401 002 Transportation Engineering

Unit I
Highway Development & Planning:
History, Development Plans, Classification of roads, Road Patterns, road development in India - Vision 2021 & Rural Road Development Vision 2025, Current road projects in India; highway alignment and highway project report preparation (Planning surveys & Master Plans based on saturation system).

Unit II:
Geometric design of highways:
Introduction; highway cross section elements; sight distance, design of horizontal alignment; design of vertical alignment; design of intersections, problems, Highway drainage, Importance of highway drainage, subsurface and surface drainage systems.

Unit III
Traffic engineering & control:
Traffic Characteristics, traffic engineering studies, traffic flow and capacity, traffic regulation and control devices (signs, signals, islands, road markings); Accident studies, types of road intersections; parking studies; highway lighting.

Unit IV
Pavement materials:
Materials used in Highway Construction and related tests - Soil subgrade and CBR Test, Stone aggregates, bituminous binders, bituminous paving mixes, viscosity based gradation of bitumen, Modified Bitumen (Cutbacks, Emulsions, Crumbed Rubber Modified Bitumen – CRMB, Polymer Modified Bitumen-PMB, Foamed Bitumen), Marshall Stability Mix Design and Test (All 5 test parameters).

Unit V
Pavement Design:
Introduction; flexible pavements – Computation of design traffic (Vehicle Damage Factor VDF, Lane distribution factor LDF, Traffic growth rate); stresses in flexible pavements; design guidelines for flexible pavements as per IRC 37-2012 (steps only); rigid pavements- components and functions; factors affecting design; stresses in rigid pavements (ESWL); design guidelines for concrete pavements as per IRC 58-2015 (steps only); joints in CC pavements, problems.

Unit VI
A. Pavement Construction:
Construction process of GSB, WBM, WMM; Cemented base, Introduction to bituminous works such as prime coat, tack coat, seal coat, Built-up Spray Grout (BSG), Asphaltic Concrete (AC) or Bituminous Concrete (BC), Bituminous Macadam (BM), Dense Bituminous Macadam (DBM) and premix carpet, Dry lean Concrete (DLC), Pavement Quality Concrete (PQC).
B. Modern Trends in Highway Materials, Construction & Maintenance:
Mastic Asphalt, Cold Mix Asphalt Technology, Warm Mix Asphalt Technology, Recycled/Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) (Manual Series - 2), Concept of Super pave Mix Design (Super pave Series 2), Non-Destructive Evaluation of Pavements (Falling Weight Deflectometer FWD).

Text Books:
1. Highway engineering – S.K. Khanna, C.E.G. Justo & A. Veeraragavan, Nem Chand and Brothers, Roorkee
2. Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis (4th edition) F. L. Mannering, Scott S. Washburn, Wiley India
3. Principles and practices of Highway engineering –Dr. L.R. Kadiyali, Khanna Publishers Delhi.

Reference Books:
1. A Course in Highway Engineering – S.P. Bindra, Dhanpat Rai and Sons, Delhi.
2. Principles of Transportation Engineering – G.V. Rao Tata MacGraw Hill Publication
3. Highway Engineering – Rangawala, Charotar publishing House, Anand 388001 (Gujrat)
4. Principles of Transportation Engineering – Partha Chakraborty, Animesh Das, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
5. Highway and Bridge Engineering – B.L. Gupta, Amit Gupta Standard publishers Distributors, Delhi.