Transporation & ...

Transportation Engineers need to provide a safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and sustainable transportation framework for public transportations in a country. This unit equips students with the necessary skills and theoretical and empirical knowledge in relation to transportation and highway engineering. It outlines the main modes of transports which exist within modern transport network and interactions that occur when considering the planning, design and operations of highways. It covers the concept of transport in terms of passenger movement, freight haulage and communications and identifies the factors maximizing efficiency, convenience and safety for travellers; typical highway cross-sections showing pavement details; specify the processes used for the construction and recycling of typical road pavements and their foundations; assesses the highway loading in terms of axles and sub. grade strength; use of the design manual for roads and bridge methods. Introduction to transportation engineering - Railway engineering -Railway track gauge - Alignment of railway line - Sleepers, ballast Air transportation -Aircraft characteristics related to airport design -Air traffic control -Type of an airport planning studies -Road transportation -Road inventory -Road characteristics -Characteristics of drivers, the pedestrian and the vehicles -Road safety Highway Engineering -Planning requirement for highway -Traffic volume -Highway geometric design -Sight distances -Horizontal alignment design -Vertical alignment design -Highway pavement materials -Highway pavement design and materials -Pavement construction method -Traffic flow theory -Maintenance of road pavement -Intersection control -Intersection design