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Traffic control systems handbook / Robert L. Gordon, Warren Tighe.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Robert L., 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic traffic controls--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Electronic traffic controls.
- Electronic controllers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Electronic controllers.
- Highway communications--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Highway communications.
- Intelligent transportation systems--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Intelligent transportation systems.
- Genre:
- handbooks.
- Handbooks and manuals
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([369] pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations, [2005]
- Summary:
- The Traffic Control Systems Handbook updates the 1996 edition (FHWA-SA-96-032). It serves as a basic reference in planning, designing and implementing traffic control systems. Specific chapters include introduction, summary of available and emerging traffic control system technology, control concepts for urban and suburban streets (traffic control parameters, descriptions of traffic control concepts and their application), a brief summary of control and management concepts for freeways, traffic detectors, local controller operation, traffic control system architectures, a brief summary of traffic control system communications, traveler information systems, the processes required for selection of a system, design and implementation, and systems management. The Handbook concludes with a discussion of ITS plans and programs. The Traffic Control Systems Handbook references other FHWA handbooks for more detailed information on freeway management, communications, and traffic detectors.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF title screen (viewed on June 27, 2011).
- "October 2005."
- "Updates the 1996 edition (FHWA-SA-96-032)."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Publication no. FHWA-HOP-06-606."
- OCLC:
- 521062826
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