CIVE 1180 TRANSPORT ENGINEERING 1

WEEK #1 - Lecture

Professor Filippo Giustozzi

Contact Details

• Prof. Filippo Giustozzi

• room 10.13.05C
• email: [email protected]
• consultation hours: online through Microsoft Teams or face-to-
face (appointment via email required)

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 Content Overview - Lectures
❑ Week #1 – General course introduction, intro to road design, design considerations
❑ Week #2 – Fundamental considerations, speed parameters, cross-section of
roads
❑ Week #3 – Sight Distance, Coordination of horizontal and vertical alignment
❑ Week #4 – Horizontal alignment
❑ Week #5 – Vertical alignment
❑ Week #6 – Mid Semester assessment Mid-semester break

❑ Week #7 – Intersections and crossings

❑ Week #8 – Roundabouts
❑ Week #9 – Road Pavements – Part 1
❑ Week #10 – Road Pavements – Part 2
❑ Week #11 – Sustainability in road engineering and recycled materials
❑ Week #12 – Industry Seminar TBC

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 Content Overview - Tutorials
❑ Week #1 – AutoCAD tutorial
❑ Week #2 – Operating Speed Estimation exercise
❑ Week #3 – Sight Distance exercises, AutoCAD: import terrain map, preliminary
design steps
❑ Week #4 – exercises on horizontal curve design
❑ Week #5 – AutoCAD: developing the horizontal alignment
❑ Week #6 – exercises on vertical curve design; Mid Sem assessment (20%)
❑ Week #7 – AutoCAD: development of the road vertical profile Mid-semester break

❑ Week #8 – exercises on intersections and roundabouts; AT Part A - due (8%)

❑ Week #9 – AutoCAD: vertical curves and calculation of earthworks
❑ Week #10 – AutoCAD: road cross-sections
❑ Week #11 – exercises on Road Pavements and construction machines
❑ Week #12 – no tutorial; AT Part B - due (22%+10%)

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 TEXTBOOKS and other material

➢ GUIDE TO ROAD DESIGN, AUSTROADS, posted weekly in Canvas

➢ GUIDE TO PAVEMENT TECHNOLOGY, AUSTROADS, posted in

Canvas

➢ Additional material will also be distributed through Canvas

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 EVALUATION of ACHIEVEMENTS

FINAL GRADE =
Mid-Sem assessment [20%] + Group Design Project [8+22%+10%]
+ Workplace Practical assignment [40%]

Mid-Sem assessment (Individual) scheduled in Week #6

Road Design Project - Part A (Group) due in Week #8
Road Design Project - Part B (Group) due in Week #12
Workplace Practical Assignment (Individual) due in Week #13-14

Note: late submissions will be penalised at 10% per day as per RMIT guidelines;
plagiarism will be reported to RMIT Plagiarism Team for action.

Note2: an anonymous peer assessment can be conducted if disputes arise between

group members

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 Evaluation of Achievements
MID-SEM. assessment (Individual) – [20%]
Date: Week #6, check Canvas for date/time
Time: 45 minutes
Note: closed-book, questions will be drawn from Week 1 to
Week 5 lectures and tutorials material; AutoCAD tutorials are
excluded from the mid-sem assessment; can use non-
programmable calculators.

Will include:
❑ multiple choice quizzes
❑ numerical exercises and/or open-answer questions
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 Evaluation of Achievements
Group Design Project (group) – [40%]
Date: Part A due Week #8, Part B due Week #12
Note: Each group will be responsible for the geometric design
of a road between two points on a given map in accordance
with Austroads - Guide to Road Design. The design project will
be submitted as a technical report; appendices containing
calculations and technical drawings should also be included.

AutoCAD is required for this assignment.

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 GROUP ASSIGNMENT rules
✓ Online enrolment (‘People’ tab in Canvas) by WEEK 3
✓ Max. 5 people
✓ First who joins automatically nominated Group Coordinator
✓ Cannot change group during the semester but can
independently move from one group to another before the
end of Week #3
✓ Do not complain about your group/group coordinator but
rather provide solutions to issues that may arise
✓ The assignment will require AutoCAD (accessible through
My Desktop + installed on all RMIT computers + available for
download free of charge for students)
✓ Can run a peer assessment if disputes arise among group
members

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 Evaluation of Achievements
Workplace Practical Assignment (Individual) – [40%]
Date: TBD (Weeks 13-14)
Time: 24 hours
Note: open-book assignment, simulate work environment
where you are given a task and have to report within a specific
deadline. You have 24 hours to submit your assignment
through Canvas. This is an OPEN-BOOK assignment; you are
free to use any source you may deem suitable to complete the
assignment.
AutoCAD is required for this assignment.

