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Course Orientation: Highway and Railroad Engineering

The document provides an overview of a course on highway and railroad engineering. The course aims to teach students methods and principles for designing and managing road and railroad infrastructure. Key topics covered include transportation systems, traffic flow analysis, road and track characteristics, geometric design, structural design, maintenance, and traffic engineering. By the end of the course, students should be able to define basic concepts, recognize design concepts, explain service requirements, and analyze traffic flow. The course outline covers topics such as transportation modes, planning, design criteria, alignments, pavements, maintenance, traffic studies, and pavement design.

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Course Orientation: Highway and Railroad Engineering

The document provides an overview of a course on highway and railroad engineering. The course aims to teach students methods and principles for designing and managing road and railroad infrastructure. Key topics covered include transportation systems, traffic flow analysis, road and track characteristics, geometric design, structural design, maintenance, and traffic engineering. By the end of the course, students should be able to define basic concepts, recognize design concepts, explain service requirements, and analyze traffic flow. The course outline covers topics such as transportation modes, planning, design criteria, alignments, pavements, maintenance, traffic studies, and pavement design.

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Course Orientation

HIGHWAY AND
RAILROAD
ENGINEERING
Course Description

Present the methods and underlyng principles for the design and
control of elements of road and railroad infrastructure. Students
also become familiar with transportation system terminology, flow
analysis driver, vehicle and road chaacteristics, and aspect of road
geometrics, road construction, drainage, pavements and
maintenance.
Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students must be able to:


1. Define the basic concepts of highway and railroad transportation
and present how to apply them in civil engineering practice.
2. Recognize the concepts associated with the geometric and
structural design of highway and railway engineering systems.
3. Explain the basic service requirements of highway and detail the
procedure to conduct level of service analysis.
4. Develop basic traffic stream parameters and models, traffics
flow models, and apply the queuing theory.
Course Outline

1. Importance of transportation, different modes of transportation,


characteristics of road transport, scope of highway and traffic
engineering.
2. Highway development and planning: Importance, classification of
roads, road patterns, planning surveys: highway alignment and
surveys.
3. Design criteria for highway and railways.
4. Geometric design for highways and railways, including cross
sections, horizontal and vertical alignments, super-elevation and
earthworks.
5. Structural design of railways and pavements
Course Outline

6. Failures, maintenance and rehabilitation of transportation


infrastructure.
7. Traffic Engineering: Traffic characteristics-Traffic studies-speed,
volume, speed delay, origon-destination, parking and accident
studies; capacity of urban roads and highways; traffic operations
regulation and control; design of intersections at grade and grade
separated.
8. Traffic flow and analysis of roads including queuing analysis and level
of service assessment.
9. Paveme Materials and Design: Specification and test on pavement
materials, pavement design factors, design of flexible and rigid
pavements as per IRC
Reference

1. Mannering Fred, Washburn Scot, Kilaresky Walter, 2004. Principles of


Highway Engineering & Traffic Analysis, Muze, Inc.
2. Wright, Paul H,2003, Highway Engineering, Wiley & Sons.
3. Garber. Nicholas; & Hoel, Lester, 2001, Highway and Traffic Engineering
Brookes/Cole Publishing
4. Fajardo, Max Jr. B. Elements of Roads and Highway, 2nd Edition, 5138
Merchandizing Publisher, Manila, 1998.
5. Department of Public Works & Highways, 1995. Standard Specification
for Public Works and Highways(Volume II , Standard Specification for
Highways, Bridges and Airports) DPWH, Office of the Secretary,
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila
6. Hay, W.W. 1982. Railroad Engineering, 2nd Edition, Wiley.
7. Armstrong, J.H. 2008. The Railroad: What it is, What it Does, 5th Edition

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