"ULI catalog number: R34"--P. ii. Previous ed. under title: Residential streets, 1990. "This edition ... was developed by the National Association of Home Builders, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and ULI-the Urban Land Institute"--P. iii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74) and index.
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- History -- Early Standard Setting -- More Recent Efforts -- Philosophy of Residential Street Design -- Public and Private Streets -- Applications -- CHAPTER 2: Design Considerations -- Functional Classification System for Streets -- Types of Traffic Flow -- Emergency Vehicle Access -- Traffic Volumes and Residential Dwelling Units -- Neighborhood Access to Adjacent Street System -- Street Layout and Platting -- Principles of Street Layout -- Number of Lanes -- Pavement Widths -- Right-of-Way Widths -- On-Street Parking -- Off-Street Parking -- Alleys -- Design Speed -- Gradients -- Vertical and Horizontal Alignments -- Dead-End Turnarounds -- Shared Driveways -- Streetscape -- Pedestrian and Bicycle Access -- Curb Cut Ramps -- Curbs -- Traffic Calming -- CHAPTER 3: Intersections -- Geometry of Intersections -- Intersection Angle -- Traffic Circles and Roundabouts -- Intersection Spacing -- Curb Radius -- Vertical Alignment on Intersection Approaches -- Corner Sight Distance -- CHAPTER 4: Streets as Drainage System -- Closed and Open Systems -- Street and Curb Cross-Sections -- Runoff Amounts -- Criteria for the Spread of Water across Streets -- Flow across Intersections -- Ponding at Low Points in Grade -- Maximum Velocity in Gutters -- Block and Lot Grading -- Cut-and-Fill Embankment Slopes -- CHAPTER 5: Pavement -- Subgrade -- Base -- Wearing Surface -- Life-Cycle Cost Analysis -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Taking a practical approach to planning and designing streets in master-planned, new urbanist, and other subdivisions, this book offers a fresh look at street widths, geometrics, traffic flow, intersections, drainage systems, and pavement.