIL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING 179
Unit 1 Built for Speed:All about Dedicated High Speed Railway Lines(1) 181
Unit 2 Built for Speed:All about Dedicated High Speed Railway Lines(2) 184
Unit 3 Eurostar 187
Unit 4 Development of Noise Absorbing Material for Track 191
Unit 5 Pads ease track transitions 194
Unit 6 Advanced Maglev Technology 197
GLOSSARY 200
References 202