Provide contemporary insights into all facets of todays traffic and highway engineering with this enhanced edition of Garber and Hoels best-selling TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING, 5th Edition. The books initial discussion highlights the pivotal role that transportation plays in todays society. Students examine employment opportunities that transportation creates, study its historical impact and explore the influence of transportation on modern daily life. With this approach students gain an accurate understanding of the field while considering some of transportations unique challenges. Later chapters focus on specific issues facing present-day transportation engineers. Effective learning tools, such as worked problems, diagrams and tables, reference materials and realistic examples, further demonstrate how engineers apply transportation engineering principles in todays world.