Guide to Road Design: Introduction to road design
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Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 9781921139253
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Author: Austroads Ltd
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Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 9781921139253
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781921329913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781610914949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird’s eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city’s unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: • Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. • Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. • Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. • Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. • Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.
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Publisher: AASHTO
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1560512598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContext-sensitive solutions (CSS) reflect the need to consider highway projects as more than just transportation facilities. Depending on how highway projects are integrated into the community, they can have far-reaching impacts beyond their traffic or transportation function. CSS is a comprehensive process that brings stakeholders together in a positive, proactive environment to develop projects that not only meet transportation needs, but also improve or enhance the community. Achieving a flexible, context-sensitive design solution requires designers to fully understand the reasons behind the processes, design values, and design procedures that are used. This AASHTO Guide shows highway designers how to think flexibly, how to recognize the many choices and options they have, and how to arrive at the best solution for the particular situation or context. It also strives to emphasize that flexible design does not necessarily entail a fundamentally new design process, but that it can be integrated into the existing transportation culture. This publication represents a major step toward institutionalizing CSS into state transportation departments and other agencies charged with transportation project development.
Author: Richard Fanning
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Published: 2016-09-28
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ISBN-13: 9781925451245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Global Designing Cities Initiative
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2016-10-13
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1610917014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets to include: access, safety, mobility for all users, environmental quality, economic benefit, public health, and overall quality of life. The first-ever worldwide standards for designing city streets and prioritizing safety, pedestrians, transit, and sustainable mobility are presented in the guide. Participating experts from global cities have helped to develop the principles that organize the guide. The Global Street Design Guide builds off the successful tools and tactics defined in NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide while addressing a variety of street typologies and design elements found in various contexts around the world.
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781921709562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside Safety
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 560
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781921551833
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781925854091
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