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Traffic Engineering, 5th Edition focuses on the key engineering skills required to practice traffic engineering. It presents both fundamental theory and a broad range of its applications to solve modern problems and gives students an understanding of and appreciation for planning, design, management, construction, operation, control, and system optimization. It also includes the latest in industry standards and criteria, new material and updates to existing material, and new homework problems. Table of Contents: I. Basic Concepts and Characteristics1. Introduction2. Transportation Modes and Characteristics3. Road-User, Vehicle, and Roadway Characteristics4. Communicating with Drivers: Traffic Control Devices5. Traffic Stream Characteristics6. The Concepts of Demand, Volume, and Capacity7. Level of Service and the Highway Capacity Manual: History and Fundamental Concepts8. Intelligent Transportation Systems II. Traffic Studies and Programs9. Traffic Data Collection and Reduction Methodologies10. Traffic Volume Studies and Characteristics11. Speed, Travel Time, and Delay Studies12. Highway Traffic Safety: An Overview13. Parking: Characteristics, Studies, Programs, and Design14. Traffic Impact Studies and Analyses III. Interrupted Flow Facilities: Design, Control, and Level of Service15. The Hierarchy of Intersection Control16. Traffic Signal Hardware17. Fundamentals of Intersection Design and Layout18. Principles of Intersection Signalization19. Fundamentals of Signal Timing and Design: Pre-timed Signals20. Fundamentals of Signal Timing and Design: Actuated Signals21. Signal Coordination for Arterials and Networks22. Capacity and Level of Service Analysis: Signalized IntersectionsThe HCM Method23. Planning-Level Analysis of Signalized Intersections24. Urban Streets and Arterials: Complete Streets and Levels of Service25. Unsignalized Intersections and Roundabouts26. Interchanges and Alternative Intersections IV. Uninterrupted Flow Facilities: Design, Control, and Level of Service27. An Overview of Geometric Design of Roadways28. Capacity and Level of Service Analysis: Basic Freeway and Multilane Highway Segments29. Capacity and Level of Service Analysis: Weaving Segments on Freeways and Multilane Highways30. Capacity and Level of Service Analysis: Merge and Diverge Segments on Freeways and Multilane Highways31. Operation and Analysis of Freeways and Highways