Railway and Airport Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Railway and Airport Engineering (subject code 1721304) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 44 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 (1721304)Unit 1 Rail Transportation System
- Importance of Railway for regional development
- Railway Track system & sub-structures
- Railway infrastructure
- Modernization in track
- safety in railways
- under-ground railways
Unit 2 Demand analysis and forecasting for passenger and freight traffic costing and
- pricing principles
- project analysis and design
- project interdependencies and programming techniques
- systems analysis and systems planning
- planning strategies for regional context
- macroeconomic transportation simulator
- case studies and implementation strategies
- Environmental and other impacts
Unit 3 Characteristics of Air Transportation, structure and organization, challenges and
- the issues
- Airport Master Plan
- Characteristics of the aircraft
- Airport Requirements
- site selection
- layout plan and financial plan
- Forecasting air travel demand
- Air freight demand
Unit 4 Geometric Design of runway, taxiway, aprons, Design of Passenger Terminal,
- analysis of flow through terminals
- Design of air cargo facilities
- Airfield pavement and drainage design
Unit 5 Environment impact of Airports. Air traffic control lighting and signing, Airport
- capacity and configuration
- parking configurations and apron facilities Tutorials: 1
- Problems based on forecasting of passenger and freight traffic for railways and airways. 2
- Problems based on costing and pricing strategy in railways as well as in airways. 3
- Planning and design of railway and airway network
- routes and schedules for the actual or hypothetical regional area development. 4
- Planning and design of infrastructures required for railways and air ports
- Field Visit: 1
- Visit to the Railway station
- yards and management office. 2
- Visit to the Airport terminal building
- structures of terminal area and management office
- Airport Planning & Design
- Nemchand Bros.
- Horenjeff Robert
- The planning & Design of Airports
- McGraw Hill Book Co. 3
- Railway Engineering
- Dhanpat Rai & Sons
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