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421W, Transportation Design |
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Description:
- Design of streets and highway facilities. Emphasis on geometric
elements, intersections and interchanges, roadway drainage, and
pavement design procedures.
Prerequisite: C E 321.
Prerequisite or concurrent: ENGL 202C.
Texts:
- Highway Engineering, Wright and Paquette, John Wiley
& Sons.
- A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways & Streets,
AASHTO, 1990.
TOPICS
(Reading Assignment - Topic)
- HE/1-2 Introduction to Course & Content
- GB/I Introduction & Overview of Greenbook Functional Classification
- HE/3,8 GB/II Design Vehicles/Driver Performance
- HE/5 GB/II Traffic Characteristics
- HE/6 Design Project Initial Presentation Plan Preparation (Contract
Documents)
- WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1 (Letter Proposal)
- HE/5 GB/II Highway Capacity/Access Control
- HE/8 GB/III Sight Distance (SSD, DSD, PSD)
- HE/7 Computer Applications in Highway Engineering
- HE/8 GB/III Horizontal Alinement (Superelevation)
- HE/8 GB/III Horizontal Alinement (Minimun Radius)
- Schoon/1 Factors Affecting Route Selection
- HE/8 GB/III Horizontal Alinement (Spirals, Road Widening)
- GB/III Horizontal Alinement (Sight Distance)
- Schoon/3 Application of Geometric Design Principles to Route
Design; Plan Preparation
- WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2 (Progress Report/Memorandum)
- HE/8 GB/III Vertical Alignment (Grades)
- HE/8 GB/III Vertical Alignment (Minimum V.C.)
- GB/III General Design Controls; Combination of Horizontal and
Vertical
- HE/8 GB/III Vertical Alinement (Geometry)
- GB/IV Cross Section (Roadway)
- GB/IV Cross Section (Roadway) Traffic Barriers
- HE/9 GB/IX Intersection Geometry
- HE/9 GB/IX Intersection Geometry Plan Preparation (Progress
Report #2)
- WRITING ASSIGNMENT #3 (Progress Report/Memorandum)
- HE/11 Drainage
- HE/9 GB/X Grade Separatoins & Interchanges
- HE/15 Highway Materials
- HE/16 Flexible Pavement Design Plan Preparation (Progress Report
#3)
- WRITING ASSIGNMENT #4 (Progress Report/Memorandum)
- HE/20 Rigid Pavement Design
- HE/20 Rigid Pavement Design Highway Maintenance & Rehabilitation
- HE/6 Transportation Planning
- Transport Policy
- HE/14 Quantity & Cost Estimates Contracts & Supervision
- HE/4 Environmental Impacts
- Tort Liability
- Risk Management Concepts
- WRITING ASSIGNMENT #5 (Progress Report/Oral Presentation)
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