TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

..a brief introduction

Presented by: PRABESH ADHIKARI

M. Tech. TEM NITT, India

Civil Engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. (Wikipedia)

Transportation Engineering
ITE Institute of Transportation Engineer
application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any modes of transportation in order to provide the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods. Highway Engineering, Railway Engineering, Port and harbor Engineering, Airport Engineering etc. Highway Engineering: Traffic/Pavement/Geometric Design/ Material/Construction/Planning

Transportation Engineering..contd

Developing Facilities A Cyclic Process

Modes of Transportation

RUNWAY TAXIWAY

TERMINAL AREA

TAXI WAITING AREA

Coordination??

Highway Engineering
Highway engineering is an engineering discipline branching from civil engineering which involves the design, construction and maintenance of Highway Systems . Highway Engineers must take into account future traffic flows, design of highway intersections/interchanges, geometric alignment and design, highway pavement materials and design, structural design of pavement thickness, and pavement maintenance.

Scope of Highway Engineering

Planning and location Alignment selection and Geometric design Pavement design Materials, construction and maintenance Traffic operation and control Economics, finance and administration Environmental and social impacts

Alignment Selection & Location

Ideal alignment: safe, easy, safety and economical Factors affecting highway alignment:
Obligatory points Traffic Geometric design Economics Other considerations
Stability Drainage Geometric standards Politics

ENGINEERING SURVEYS
Highway alignment

Planning & Location Sustainable

Source: Adapted from Ralph Hall, Introducing the Concept of Sustainable Transport to the U.S. DOT through the Reauthorization of TEA-21

Planning & Location..contd

Retrofitting bike lanes by reducing no of lane

Flyover for high right turning traffic

Planning & Location..contd

Microsimulation study: TransModeler

Microsimulation study: VISSIM

Pavement Design

A typical cross-section of flexible pavement

A typical cross-section of rigid pavement

Pavement Designcontd

Overlay (charmeck.org)

Concrete permeable paver

Traffic Operation & Control

Heterogeneous traffic Kantipath (Nepal)

Homogeneous traffic Beijing (China)

Traffic Operation & Control..contd

ITS Technology in Vehicle Traffic signal

Control Room - ITS

Pothole

Innovations

THANK YOU..