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Transportation Engineering - Lecture - 1
Transportation Engineering - Lecture - 1
CE-3603
Akhtar Abbas
Assitant Professor
Transportation Engineering
Transportation
HIGHWAY
RAILWAY AND
RUNWAY
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
HIGHWAY
ENGINEERING
COURSE CONTENTS
Introduction Elements of typical cross section of road Type of cross sections Design speed Lane capacity
HIGHWAY ENGINEEERING
Capacity reducing factors Horizontal and vertical curves Grade Line Super elevation Transition Curve Curve widening Sight distance requirements
HIGHWAY ENGINEEERING
HIGHWAY ENGINEEERING
Characteristics of drivers, vehicles and road ways Traffic surveys Traffic controlling devices Highway illumination Parking Accident study
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEEING
RAILWAY
ENGINEERING
RAILWAY ENGINEERING
Element of track, Type of Gauges Type of rail sections, rail joints creep and wearing of rails. Fish plate, bearing plates and checkrails. Types of sleepers, their merits and demerits, sleeper density, spacing and stiffness of track
RAILWAY ENGINEERING
RAILWAY ENGINEERING
Types of ballast, requirements for good ballast, renewal of a ballast, formation of single and double track and formation failure. Selection of site for railway station, layout of stations and yards Points and tracks, maintenance tool and organization
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
RUNWAY ENGINEERING
RUNWAY ENGINEERING
Airport requirements site selection Airport classification Aircraft characteristics Runway length and runway configuration Runway lighting Airport drainage system
BOOKS
BOOKS
Introduction to Transportation Engineering. International Edition by James H. Banks Transportation Engineering an introduction 3rd Edition by C. jotin Khisty and B Kent Lall
BOOKS
Highway Engineering 6th Edition by Paul H. Wright Highway Engineering 4th Edition by Clarkson H. Oglesby A policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets 2004 (Green Book)
NEXT LECTURE
INTRODUCTION
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation
MARKS DISTRIBUTION
MID + FINAL = 60 ASSIGNMENTS = 5 QUIZES = 13 POSITIVE PARTICIPATION IN LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS =2 LAB =20 TOTAL =100
FIRST QUIZ
SECOND QUIZ
20-02-2012 FOR SECTION A 23-02-2012 FOR SECTION B 19-03-2012 FOR SECTION A 22-03-2012
THIRD QUIZ
FINAL QUIZ
23-04-2012 FOR SECTION A 26-04-2012 FOR SECTION B 14-05-2012 FOR SECTION A 17-05-2012
THIRD
22-05-2012