Highway Engineering
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Highway Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Highway Engineering (subject code 2150601) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 33 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 (2150601)Unit 1 Scope of highway engineering, Highway planning and development in
- Classification of rural and urban roads
- Road patterns
- Planning and alignment surveys
Unit 2 Highway geometric design
- Cross sectional elements – width
- Sight distances – SSD, OSD, ISD, HSD, Design of horizontal and vertical alignment – curves
- summit and valley curves
Unit 3 Highway materials
- subgrade soil
- binder materials
- bituminous materials
- bituminous paving mixes
- cement and cement concrete – their engineering and physical properties
- basic tests
Unit 4 Pavement design factors, Design of flexible (GI 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 Pavement failures, Maintenance, 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 Traffic engineering
- basic elements
- road users - vehicles - traffic flow characteristics
- speed – volume studies
- parking studies
- Accident studies: causes
- collision and condition diagrams
- preventive measures
- Traffic control: markings
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