SOURCE BOOK FOR AUSTRALIAN ROADS

The book attempts to cover the entire range of road topics from a technical viewpoint, with a strong Australian bias and using a source book approach. This last aspect means that the book refers readers to other sources of information in many areas, rather than repeating the data given in these key references. To aid this task, the title and contents pages of the key references are included as exhibits at the end of each chapter. The book includes chapters on definitions and terms, history of roads, organisation of roads, road needs, road location, residential streets, materials, moisture effects, stabilisation, pavement design, surfacings, drainage, pavement performance, bridges, driver behaviour, traffic flow and capacity, speeds, road geometry, intersections, signs, pavement markings, traffic signals, lighting, construction, maintenance, vehicles, safety, road user costs and charges, transport, environment, economics, transport planning, acronyms, symbols and information sources. It also has a glossary of terms and is well referenced and indexed (a). The ISBN of the microfiche is 0 86910 046 7. (TRRL)