Semester:

6

Course Code:

CE3180

Course Name:

Transportation and Highway Engineering

Credit Value:

3 (Notional hours:150)

Prerequisites:

None

Core/Optional

Core

Hourly Breakdown

Lecture hrs.

Tutorial hrs.

Fieldwork hrs.

Independent Learning & Assessment hrs.

38

2

15

95

Course Aim: To impart knowledge on transportation planning, traffic engineering and management, highway design methods and maintenance techniques.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the course, the students should be able to;

➢    describe transportation systems and methods of transportation planning and demand estimation.

➢    characterize and select appropriate materials for highway construction based on the engineering properties.

➢    design flexible pavements and highway drainage.

➢    select appropriate highway maintenance techniques.

➢    analyze and interpret traffic data and select suitable traffic management measures.

Course Content:

➢    Introduction to transportation engineering: Importance of transportation, induction to transportation system and its components, modes of transportation, effect of transportation on economic development

➢    Basic transportation planning and demand estimation: Basis for transportation planning, introduction to traditional four-stage transport planning process

➢    Highway construction materials: Introduction to subgrade materials, compaction tests, field compaction procedures, CBR test, production and testing of aggregates, production and testing of bitumen

➢    Highway designs: Introduction to geometric designs, vertical and horizontal curves, compound curves, setting out of curves, main highway pavement types, empirical methods of flexible pavement designs, design charts, mechanistic methods of flexible pavement designs, introduction to rigid pavement

➢    Drainage design: importance of drainage in highways, types of drains and culverts, design of surface drainage

➢    Highway maintenance: Introduction to highway evaluation and maintenance, basic maintenance categories and activities, economic aspects of highway maintenance

➢    Traffic engineering: Fundamentals of traffic flow, traffic flow theory, speed-flow-density relationships, highway capacity and level of service, field traffic surveys

➢    Traffic management: Introduction to traffic management and travel demand management.

Teaching /Learning Methods:

Classroom lectures, tutorial discussions, field surveys

Assessment Strategy:

Continuous Assessment

40%

Final Assessment

60%

Details:

Tutorials/Fieldwork/Quizzes    20%

Mid Semester Examination           20%

Theory (%)

60%

Practical (%)

-

Other (%)

-

Recommended Reading:

➢    Garber, N.J., Hoel, L.A. (2014). Traffic & Highway Engineering. 5th edn. Cengage Learning.

➢    Fricker, J.D. & Whitford, R.K. (2004), Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering, 1st edn, Pearson Prentice Hall.