Transportation Engineering: Course Instructor

Transportation Engineering
CE-308
Course Instructor
Engr. Nawaz Ali

Office : TITE
Ph : +9230289455887
Recommended Books
• “Highway Engineering” 2nd Edition

by “Clarkson H. Oglesby & Laurence I. Hewes”
• “Principles of Highway Engineering & Traffic

Analysis
by “Fred L. Mannering & Walter P. Kilareski”
Course Contents
Introduction
• Highway Planning.
• An Approach to Urban Highway Planning.
• Location Survey in Rural & Urban Areas.
• Location Controls.
• Elements of a Typical Cross-Section of Road.
• Types of Cross-Section.
• Classification of Highways.
• Highway Materials, Types & Characteristics, Specification &
tests.
• Highway Drainage.
Course Contents
Geometric Design
• Sight Distance Requirements.

• Vertical Curves.
• Grade Line.
• Horizontal Curves.
• Super Elevation.
• Transition Curve
• Curve Widening.
Course Contents
Traffic Engineering
• Design Speed.
• Traffic Estimates.
• Traffic Lane Capacity.
• Traffic Survey.
• Road Signs & Signals.
• Channelization
• Design of Intersections at Grade & Grade Separated Intersections.
• Drivers Characteristics.
• Traffic Control Devices.
• Parking and Accident Studies.
• Traffic Management.
• Highway Safety.
Course Contents
Pavement Design:
• Types of pavements.
• Wheel loads.
• Equivalent single axle load, Repetition and impact
factors.
• Load distribution characteristics;
• Design of flexible and rigid pavements, Highway
drainage, Pavement failures,
• Pavement evaluation; Construction, Maintenance
and rehabilitation.
Highway Planning
Transportation
• Life in communities has changed
over the years.
• One of those changes is in
transportation.
• Transportation is a way of moving
people or things from one place to
another.
Modes of Transportation
• Land
• Water
• Air
Modes of Transportation
Land Water Air
• Covered • Canoe • Hot Air
Wagon • Steamboat Balloon
• Train • Ferry • Plane
• Subway • Passenger • Helicopter
• Bicycle Ship • Rocket
• Motorcycle • Submarine • Space
• Car Shuttle
• Bus
Elements of Transportation
There are three main elements of

automobile transportation:
• The road users (Drivers and

pedestrians)
• The vehicle
• The road way and geometric design
Elements of Transportation
• The three basic elements of transportation
has the following accident distribution
percentages.
Accident Distribution Percentages
5% 15%
Vehicle
Road Way
Driver
80%
Highway Planning
(One Definition)
Activities that:
1. Collect information on performance
2. Identify existing and forecast future
system performance levels
3. Identify solutions

Focus: meet existing and forecast
travel demand
Highway Planning
• Highway transportation system plays
an important role in the life of the
community
• The transportation problem touches
on almost every phase of modern life
i.e.
– Industry
– Agriculture
– Goods Movement
Highway Planning
• Highway planners must continually be
aware of the heavy responsibilities they
bear.
• Thus in preparing schemes for a single
highway or complicated highway
network, care must always be taken to
ensure that:
– Project is not treated in isolation
– It must be treated as an integral part of
whole Transportation System
Highway Planning
• Entire planning process should be

regarded as a definite step in the
advancement of environmental
progress and not just as a concrete
attempt to relieve congested traffic
conditions.
Highway Planning
• Entire planning process should be

regarded as a definite step in the
advancement of environmental
progress and not just as a concrete
attempt to relieve congested traffic
conditions.
Where does planning fit in?
Planning
Project Development
Design
Construction
Form of Highway Planning
• Highway planning must always be
considered in the light of long-term
effects.
• It is important because of:
– Influence of highway planning on
community
– Demands placed by community
• Increasing population demands
proper highway planning. Growth rate
of traffic is very high as compared to
development in highway system.
• As population is concentrated in
urban areas, particularly heavy traffic
increases in number and usage of
vehicles is expected to be more in
these areas.
• Highway planners will have to give
special consideration to the role of the
vehicles in the urban areas.
• Following factors must be considered:
– Increase in population
– Growth of number of vehicles
– Increase in use of vehicles
– Density of growth in different areas
– Existing state of highway systems
Transportation Planning
• The process by which new transportation
facilities (and improvements to the old
facilities) are systematically designed,
adequately tested, and their future
construction is properly programmed.
• Comprehensive transportation planning
considers all modes (mass transit,
automobile, air, rail, etc.) of transportation
and treats them all as a single system.
8.Urban Needs
1.Scope and Purpose
2.Economics 9.Government Aid
Highway Studies Report

10.Maintenance
3.Highway Use
11.Administration
4.Classification of
Highway System 12.Programming
and Priorities
5.Design Standards
13.Financial needs
6.Motorway System
Needs 14.Sources of
7.Classified and Un- Revenue
classified Road Needs 15.Recommendation
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Transportation Engineering

Engr. Nawaz Ali

• “Highway Engineering” 2nd Edition

• “Principles of Highway Engineering & Traffic

• Sight Distance Requirements.

There are three main elements of

• The road users (Drivers and

• Entire planning process should be

• Entire planning process should be

Highway Studies Report

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