Economics of Preventive Highway Maintenance
The preventive maintenance concept for asphaltic highway surface care is intended to give all areas of the Kansas Department of Transportation the necessary procedures for such work. The...
Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geo-mechanics held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June, 1976....
American Wooden Bridges
Wooden bridges are inimitably American. Their practicality, individuality, and ruggedness are traditional characteristics associated with our country. This publication catalogues some...
Los Angeles Pioneers Separate Busway
The San Bernardino Freeway Express Busway, a joint project of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and California Department of Transportation, is the nation's first...
The Forgotten Engineer: John Stevens and the Panama Canal
John Frank Stevens was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to take over the flagging Panama Canal project when John Wallace quit. Stevens had been an outstanding railroad...
Designing for the Disadvantaged: Optimum Design Considers All Users
Design practices in recent engineering projects show that consideration for the full human utility of building and transportation systems is receiving increasing attention. Previously,...
British New Towns and the Civil Engineer
Since World War II Britain has built or is building several dozen New Towns. The first, designed to absorb London's growth, pioneered with breakthroughs in housing layouts...
Washington Metro Access Facilities
The 98 mi (158 km) Metro system will have 82 stations. There will be an off-street bus terminal at 54 of the stations with an average of six modified saw-tooth off-street bus bays at each...
Paratransit: How You May Get Around if the Energy Shortage Takes You Out of Your Car
Conventional rail and bus transit play important roles. Para-transit may eventually carry more people. Among the possibilities: priority access to freeways for multi-passenger vehicles;...
Engineering the First Mass Transit Tramway
Aerial tramways are not normally considered for a cross-town mass transit system. They are no longer limited to the ski resorts since construction of the link between Manhattan Island...
New York City's New Town
New York City has taken advantage of a little used island, Roosevelt Island, in the middle of the East River to build a unique residential new town. The large development is connected...
Computerized Traffic Signals; Good for My City�
Good question. The answer is, It depends. On freeways, some computer-controlled on-ramp signals are dramatically speeding rush-hour traffic. The situation is more complicated when you...
International Air Transportation
Worldwide events are swiftly presenting increasingly complex challenges to the international air transportation industry. This conference will confront some of these challenges in a search...
Transportation Facilities Workshop
Passenger, Freight and Parking
Proceedings of the Transportation Facilities Workshop, held at Carnegie-Mellon University, New York, New York, May 22-24, 1974. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers Urban...
Civil Engineering Education
Related to Engineering Practice and to the Nation's Needs
The primary emphasis is on programs and requirements for planning / design / construction / operation of facilities for transportation, water supply and control, environmental protection,...
Performance of Earth and Earth-Supported Structures
Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Performance of Earth and Earth-Supported Structures held at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, June 11-14, 1972. Sponsored by the School...
Goals of Civil Engineering Research
Its Responsiveness to the Needs. Desired, and Aspiration of Man
Proceedings of the 1971 ASCE Research Conference, held at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, September 1-4,...
Man / Transportation Interface
Proceedings of the Man/Transportation Interface Specialty Conference, held in Washington D.C., May 31 June 2, 1972. Sponsored by the ASCE National Capitol Section and Urban Transportation...
Preprints of Conference Proceedings of ASCE National Transportation Engineering Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 1972
The preprints were provided for the purpose of convenient distribution of information at the convention. Both author and subject indexes are provided in the beginning of volume 1927-1954....
Urban Transportation Innovation
Proceedings of the ASCE National Transportation Engineering Meeting, held in Boston, Massachusetts, July 1970. Sponsored by the ASCE Technical Council on Urban Transportation.
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