Course Description
Theory and practice in highway design. Highway classification and design criteria, Location studies, design of vertical and horizontal alignment, intersections, and environmental factors. Highway drainage elements, design of bituminous and concrete pavements for highway, airports, and special heavy loading. Introduction to traffic engineering. Transportation characteristics, human and vehicle characteristics, traffic stream characteristics, and traffic volume studies. Roadway capacity, interchange capacity, accident analysis, speed studies, and travel time studies. Transportation planning, traffic safety management, traffic demand and impact studies. Introduction to traffic control devices, signing and guide signing, and pavement markings. Designing safe work zones, traffic signals, and traffic signal control systems.
Course ID: CONEN 442
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | 3 | 3 | CONEN 451 |
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