Traffic and Highway Engineering
Traffic and Highway Engineering
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781305156241
Author: Garber, Nicholas J.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 6, Problem 17P
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The different shock waves that can be formed and the traffic conditions that will result in each of these shock waves.

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