Advances in Transportation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Advances in Transportation Engineering (subject code ME02069031) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 67 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 (ME02069031)Unit 1 Introduction to Advanced Transportation Systems
- Overview of transportation engineering
- emerging challenges in transportation
- Sustainable transportation systems
Unit 2 Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
- Introduction - Historical Background
- Benefits of ITS Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) - Trip Planner and its impact
- Traffic density measurement
- Variable message signs
- Parking guidance
- Weather information and variable speed limits
- Impacts of ATIS
- Advance Vehicle Monitoring Systems Security CCTV systems
- Wireless Sensor Network and RFID
- Blue- tooth and Wi-Fi sensors
- inductive loop detectors and image processing techniques
- Impacts of AVMS
- Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) Emergency vehicle notification systems
- Automatic Road enforcement
- Variable speed limits
- Collision avoidance systems
- Dynamic Traffic Light Sequence
- Cooperative systems on the road
- Automatic number plate recognition by Image processing
- Impacts of CVO
- ITS Applications Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) Course/Subject Code: ME02069031 Course/Subject Name: Advances in Transportation Engineering Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS)
- Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS)
- Advanced Rural Transportation Systems (ARTS)
- Automated Highway Systems, and Framework for evaluating ITS related strategies
- Smart vehicles
- Smart highways
- Adaptive Traffic Control System
- Incident management
- Driverless vehicles
- Electronic Toll Collection
- ITS and road-pricing
- ITS and regional strategic transportation planning
- including regional architectures: ITS and safety
- ITS and security
- ITS as a technology deployment program
- development and business models
- ITS and sustainable mobility
- travel demand management
- Intelligent Supporting Technologies Wireless communications
Unit 3 High Performance Highway Construction Materials
- Use of waste materials: Fly ash, Slag
- Recyclable waste
- other waste materials
- Modified bituminous materials: PMB, EMB, NRMB
- IS requirements and testing procedures
- Modified Bitumen Emulsion and tests
- Multi grade bitumen
- Anti stripping additives
- Micro surfacing: procedure
- Super pave: Binder specifications
- Aggregates and testing
- Gyratory Compactor
- High performance mixes: Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA)
- mix design
- Porous Asphalt: mix, advantages
- Fiber Reinforced Concrete: Steel
- natural fibers
- High Performance Concrete: introduction
- IS requirements
- mineral admixtures
Unit 4 Alternative Materials for Road Construction
- Necessity – Bitumen: production
- uses – Aggregate: Production
- uses – challenges in Subgrade preparation: Ground Improvement - Industrial wastes as construction materials – Natural fibres and textiles
- Energy saving and carbon emission saving techniques
- Pre-cast concrete elements for highway/railway construction
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