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Proceedings of the Ninth Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference, held in Chongqing, China, June 29-July 1, 2012. Sponsored by International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association; T.Y. Lin International Group, China; Chongqing Urban Planning Bureau, China; Transportation & Development Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 81 papers describing innovations in the development of sustainable transportation systems. In the face of ongoing challenges such as traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and rising energy costs, transportation professionals look for new strategies, methods, and technologies to address issues of funding, planning, construction, and maintenance of transportation facilities of all types. These papers showcase both new approaches developed for China's enormous transportation infrastructure market and the latest advances in management and maintenance from researchers in the United States and other developed countries. Topics include: sustainable transportation development; low carbon emissions and energy saving in transportation; multimodal transportation systems; intelligent transportation systems; advancements in traffic control technologies; transportation and work zone safety; design and construction of bridges and tunnels; pavement materials, design, and construction; and geotechnical design and construction. This collection offers inspiration and practical solutions for engineers, planners, and managers working on transportation systems around the world.
Sustainable engineering --- Transportation engineering --- Sustainable development --- Infrastructure construction --- Construction materials --- Intelligent transportation systems --- Pavement design --- Highway and road design --- Professional societies --- Traffic congestion --- China --- Asia --- United States
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Standard Practice for Direct Design of Buried Precast Concrete Box Sections covers the direct design of buried one-cell precast reinforced concrete box sections to convey sewage, industrial wastes, storm water and drainage, as well as to serve as tunnels. The design and analysis method accounts for the interaction between the box sections and soil envelope in calculating loads, pressure distributions, moment, thrust and shear in the box section, as well as a procedure for calculating the required reinforcement. Load effects are determined separately for each loading. The design criteria include: structural aspects, such as flexure, thrust, and shear strengths; handling and installation; fatigue limits; and crack width control. The design of a one-cell precast reinforced concrete box section is based on the assumption that specified design bedding and installation requirements will be achieved during construction of the installation. The structural design of one-cell precast reinforced concrete box sections is based on a limits state design procedure that accounts for strength and serviceability criteria and is consistent with the procedures outlined in Section 17 of the AASHTO Standard Specification for Highway Bridges. Owners and owners' engineers will find this Standard useful in preparing contract documents based on the direct design method.
Reinforced concrete construction. --- Boxes --- Precast concrete. --- Soil-structure interaction. --- Precast concrete --- Reinforced concrete --- Hydraulic design --- Structural design --- Soil stabilization --- Load factors --- Shear strength --- Highway and road design --- Design.
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Prepared by the Structural Design of Interlocking Concrete Pavement Committee of the Standards Council of the Transportation & Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Cosponsored by the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute. Structural Design of Interlocking Concrete Pavement for Municipal Streets and Roadways, Standard ASCE/T&DI/ICPI 58-16, establishes guidelines for developing appropriate pavement structures for various traffic and subgrade conditions. Interlocking concrete pavers can provide a durable and effective pavement system, but as with any pavement, proper design, construction, and maintenance procedures are required. This standard applies to paved areas subject to applicable permitted axle loads and carrying up to 10 million 80-kN equivalent single-axle loads (ESALs). The standard provides preparatory information for design, key design elements, design tables for pavement equivalent structural design, construction considerations, applicable standards, definitions, and best practices. This new version, which replaces Standard ASCE/T&DI/ICPI 58-10, includes updated references to quoted ASTM standards, clarification of subgrade type and drainage characteristics, and the addition of new, green infrastructure rating systems. Transportation engineers, road designers, planners, pavement manufacturers, and municipal officials will rely on this comprehensive guide to interlocking concrete pavements.
Pavements, Concrete --- Streets --- Concrete roads --- Pavement design --- Concrete pavements --- Highway and road design --- Structural design --- Concrete structures --- Local government --- Highway and road structures --- Design and construction --- Standards.
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Prepared by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE with support from the Mid-America Earthquake Center. This TCLEE Monograph offers a thorough and compelling account of Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact upon the Gulf Coast's major transportation systems. Although the failure of the New Orleans levees attracted considerable media attention, the region's bridge, railroad, and roadway infrastructure also suffered significant damage. This report comprehensively evaluates the performance of these transportation systems subjected to Katrina's high wind speeds and storm surges, which combined to make Hurricane Katrina the most destructive and costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. Major topics covered in this report include: an overview of the hurricane and its damage; emergency preparedness; highway bridge, railroad, and roadway performance and repair rerouting and traffic demands; impact on new design; and lessons learned.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005. --- Transportation engineering. --- Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones --- Railroad bridges --- Highway and road design --- Rail transportation --- Highway bridges --- Rehabilitation --- Earthquakes --- Emergency management --- United States --- New Orleans --- Louisiana
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Proceedings of the Second Conference on Green Streets, Highways, and Development, held in Austin, Texas, November 3-6, 2013. Sponsored by the Transportation & Development Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 35 peer-reviewed papers covering the current expertise in sustainable roadway and street planning and site design. The proceedings highlights best practices and successes with real-world design approaches, planning methodologies, operations and maintenance strategies, progress evaluation tools, performance measurement and management approaches, policies, and case studies. Topics include: green design and asset management; stormwater management and transportation; sustainable design and traffic operations; land use planning and infrastructure; sustainable pavements; and best practices case studies. This proceedings will be of interest to engineers, contractors, planners, architects, landscape architects, private practitioners, government officials, academics, and students interested in the effective application of sustainability concepts to highway and street planning and site design.
