Infrastructure and Transportation Planning
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The official GTU curriculum for Infrastructure and Transportation Planning (subject code 3714803) as prescribed for TACP · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 60 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 (3714803)Unit 1 Role of Infrastructure in Development
- Elements of Infrastructure (physical
- utilities and services)
- Basic definitions
- significance and importance
- Data required for provision and planning of urban networks and services
- Resource analysis
- provision of infrastructure, and land requirements
- Principles of resource distribution in space
- hierarchical distribution of facilities
- Access to facilities
- provision and location criteria
- Norms and standards, etc
Unit 2 Planning and Management of Water, Sanitation and Storm Water Water
- – sources of water
- treatment and storage
- transportation and distribution
- distribution losses
- water harvesting
- recycling and reuse
- norms and standards of provision
- institutional arrangements
- planning provisions and management issues
- Sanitation – points of generation
- norms and standards
- grey water disposal
- Storm water – rainfall data interpretation
- points of water stagnation
- system of natural drains
- surface topography and soil characteristics
- ground water replenishment
- storm water collection and disposal
Unit 3 Planning and Management of Municipal Wastes, Power and Fire
- Municipal and other wastes – generation
- recycling and reuse
- wealth from waste
- norms and standards
- institutional arrangements
- planning provisions and management issues
- Power – Sources of power procurement
- distribution networks
- demand assessment
- Fire – History of fire hazards
- vulnerable locations
- methods of fire fighting
Unit 4 City Development and Transport Infrastructure Planning,
- Management and Design Role of transport
- types of transport systems
- evolution of transport modes
- transport problems and mobility issues
- Urban form and Transport patterns
- land use – transport cycle
- concept of accessibility
- capacity and geometric design elements of roads and intersections
- Basic principles of Transport infrastructure design
- Traffic and transportation surveys and studies
- traffic and travel characteristics
- Urban transport planning process – stages
- study area
- data base
- concept of trip generation Transport
- environment and safety issues
- principles and approaches of traffic management
- transport system management
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