Introduction to transportation systems – Highway development and planning- Highway alignment- Geometric standards for different types of roads - Sight distance - Horizontal and vertical curves.
Pavement materials – specifications and tests - Pavement Design – Design elements and loads - Design of Flexible and Rigid Pavements- Pavement Construction and maintenance.
Characteristics of traffic elements - road user, vehicle and highway - Driver characteristics - vision and reaction time - Vehicle dimensions - Roadway aspects - Skidding - Other road users - Cyclists and pedestrians - Concept of capacity.
Traffic studies – volume - Manual and automatic methods of data collection - Speed studies - Travel time and delay studies - Parking studies - Road accidents.
Traffic regulations and control – Intersections Design – Highway economics and Financing - Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Books:
Khanna and Justo, Highway Engineering, Nemchand and Bros 1994.
Sharma, S.K. Principle, Practice and Design of Highway Engineering, S. Chand and Co., 1985.
Kadiyali, Principles of Highway Engineering, Khanna Publishers 1992.