Highway engineering --- Roads --- Streets --- Sustainable engineering --- Sustainable development --- Highways and roads --- Highway and road design --- Case studies --- Traffic management --- Pavement design --- Management methods --- Design and construction --- Environmental aspects
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Prepared by the Local Roads and Streets Committee of the Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE. This report gives road engineers increased flexibility by collecting available guidance for resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation projects on local roads. Drawing primarily on case studies of current practices and analyses of safety cost-effectiveness, this book recommends practices that encompass the entire process, but with a special focus on design. Resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation projects are intended to return an existing roadway, including shoulders, bridges, the roadside, and appurtenances, to a condition of structural and functional adequacy. This book defines the types of projects under consideration and identifies the geometric guidelines. Then, recommendations for 12 design criteria are presented in checklist form, supplemented with brief explanations and illustrations. However, engineering judgment based on local conditions is paramount in design to improve safety or an existing roadway. This book will be valuable to highway and engineers—especially those involved in design for local road projects—and local planners.
Pavements --- Roads --- Highway and road design --- Project management --- Highway and road conditions --- Highways and roads --- Rehabilitation --- Case studies --- Safety --- Geometrics --- Maintenance and repair. --- Overlays. --- Location.
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This Standard establishes guidelines for developing appropriate pavement structures for various traffic and subgrade conditions. Interlocking concrete pavers can provide a durable and effective pavement system, but as with any pavement, proper design, construction, and maintenance procedures are required. This standard applies to paved areas subject to applicable permitted axle loads and carrying up to 10 million 80-kN equivalent single-axle loads (ESALs). The standard provides preparatory information for design, key design elements, design tables for pavement equivalent structural design, construction considerations, applicable standards, definitions, and best practices. This standard will be of interest to highway engineers, transportation officials, and planners.
Pavements, Concrete --- Concrete roads --- Pavement design --- Structural design --- Concrete pavements --- Highway and road design --- Concrete structures --- Pavement condition --- Local government --- Streets --- Design and construction --- Standards.
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Selected papers from the Transportation Research Congress 2017, held in Beijing, China, May 23–25, 2017. Sponsored by Research Institute of Highway; Joint USTB-Virginia Tech Lab on Multifunctional Materials; Virginia Polytechnic University; University of Science and Technology Beijing; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Zhejiang University; Southwest Jiaotong University; Tongji University; Southeast University; Chongqing Jiaotong University; and the Construction Institute of ASCE.This collection contains 29 peer-reviewed papers on pavement materials, structures, and design.Topics include: aggregate composition and characteristics; design methods and pavement performance; asphalt mixture composition and characteristics; and bridge and tunnel pavements.This proceedings will be of interest to researchers, educators, practitioners, and government officials working in the area of transportation infrastructure.
Pavements, Asphalt --- Colleges and universities --- Sustainable development --- Infrastructure resilience --- Pavement design --- Infrastructure construction --- Construction materials --- Asphalt pavements --- Highway and road design
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Proceedings of the 2010 Green Streets and Highways Conference, held in Denver, Colorado, November 14-17, 2010. Sponsored by the Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 40 papers discussing the state of the art in sustainable roadways. Today's world of highway and local street planning and design concerns traffic and civil engineers but also transportation planners, environmental engineers, and regulators. Interdisciplinary teams are needed to address complex multimodal planning, regional environmental issues, context-sensitive solutions, climate change, green rating systems, economic development, and other emerging and often changing issues. Topics include: sustainable and integrated planning and design, green pavements and construction materials, watershed and environmental planning and design, and rating systems.
Roads --- Sustainable development --- Streets --- Highways and roads --- Pavement design --- Construction materials --- Highway and road design --- Ratings --- Professional societies --- Design and construction --- Environmental aspects. --- Design and construction.
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Proceedings of the 2006 Airfield and Highway Pavements Specialty Conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30-May 3, 2006. Sponsored by the Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 87 papers presenting the latest developments and case histories in airport and highway pavement design and analysis. Papers include recent developments in the field such as modeling, construction, evaluation, testing, and service-life prediction. Topics include: modeling and analysis techniques; design methods; subgrade stabilization technologies; construction, quality control and recycling; pavement material characterization and performance; distress detection, assessment and prevention techniques; roughness and friction measurements and analysis; pavement rehabilitation techniques; and pavement management systems, economics, and planning.
Express highways --- Runways (Aeronautics) --- Pavements --- Airport and airfield pavements --- Highways and roads --- Pavement design --- Pavement surface roughness --- Construction materials --- Pavement condition --- Case studies --- Highway and road design --- Materials