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LECTURE rules

✓ All lectures will be pre-recorded and posted in Canvas as

per RMIT guidelines;
✓ Lecture slides will be posted weekly in advance.

Suggestion: take notes while watching the lecture, it significantly

helps reduce the amount of additional study hours needed.

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 ENGAGE WITH US…

✓ Civil and Infrastructure Engineering - RMIT University

LinkedIn Group Page

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10377255

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 WEEK #1 - Objectives

After completing this subject, you should be able to:

1. describe the context of the road design process;

2. understand the principles and objectives of road design;
3. identify the functional class of different roads.

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MATERIAL FOR TODAY’S LECTURE CAN BE
FOUND HERE:

• Guide to Road Design PART 1:

Objectives of Road Design, Austroads

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THE AUSTROADS ‘GUIDE TO ROAD DESIGN’
PURPOSE

it is a primary REFERENCE, it is NOT the law.

APPLICATION

✓ It is aimed primarily at practitioners with direct responsibility for the design of

roads; less experienced designers will need to integrate with other material from
the Guide’s commentaries and resource documents.

✓ Design practices describe a wide range of road categories BUT do not address
urban local-access roads.

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THE AUSTROADS ‘GUIDE TO ROAD DESIGN’

➢ Part 1 – Introduction to Road Design

➢ Part 2 – Design Considerations
➢ Part 3 – Geometric Design
➢ Part 4 – Intersections and Crossings
➢ Part 4a – Unsignalised and Signalised Intersections
➢ Part 4b – Roundabouts

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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

Mathematical rules
Conflicting goals

➢ Operating speed ➢ Safety

➢ Geometric design ➢ Costs
➢ Topography ➢ Environment
➢… ➢…
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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

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 CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

Minor improvements Major construction works

- regional/inter-regional development
- Local development - Great environmental/social impacts
- Great interaction with agencies/authorities/users
- No significant environmental/social impacts
- Land use and transport planning considerations
- Minimal interaction with road user groups - Life-cycle costs

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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

ITERATIVE PROCESS

➢ Effects
➢ Costs
➢ Benefits
➢ Alternatives
➢ Communication

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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

ROAD SAFETY
Safe System Approach (since 2004)
Hypotheses
✓ People make mistakes 4 PILLARS
✓ People are vulnerable
✓ Shared responsibility
✓ Enforce safety principles on all parts
of the system

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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

ROAD SAFETY

Rural roads/Major arterials

Multi-vehicle crash

Single-vehicle crash

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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

ROAD SAFETY

Urban roads

Vehicle-cyclist accidents

Vehicle-public transport crashes

Vehicle-pedestrian accidents
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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

ROAD SAFETY

‘Design-for-Safety’ principles
➢ Users should be able to negotiate road alignments and potential
conflicts with other users
➢ Effective transitions where a reduction in standard is necessary
➢ ‘Controlled’ release of relevant information
➢ Repeated information
➢ Self-explaining roads to provide guidance through unusual sections

Road Design is not only about meeting requirements

and recommended values but it is also based on
EXPERIENCE and PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT.

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CONTEXT OF THE ROAD DESIGN PROCESS

ROAD SAFETY AUDIT

Road safety audit is "... a formalized examination of an existing or future
road or traffic project or any project which interacts with road users, in which
an independent, qualified examiner reports on the project's accident
potential and safety performance." Austroads

A complementary tool to promote accident reduction

through accident prevention.
◼ Process that includes safety checks and audits

◼ Improve the awareness of the safe design

practices by all of those involved in the planning,
design, construction and maintenance of roads

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ROAD DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Horizontal Curves

Vertical Curves
Cross-section
ROAD DESIGN

Gradients
Merge/diverge areas

Intersections
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ROAD DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Environment

Safety
Costs
ROAD DESIGN

Professional
Benefits
Judgement

Reality check
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GEOMETRIC CONSISTENCY

Self-Explaining Road (!)

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GEOMETRIC CONSISTENCY

Driver Workload

Too high

Too low

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FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS

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FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE DESIGN STANDARDS

➢ The VEHICLE
▪ Motorised/non-motorised/pedestrian
▪ Larger vehicles
▪ Heavy vehicles

➢ HUMAN FACTORS
▪ User behaviour
▪ Ability to process information and execute the
actions
▪ Physical attributes

➢ ROAD FACTORS
▪ Speed parameters
▪ Pavement conditions

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