Civil Engineering



Highway and Traffic Engineering in Developing Countries By Bent Thagesen

Preference : The main purpose of this book is to meet a pronounced need for a textbook on planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management of roads and traffic in the traditional developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Most of these countries, which do not include the former Eastern Bloc countries, are situated in the tropics, where the natural conditions are different from related conditions in temperate regions. Also, the institutional issues and the financial problems confronting countries in the ‘South’ are usually different from the state of affairs…