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    This document provides information on the transportation engineering course CE308. The course is offered for 3 credits and was introduced in 2016. The objectives are to introduce principles of highway and airport engineering and enable students to design highways and airports. The syllabus covers topics like highway alignment and geometric design, pavement materials and design, traffic engineering, and airport planning and design. The expected outcomes are for students to design highway elements, analyze pavement materials and design flexible pavements, and conduct traffic studies to manage transportation facilities and design basic airports. The course plan lists the modules to be covered over the semester and details the end semester exam pattern.

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    This document provides information on the transportation engineering course CE308. The course is offered for 3 credits and was introduced in 2016. The objectives are to introduce principles of highway and airport engineering and enable students to design highways and airports. The syllabus covers topics like highway alignment and geometric design, pavement materials and design, traffic engineering, and airport planning and design. The expected outcomes are for students to design highway elements, analyze pavement materials and design flexible pavements, and conduct traffic studies to manage transportation facilities and design basic airports. The course plan lists the modules to be covered over the semester and details the end semester exam pattern.

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    This document provides information on the transportation engineering course CE308. The course is offered for 3 credits and was introduced in 2016. The objectives are to introduce principles of highway and airport engineering and enable students to design highways and airports. The syllabus covers topics like highway alignment and geometric design, pavement materials and design, traffic engineering, and airport planning and design. The expected outcomes are for students to design highway elements, analyze pavement materials and design flexible pavements, and conduct traffic studies to manage transportation facilities and design basic airports. The course plan lists the modules to be covered over the semester and details the end semester exam pattern.

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    Course L-T-P- Year of

    Course Name
    Code Credits Introduction

    CE308 TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING - I 3-0-0-3 2016

    Pre-requisite : NIL
    Course objectives:
     To introduce the principles and practice of Highway Engineering and Airport Engineering.
     To enable students to have a strong analytical and practical knowledge of geometric design
    of highways.
     To introduce pavement design concepts, material properties, construction methods and to
    design highway pavements.
     To understand the principles of traffic engineering and apply this for efficient management of
    transportation facilities.
    Syllabus:
    Classification and alignment of highways- Geometric design of highways- Properties and testing of
    pavement materials- CBR method of flexible pavement design- Construction and maintenance of
    pavements- Design of runways, taxiways and aprons.
    Traffic characteristics- Traffic studies and analysis- Traffic control devices
    Airport characteristics- Aircraft component parts- Site selection-Design of runways, taxiways and
    aprons- Terminal area planning- Airport marking and lighting
    Expected Outcomes:
    The students will be able to
    i. Design various geometric elements of a highway
    ii. Determine the characteristics of pavement materials and design flexible pavements
    iii. Conduct traffic engineering studies and analyze data for efficient management of roadway
    facilities, Plan and design basic airport facilities
    Text Books :
    1. Khanna, S.K. & Justo E.G., Highway Engineering, Nem Chand & Bros., 2000
    2. Kadiyali, L. R., Principles of Highway Engineering, Khanna Publishers, 2001
    3. Khanna, S. K. & Arora. M. G., Airport Planning and Design, Nemchand& Bros.

    References:
    1. Horonjeff R. & McKelvy, F., Planning and Design of Airports, McGraw Hill, 5e, 2010
    2. IRC: 37-2001, Guidelines for the Design of Flexible Pavements, IRC 2001, New Delhi
    3. IRC:37-2012, Tentative Guidelines for the Design of Flexible Pavements
    4. O’ Flaherty, C.A (Ed.)., Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, Elsevier, 1997
    5. Rangwala, S. C. , Airport Engg. Charotar Publishing Co., 16e, 2016
    6. Yoder, E. J & Witezak, M. W, Principles of Pavement Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1991

    COURSE PLAN
    Sem.
    Exam
    Module Contents Hours
    Marks
    %
    Introduction to Transportation Engineering, Classification of roads,
    Typical cross sections of roads in urban and rural area,
    Requirements and factors controlling alignment of roads,
    I 6 15
    Engineering surveys for highway location- Introduction to geometric
    design of highways, Design controls and criteria, Design of highway
    cross section elements.

    Sight distance, Stopping sight distance, Overtaking sight distance,


    II 7 15
    Design of horizontal alignment and Vertical alignment
    FIRST INTERNAL EXAMINATION
    Introduction to highway materials, design and construction,
    Desirable properties and testing of road aggregates, bituminous
    III materials and sub grade soil. 7 15
    Flexible and rigid pavements, Factors influencing the design of
    pavements, CBR method and IRC guidelines for flexible pavements
    Introduction to performance grading and superpave, Construction of
    bituminous pavements, Types and causes of failures in flexible and
    6
    IV rigid pavements, Highway drainage. 15
    Introduction to Traffic Engineering, Traffic characteristics, Traffic
    studies and their applications.
    SECOND INTERNAL EXAMINATION
    Types of road intersections, Traffic control devices, Traffic signs, Road
    markings and Traffic signals, Design of isolated signals by Webster’s
    method. 8
    Introduction to Airport Engineering, Aircraft characteristics and 20
    V
    their influence on planning of airports, Components of airport,
    Selection of site for airport
    Runway orientation, basic runway length and corrections required,
    8
    Geometric design of runways, Design of taxiways and aprons,
    VI 20
    Terminal area planning, Airport markings, Lighting of runway
    approaches, taxiways and aprons, Air traffic control
    END SEMESTER EXAMINATION
    QUESTION PAPER PATTERN (End semester examination)

    Maximum Marks :100 Exam Duration: 3 Hrs

    Part A -Module I & II : 2 questions out of 3 questions carrying 15 marks each

    Part B - Module III & IV: 2 questions out of 3 questions carrying 15 marks each

    Part C - Module V & VI : 2 questions out of 3 questions carrying 20 marks each

    Note : 1.Each part should have at least one question from each module

    2.Each question can have a maximum of 4 subdivisions (a, b, c, d)

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