Transportation Engineering
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Transportation Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Transportation Engineering (subject code 3150611) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 75 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 (3150611)Unit 1 Introduction
- Importance of Transportation
- Different modes of transportation
- Overview of Road
- Air and Water Transportation
- Comparison of various modes of Transportation
- Organizations and their functions - Central Road Research Institute (CRRI)
- Indian Road Congress (IRC)
- Railway Board (RB)
- Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI)
- Airport Authority of India (AAI)
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
Unit 2 Highway Transportation
- Introduction: Highway planning and development in India
- Classification of Rural and Urban roads
- Highway alignment and surveys
- Preparation of Detailed Project Report
- Highway Geometric Design: Importance
- highway cross section elements
- sight distance
- design of horizontal alignment
- design of vertical alignment
- design of intersection
- Highway Materials: Components of highway pavement and materials used
- Soil: Importance
- Desirable properties
- Index properties
- Strength evaluation tests
- Aggregate: Functions
- Tests on road aggregates and quality control
- Bituminous binders: Functions
- Tests on bitumen and quality control
- Bitumen emulsion functions and classification
- Modified bituminous binder 30 BE Semester-V Subject Code: 3150611 functions and classification
- Bituminous Mix: Desirable properties and requirement of design mix, general approach for design of bituminous mixes and introduction to Marshall Mix Design Method
- Design and Construction of Pavement: Pavement component functions
- factors affecting pavement design and basic pavement design of Flexible and Rigid pavement as per IRC guidelines
- Steps for construction of highway on embankment and in cutting
- Construction of embankment and subgrade
- soil stabilization
- Flexible Pavement: Construction of Granular Sub-Base/Drainage layer
- Construction of Granular Base Course-WBM and WMM, Construction of bituminous pavement layers- base course and surface course
- prime coat and tack coat
- Rigid Pavement: Types of cement concrete pavement
- components of cement concrete pavement and its functions
- construction of cement concrete pavement
- joints in cement concrete pavement-function and construction
- Pavement Maintenance: Objective and classification of highway maintenance works
- Distresses and maintenance measures in flexible and rigid pavements
- Concept of pavement evaluation: Functional and Structural Highway Drainage
- Arboriculture and Lighting: Requirements of drainage system
- Surface drainage system
Unit 3 Rail Transportation
- Role of Indian Railways in National Development
- Basic requirement of railway alignment and functions of Permanent Way, Types of components and functions: Gauge
- Purpose: Coning of wheel
- points and crossing
- signalling and interlocking
- junction and terminal
Unit 4 Water Transportation
- Harbour: Classification
- site selection
- Definitions: Harbour
- Plimsoll Line
- Structures and functions: Jetty
- Natural Phenomenon: Tides
- Navigational Aids: Lighthouse
Unit 5 Air Transportation
- Airport: Classification
- Master plan
- Site selection
- Zoning laws
- imaginary surfaces
- Aircraft Component parts
- Importance and Purpose: Wind rose diagram
- Runway Orientation
- terminal building
- Marking and lighting on Runway
- Taxiway and Apron 3 BE Semester-V Subject Code: 3150611
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