This course is aimed to provide an introduction to transportation engineering and traffic design to all civil engineering students. It will cover all basic topics of modern transportation and traffic theory for civil engineering applications.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

· Comprehend the basic characteristics of transportation system and fundamentals of traffic theory

· Understand standard processes for predicting travel demand, recognize their strengths and weaknesses.

· Comprehend the basic concepts of traffic flow and methods to measure it.

· Compute traffic flow for performance measures and conduct appropriate analysis.

· Recognise all important components of road system and understand the basic principles of geometric and pavement design.

· Design vertical and horizontal profiles of roadways, flexible and rigid pavements.

Course content:

Transportation systems; Transport network principles; Transport demand models; Transportation planning and management; Basic traffic theory; Traffic flow studies; Geometric design of roads and intersections; Horizontal and vertical alignments of highways; Cross-sections and earthworks; Design of flexible and rigid pavements.