Basics of Transportation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Basics of Transportation Engineering (subject code 2144003) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 57 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2144003)Unit 1 Module - I
- Introduction Scope of transportation engineering
- Historical development of transport in India – 20 year Road Plans
- National Transportation Policy Recommendations, IRC, CRRI
- NHDP, and PMGSY
- Classification of rural and urban roads
- Road patterns
- Planning and alignment surveys
- Characteristics of different modes of transport and their integrations and interactions
Unit 2 Module-II
- Geometric design Cross sectional elements – Carriageway
- Right of Way, Camber
- Building and Control line
- Surface and subsurface drainage
- Sight distance Elements - SSD, OSD, ISD, HSD, Design of horizontal alignment - curves
- Extra widening
- Design of Vertical Alignment: Gradients
- summit and valley curves- Design based on comfort criteria and sight distance criteria
Unit 3 Module-III
- Highway materials Subgrade soil
- binder materials
- bituminous materials
- bituminous paving mixes: WBM, DBM, BC, SDBC
- Marshall Method of Mix Design cement and cement concrete - their engineering and physical properties
- basic tests
Unit 4 Module-IV
- Pavement Analysis and Design Pavement design factors
- Design of flexible (GI
- IRC and CBR method) and rigid pavements (fatigue concept)
- Construction of earthen
- Gravel, WBM, Bituminous
- Cement concrete
- RCC and Pre-stressed concrete roads
- Soil stabilized roads
Unit 5 Module-V
- Pavement maintenance Pavement failures
- Surface and sub-surface drainage
- Hill roads - alignment
- drainage and maintenance
- Road side development - arboriculture
- street lighting
- Highway administration
- economics and finance
- road safety audit
Unit 6 Module-VI
- Traffic Engineering: Traffic engineering: basic elements
- road users - vehicles - traffic flow characteristics
- speed-volume studies
- travel-time studies
- origin and destination studies
- Traffic Stream Models: Greenshield’s model
- Greenberg’s logarithmic model
- Underwood’s exponential model
- parking studies
- Accident studies: collision and condition diagrams
- preventive measures
- Concept of Capacity and Level of Service
- Traffic control: markings
- Design of Signalized Intersections
Unit 7 Module-VII
- Intelligent Transport System (ITS): Introduction: Geographical Concepts and terminology
- Difference between image processing system and geographic information system (GIS)
- Utility of GIS, essential components of GIS
- Components of ITS, architecture of integration with GIS, analysis and visualizations of traffic data in GIS, integration of GPS & GIS
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