ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Course Outline and Course Plan

Name of the
Moinul Hossain Position Assistant Professor
Teacher
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Programme Undergraduate
Introduction to Transportation
Course Code CEE 4551 Course Title
Engineering
Academic Year 2018-2019 Semester Winter
Contact Hours 3.0 Credit Hours 3.0
Text books and
1. Traffic Engineering (3rd or 4th Ed.) Authors of the 1. Roess R. P. et al.
Reference books
2. Modelling Transport (3rd or 4th Ed.) books 2. Ortuzar and Willumsen
(if any)
Prerequisites
This subject is an introductory course in Transportation Engineering
(If any)
Course
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Teaching Lecture Group discussion Demonstration Problem solving
Methods/
Approaches Project Others:
Multi-media Board and
Teaching aids OHP Marker Others

Course Assessment Method

Attendance Mid Semester Semester
Quiz 15% of Total Marks (Best 3 out of 4)
(10%) (25%) Final (50%)
1st Quiz 2nd Quiz 3rd Quiz 4th Quiz Others
Week/Date Week/Date
Week/Date Week/Date Week/Date Week/Date Assignment Homework
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Introduction to transportation engineering; development of transportation systems; elements of transportation

system; transportation in Bangladesh; modal share; transportation planning concepts: collection, study and
analysis of basic data; highway location and surveys; geometric design of highways: elements of design,
Course Contents
cross-section elements, curves and sight distances; road intersections; traffic engineering: the road/traffic
system, vehicle and traffic characteristics, traffic control devices, traffic studies, parking and roadway lighting;
waterways and terminals.
1. to provide students with an understanding of transportation and traffic engineering;
2. to help students feel justifiably confident of their ability to break down a problem in transportation
Course
engineering and solve it piece by piece;
Objective
3. to understand fundamentals of traffic engineering, road design and transportation modelling;
4. to be able to think about solutions considering technical soundness, cost, comfort, safety and sustainability.

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 Weekly plan for course content

Weeks Topics Task/Reading

1 Introduction, Design objectives and constrains/control and criteria Ch 01

2 Driving Performance, Human Factors and Road Characteristics Ch 02

3 Vehicle Characteristics Ch 02

4 Road Classifications and Horizontal Curve Ch 03

5 Vertical Curve and Cross-sectional design Ch 03

6 Intersection Design, Layout and Bus Stop design Ch 19

Ch 012,
7 Interchange Design and LOS
Lecture Notes
8 Traffic Flow Theory Ch 05

9 Volume Study Ch 08

10 Speed Study Ch 09

11 Travel Time and Delay Ch 09

12 Traffic Signal for Isolated Intersection Lecture notes

13 Transportation Modelling – 4 Step Modelling I Lecture notes

14 Transportation Modelling – 4 Step Modelling II Lecture notes

15 Review/Makeup Class

Student’s consulting hour: Email and make appointments

Instructor contact details:

Email: moinul@iut-dhaka.edu