Highways: Location, Design, Construction and Maintenance of Road Pavements

Highways is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering and the new edition will cover the latest developments in the field, building on the fourth edition which is still viewed as the leading title in highway engineering, despite now being over ten years old.

Originally published 1974, this book is the leading authority on the subject. Highways, 5th edition covers road location and plans, roadwork materials, surface and subsurface moisture control, pavement design and construction, thickness design of bituminous and concrete pavements, and road maintenance and rehabilitation.

Contents

1. 
   The road development process: plans, specifications and contracts
   2. Route location
   3. Site investigations
   4. Soils and soil testing for roadworks
   5. Earthworks for roadworks
   6. Materials used in road pavements
   7. Soil-stabilised and hydraulically bound mixtures used in road pavements
   8. Standard asphalt mixtures used in pavement layers
   9. Moisture control: surface and subsurface drainage
   10. Introduction to pavement thickness design: some basic considerations
   11. Analysis of stresses in rigid concrete slabs and an introduction to concrete block paving
   12. Current UK thickness design recommendations for new bituminous and concrete pavements
   13. Design and construction of asphalt bases and surfacings
   14. Constructing concrete pavements
   15. Pavement asset management
   16. Structural strengthening of road pavements
   17. Wet skid resistance
   18. Design and use of thin surface treatments