Second Semester

Syllabus

Subject                                                                       Number of hours per week

1.      Highway planning and administration (general)                                                             (2 hrs.)

Principles road network system.

2.      Traffic volume studies                                                                                                         (6 hrs.)

Traffic volume count types, techniques, Traffic volume variation, short counts, traffic volume measurements types.

3.      Speed                                                                                                                                      (2hrs.) Speed types, definition, measurement of spot speed, determination of average spot speed, speed limit, and design speed.

4.      Traffic delay study                                                                                                                (2hrs.)

Traffic delay types: signalized intersection, enroute delay

5.      Car parking                                                                                                                           (4 hrs.)

Car parking surveys, car parking types, measurements car parking, determination    of off-street parking location (moment method)

Road user, Perception procedure intellect in a human mind, factors affecting a driver                                                                                                                    Physical, psychological, modifying                                                                                        (2 hrs.)

6.      General requirements of vehicle and road                                                                        (2 hrs.) Types of sight distances                                                                                                         (2 hrs.)

 Minimum stopping sight distance, min passing sight distance at intersections, minimum radius of horizontal curve, speed change lanes lengths.

7.      Analysis of basic freeway section (uninterrupted flow) factors affecting capacity, service flow rates, and  level of service types                                                                                      (4 hrs.)

8.      Fundamental relationship between speed-flow-density, relationship   derivation, linear & nonlinear relation (speed-density)                                                                                              (6 hrs.)

9.      Headway distribution (double exponential distribution), free flow stream, restrained flow stream                                                                                                                                       (2 hrs.)

10.  Intersection Design                                                                                                                (6 hrs.)

Types and shapes of intersections, principle of intersection design, warrants for signals for at-grade intersection (briefly)

11.  Design of traffic signals (Webster method)                                                                        (4 hrs.)                               

Examples on traffic signals

12.  Methods of coordination                                                                                                      (4 hrs.)

Specifically the flexible progressive method, time distance diagram

13.   Interchanges                                                                                                                         (2 hrs.)

Types of interchanges, warrants for interchange 

14.  Traffic signs type, shapes, colors, road marking types& application                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    0                                                                                                                                              (6 hrs.)

15.  Traffic Safety                                                                                                                        (2 hrs.)

 Traffic accident causes, types, reporting surveys, analyses objectives, accident rates                        

References

The following references will be used in traffic subject:

1.   HCM (2000). Highway Capacity Manual. Transportation Research Board, TRB Special Report 209, USA.

2.   HCM (2010). Highway Capacity Manual. Transportation Research Board, TRB Special Report 616, USA.

3.    Institute of Transportation Engineering, ITE. (2010). Traffic Engineering Handbook. 6^th Edition, USA: Washington.

4.   Mannering, F., Kilareski,W., and Washburn, S. (2005). Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis. 3^rd edition, USA. 

5.    Pignataro ,L. J. “Traffic Engineering theory and practice” ,Prentice-Hall , Inc., New Jersey, USA, 1973.

6.  Salter, R. (1981). Traffic Engineering: Worked Examples and Problems. London, Macmilla

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