Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

Abstract

In 1967 I wrote a basic textbook entitled Highways that was aimed at undergraduate civil engineers who were interested in centring their careers on highway planning,

design and construction. The book was well received and subsequently two further edi- tions were prepared. These later editions were each divided into two volumes, one

dealing with those aspects of particular interest to the young traffic engineer, and the

other with the physical location, structural design, and materials used in the construc- tion of highways.

When I was invited by the Publisher to prepare a fourth edition, I resolved instead to invite some of the top engineering educationalists in Britain to collaborate with me in the preparation of two new books. In this first volume Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering I am very fortunate that Mike Bell, Peter Bonsall, Gerry Leake, Tony May and Chris Nash agreed to participate in this endeavour. All are recognised experts in their fields and I am honoured to be associated with them in this book.