Journal Institution Of Highway Engineers

Vol. 7, no.7, July 1924, contains papers prepared by Canadian engineers for the first World power conference, July, 1924.

There can be no thriving local or national economy without a reliable and well-maintained land transportation network. In order to facilitate economic expansion and social development, society relies on a reliable and convenient land transportation network, and roads have always been and will always be an integral part of this system. Road’s relevance and utility have grown with the development of faster and more efficient forms of transportation and the rapid acceleration of economic activity in modern human civilization. However, when careful consideration is not given to road development at the stages of planning, design, building, and management, the potential for negative consequences has increased in proportion. The discipline of highway engineering has to go beyond just satisfying the fundamental necessities of delivering safe and rapid access from one location to another, to an area of study that not only includes “the structural and functional requirements of highways” and city streets, but also handles the socio-economic and environmental implications of road network growth, allowing us to maximise the advantages and limit the negative effects of road construction. These "softer" elements of “highway engineering” and the social duties of highway engineers are not fully covered in the traditional engineering curriculum. This book has five chapters devoted to Transportation & Highway Engineering in an effort to give these subjects the attention they deserve. Most experts believe that in today's world, a highway engineer has to be well-versed in topics as diverse as highway funding, access management, environmental implications, road safety, and noise. Students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels of civil engineering as well as highway engineering should find the five chapters adequate for understanding the environmental and social obligations of a highway engineer. There is also a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the movement toward privati.

This publication presents the perspectives and insights of the world's present-day authorities on bridge aesthetics and design. Bridge engineers and architects representing 16 nations examine and highlight the aesthetic appearance of existing bridges with the goal of improving tomorrow's bridge design. Supplementing the individual papers is a comprehensive bibliography on bridge aesthetics, containing annotated references to more than 250 books, papers, and articles. There are 245 black-and-white photographs and numerous line drawings plus 24 pages of color plates. Author biographical information is provided and an index of bridges and locations is included. Individual entries into the TRIS data base have been made for the 22 papers and the bibliography.