Road Engineering for Development

Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions anddifferent institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries.However mo... » 

Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions anddifferent institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries.However most textbooks on highway engineering are based on experience fromindustrialized countries with temperate climates and deal only with specificproblems.Road Engineering for Development published as Highway and TrafficEngineering in Developing Countries in its first edition provides acomprehensive description of the planning design construction and maintenanceof roads in developing countries. It covers a wide range of technical and nontechnical problems that may confront road engineers working in this area. Thetechnical content of the book has been fully updated and current developmentissues are focused on.Designed as a fundamental text for civil engineering students this book alsooffers a broad practical view of the subject for practicing engineers. It hasbeen written with the assistance of a number of worldrenowned specialistprofessional engineers with many years experience in Africa the Middle EastAsia and Central America. «