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Some noteworthy AASHTO publications are: [9] A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, often called "The Green Book" because of the color of its cover. This book covers the functional design of roads and highways including such things as the layout of intersections, horizontal curves, and vertical curves.
Green Book is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
The Green Book's motto, displayed on the front cover, urged black travelers to "Carry your Green Book with you – You may need it". [35] The 1949 edition included a quote from Mark Twain : "Travel is fatal to prejudice", inverting Twain's original meaning; as Cotten Seiler puts it, "here it was the visited, rather than the visitors, who would ...
In 1994, the AASHTO Green Book [1] defined the operating speed as "the highest overall speed at which a driver can travel on a given highway under favorable weather conditions and under prevailing traffic conditions without at any time exceeding the safe speed as determined by the design speed on a section-by-section basis," a definition which ...
The concept of design speed is evolving. The definition in the 1994 edition of the AASHTO Green Book, [10] was "the maximum safe speed that can be maintained over a specified section of highway when conditions are so favorable that the design features of the highway govern. The assumed design speed should be a logical one with respect to the ...
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Green Book is a 2018 American comedy-drama film about a tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian American bouncer who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
The Green Book, UK Treasury guidance on appraisal and evaluation of central government projects; The Green Book: A Guide to Members' Allowances, a publication of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; The Green Book Magazine, an American theater and women's interest magazine in the early 20th century; The Little Green Book, a collection of ...