Pedestrian facilities : engineering and geometric design

Deals with the engineering and numerical design aspects of pedestrian facilities, such as footways, uncontrolled and controlled crossings along roads and at junctions, roundabouts and driveways where pedestrian and vehicular traffic interact. This title focuses on the dimensional aspects of pedestri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Schoon, John G. 1937-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Thomas Telford, 2010.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781680150803
9780727741196
9780727740694
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xix, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Codes of conduct
  • The Highway Code
  • Driver and vehicle characteristics
  • Pedestrian characteristics
  • Disabled pedestrians' characteristics
  • General road layout practice
  • Crossings at unsignalled locations
  • Signalled pedestrian crossings
  • geometric design
  • Facilities for inclusive mobility : design guidelines
  • Pedestrian facilities at roundabouts
  • Pedestrian facilities at mini-roundabouts
  • Design for combined pedestrian and other non-motorised users
  • Audits for non-motorised user (NMU) facilities
  • Pedestrian flow and capacity : the highway capacity manual
  • Simulation and computerised models of pedestrian facilities
  • Examples and case studies.