TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kulash,Walter M.
ED  - National Association of Home Builders (U.S.)
ED  - Urban Land Institute.
TI  - Residential Streets
SN  - 9780874202557
AV  - TE279.5 .K85 2001
U1  - 625.7 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Urban Land Institute
KW  - Streets
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
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