Transportation Engineering

CE-3603

The University of Lahore

www.uol.edu.pk

Akhtar Abbas
Assitant Professor

Transportation Engineering

Civil Engineering is a composite of many specific disciplines.

Structural Waste Treatment Transportation Geotechnical Water Management Construction Management

Transportation

HIGHWAY
RAILWAY AND

RUNWAY

Link: Transportation at work

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

HIGHWAY

ENGINEERING

COURSE CONTENTS
Introduction Elements of typical cross section of road Type of cross sections Design speed Lane capacity

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Capacity reducing factors Horizontal and vertical curves Grade Line Super elevation Transition Curve Curve widening Sight distance requirements

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Principles of intersection design for at grade and grade separated intersections

Channelization Highway construction materials their properties and tests

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Characteristics of drivers, vehicles and road ways Traffic surveys Traffic controlling devices Highway illumination Parking Accident study

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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

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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

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RUNWAY ENGINEERING

RUNWAY ENGINEERING

Airport requirements site selection Airport classification Aircraft characteristics Runway length and runway configuration Runway lighting Airport drainage system

BOOKS

Highway 4th Edition by C.A.O Flaherty

Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis 2nd Edition by Fred I. Mannering and Walter P. kilareski

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

Transportation Engineers design and analyze

Highways, Railways, Airports, Urban and Suburban Road Networks, Parking Lots, and Traffic Control Signal Systems.
Link: Transportation at work

MARKS DISTRIBUTION
MID + FINAL = 60 ASSIGNMENTS = 5 QUIZES = 13 POSITIVE PARTICIPATION IN LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS =2 LAB =20 TOTAL =100

SHEDULE FOR QUIZES AND ASSIGNMENTS

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

SHEDULE FOR QUIZES AND ASSIGNMENTS

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

SHEDULE FOR QUIZES AND ASSIGNMENTS

SUBMISSION DATE OF FIRST ASSIGNMENT 13-03-2012

SECOND 09-04-2012

THIRD

22-05-2012