Basics of Transportation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Basics of Transportation Engineering (subject code 2721316) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 14 units, covering 58 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 (2721316)Unit 1 Introduction
- Importance of transportation
- various modes and their suitability. 5 10%%
Unit 2 Urban transportation systems planning
- para-transit systems
- fare structure. 5 10%
Unit 3 Travel demand modeling
- Land use planning
- trip generation
- trip distribution
- modal split
- trip assignment
- their analysis. 5 10%
Unit 4 Traffic Engineering
- Basic elements-user
- Their characteristics and inter actions
- traffic flow
- classified volume
- PCU concept
- speed-flow-density relationship
- travel time and delay measurement techniques
- accident analysis
Unit 5 Traffic Infrastructures
- Highway geometric elements
- grade-separated intersections
- bus stops
- terminal area
- truck terminals
Unit 6 Railway, Air port and Docks-Harbour
- Their planning at the regional context
- important characteristics
- cargo and passenger demand forecasting
- planning and design of terminal area facilities
Unit 7 Pavements
- design criteria
- CBR method
- Marshall stability test
- C.C. pavement design
- Construction methods for flexible and rigid pavements
- evaluation study
- Benkelman beam deflection study
- unevenness measurement
- design of overlays
- maintenance management
Unit 8 Economic evaluation and Environmental Impact Assessment
- procedures for transportation projects. 5 10% References: 1
- Principles of urban transportation system planning- McGraw-Hill
- New York
- Edward K.Morlok
- Transportation Engg. and Planning 3
- Metropolitan Transportation Planning Tata McGraw-Hill
- New Delhi
- Blunder and Black
- Land useTtransportation System 5
- J.Ortuzer and L.G
- Modelling Transport
- Johan Wiley and Sons Chincester
- Urban Transit : Operations
- Planning and Economics
- Wiley Sons Publishers. 7
- Peter White
- Public Transport
- UCL Press 8
- Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning
- Khanna Publishers
Unit 16 M.Wohl and B.V.Martin, Traffic System Analysis for Engineering and Planners,
- New York
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