| Course Name | Transportation Engineering I |
| Course Code | 15CVL313 |
| Program | B. Tech. in Civil Engineering |
| Semester | Six |
| Year Taught | 2019 |
Highway Engineering: Introduction to Transportation Systems and Study of System Characteristics; Salient features of first, second, third and fourth road development plans in India – planning surveys and master plan preparations. Classification of Roads; Highway Planning; Geometrical Design – Road Cross Sections, Sight Distance and Applications, Super elevation, Horizontal and Vertical Alignment.
Pavement Materials, Design, Construction & Maintenance: Pavement Materials – Aggregate and Bitumen Characteristics and Testing, Bituminous Mix Design – Marshall Mix Design; Pavement Design – Design Elements and Loads. Design of flexible and rigid pavements – CBR method and guidelines of IRC method. Pavement Construction and maintenance– related equipment.
Traffic engineering and control: Introduction – Road user, vehicle and traffic characteristics – Speed and volume studies – Principles of design of at-grade intersections – Simple layouts – Objectives, classification and uses of traffic signs and road markings.Classification of transport technologies-intermodal co-ordination – ITS and automated highways.
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