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Title: Principles of Transportation Engineering

Authors: Partha Chakroborty and Animesh Das

PART - I     TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

Chapter-4  Traffic Flow                                   

                                                                                                                       

q       Introduction

q       Fundamentals of Traffic Flow                                             

¨     Flow characterization

¨     Fundamental relation of traffic flow

q       Fundamentals of Uninterrupted Traffic Flow                                               

¨     Stream characteristics

¨     Data collection

¨     Macroscopic traffic flow models

¨     Microscopic traffic flow models

¨     Capacity and level-of-service analysis of basic freeway (expressway) sections

q       Fundamentals of interrupted traffic flow                                                      

¨     Shock waves

¨     Traffic flow at signalized intersections

¨     Traffic flow at unsignalized intersections

¨     Data collection