CE2408/ CE4811
Highways and Traffic Engineering
S.No
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Contents
PLO
CLO
Taxonomy
1
Introduction to Transportation System
PLO1
CLO1
C2
Road System
Lecture-1
Highway Components and Designs
Lecture-2
Basic Traffic Engineering
Lecture-3
Introduction to resilient design
Lecture-3
2
Pavement Design and Construction
PLO3
CLO3
C6
Geometric design
Lecture-4
Structural design
Lecture-5
Highway construction
Lecture-6
Highway Materials
Lecture-6
Pavement failures
Lecture-7
Pavement failure remedies
Lecture-7
3
Traffic Engineering
PLO3
CLO3
C6
Traffic Studies/ Traffic Surveys
Lecture-8
Traffic Analysis and Modeling
Lecture-9
Computer aided Traffic Modeling
Lecture-10,11
4
Traffic Planning and Management
PLO3
CLO3
C6
Traffic Design and Safety
Lecture-12,13
Traffic Control Devices
Lecture-14,15
Traffic Capacity Management
Lecture-16
5
Sessional Activities
PLO9
CLO5
A3
Class Participation
Quiz
Term Project
Highway Laboratory
Assignments
Table of Contents
PART-1
Introduction to Transportation System
1
Introduction
Lecture-1
1.1
Traffic and Transportation
1.2
A Typical Transportation System
1.3
The Road and their history and types
1.4
Types of roads
1.5
The Highways Planning Process
1.6
Highways Planning and Design in Pakistan
1.7
Highways Planning and Design in Punjab
2
Highway Components and Design
Lecture-2
2.1
Typical cross-section and its variations
2.2
Pavement components
2.3
Flexible and Rigid Pavements
2.4
Geometric design of pavements
3
Basic Traffic Engineering
Lecture-3
3.1
Introduction
3.2
Traffic Flow Fundamentals
3.7
Introduction to resilient design
Introduction
1.1
Traffic and Transportation
Transportation is an essential for a nation’s development and growth. Transportation system
planners focus on designing new
transportation
systems and upgrading the existing one. Transport
infrastructure includes rural, urban and national roads, airports, railroads, and water transport
networks. These designs and layouts are initiated with the need analysis.
Roads and Highways are
part of a bigger transport system.
The transportation system
is used to refer to the equipment and logistics of transporting passengers
and goods whereas, Traffic
is the vehicles moving on public infrastructure (including road and
highway). Assessment, analysis, design, control and management of vehicles moving on roads is
termed as Traffic engineering.
1.2
A typical transportation system
Transport infrastructure consists of the fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways,
waterways, canals and pipelines and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations,
warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations) and
seaports.
Traditionally, people think about the transportation system as using roads and bridges to move both
goods and people. While roads and bridges are a critical part of the transportation network, people
also rely upon other systems of transportation, including:
Airports to transport people and goods long distances in a short period of time
Railways to move Passenger and freight intercity
