Abstract
This handbook was written to enable transportation engineers to plan, select, design, implement, operate and maintain communication systems for traffic control. It has been designed to aid: transportation officials overseeing traffic control systems; communications engineers; and traffic control systems engineers. The handbook provides information on communications media, system architectures, decision making processes and trade-off analyses. The handbook will serve as a guide for agencies wishing to: initiate a traffic control system that incorporates functional, effective, reliable and economical communications; and update and modernize an existing communications system for traffic control. (Author/publisher)