He's right. That book helps quite a bit. If you can try and get the teacher's anwer key as well.How many questions were in this category? Planning involves Trip Generation I believe. Try taking a look at Traffic and Highway Engineering by Garber and Hoel. I believe that book has great examples of Traffic Planning.
There's still plenty of errors, even in the instructor's manual. You just have to fix them as you go along.I concur with Maximus. The Goswami isn't necessary, but I prefer how it covers the transportation topics. It even helps with the other subjects. The only reference manual I found that covers this topic is the the Traffic and Highways Engineering book that Maximus mentioned. It covers gravity model, QRS Method, types of Mode choice models, etc. I happened to still have this book from College. My edition however was sadly riddled with errors, so it was a pain to go through and fix the mistakes. I've seen a newer edition that has fixed these mistakes.
I think it is a good topic to cover if you have already covered the major topics. I find this section is a hit or miss and is not something I would rely on to pass the exam.
Garber and Hoel is extremely good exam prep for the PM part of the PE. In fact I did great on the PM part but botched the AM part from overconfidence and rushing. I suggest you get the Teacher's Answer Manual as well.Well since the consensus seems to be:- the Transporation Planning section is poorly covered by the widely used reference texts, CERM & Goswami
- there is a good reference book out there, Traffic and Highway Engineering by Garber and Hoel
- not everyone wants to drop more $$$ on this book to potentially help answer some or none of just 3 questions on the exam.
So, to help each other out how about everyone posts here anything they find that might be free and relevant to the exam.
I'll start with this link I found:
http://www.lic.wisc.edu/shapingdane/facili...sis_traffic.htm
Where do you guys get/buy the "Teacher's Answer Manual " ?Garber and Hoel is extremely good exam prep for the PM part of the PE. In fact I did great on the PM part but botched the AM part from overconfidence and rushing. I suggest you get the Teacher's Answer Manual as well.
find a file hosting website and link it. EB.com is not in the business of online file storage.Cr@p, it looks like I am limited to 250K file size total. I thought it was 250K per post.
That's pretty weak.
It looks like I can't upload the second and third part of Chapter 14. Sorry guys.
Can't remember where I got it. Google for it that's how I found it; it's out there...Where do you guys get/buy the "Teacher's Answer Manual " ?Garber and Hoel is extremely good exam prep for the PM part of the PE. In fact I did great on the PM part but botched the AM part from overconfidence and rushing. I suggest you get the Teacher's Answer Manual as well.
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