Abstract
The purpose of this book is to present traffic engineering as a science and to provide practicing traffic engineers with an insight into contemporary traffic research approached. It gives the reader backgrounds, interests and varying degrees of mathematical sophistication. The book is organized on 5 bases: 1 the chronological phases through which the traffic engineering effort passes 2 the logical research steps 3 the parts of traffic analysis such as traffic demand and highway capacity 4 the tools of traffic engineering such as probability distributions queuing and control theory and physical analogies and 5 the elements of the traffic systems including the driver, the vehicle, the road.