The first edition of this book was based in significant part on the earlier "Source Book for Australian Roads", with the text edited and expanded to suit an international audience. Subsequent editions have been revised in the light of new published work, reader feedback, continued experience as a road practitioner and improved understandings. This fourth edition has been partly prepared during periods as a principal engineer at Sinclair Knight Merz responsible for reviewing all aspects of the mammoth City Link build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) toll-road project, as an advisor to the construction firm Thiess preparing bids for toll road projects, and finally as a Director of the Macquarie Bank company, ConnectEast responsible for the design, construction and operation of the EastLink toll road. All these experiences, have added many practical and commercial facets to the existing theoretical and design knowledge, and have greatly influenced this fourth edition. Many of the changes also arise from reader feedback on the up-date pages published in Highway Engineering in Australia until the end of 2007. The book draws heavily on the work of others. The aim is to present available data in collected, collated and readable form, rather than to create new knowledge. The book includes chapters on the history of roads, on road management, road location, residential streets, pavement materials, bitumen, drainage, bridges, driver behaviour, traffic flow and capacity, speed, road geometry. intersections, signs, markings, signals, lighting, construction, maintenance, vehicles, safety, road users costs, transport, planning and environmental factors.

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