Transportation Engineering detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (DCE), C18 curriculum has been taken from the TSSBTET official website and presented for the diploma students. For Course Code, Course Name, Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Internal Marks, Max Marks, Total Marks, Min Marks and other information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
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Prerequisites:
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Course Outcome:
Upon completion of the course, the student shall be able to
- Classify roads as per Indian Road Congress and describe the principles of highway alignment.
- Identify the highway geometric elements.
- Examine the functions of components of highway and permanent way of Railways.
- Realize the significance of road safety by incorporating the concepts of traffic engineering.
- Differentiate between types of pavements, their construction and design principles.
Unit 1: Introduction To Transportation Engineering, Highway Alignment and Surveys:
- Importance of transportation engineering -Different modes of transportation -Characteristics of Road Transport.
- Highway development in India: Jayakar committee Recommendations – Functions of I.R.C. – Classification of roads as per I.R.C – Twenty year Road plans, their targets and achievements.
- Alignment – Factors influencing alignment of road in plain and hilly areas – Highway surveys – Reconnaissance, preliminary and final location surveys.
Unit 2: Highway Geometries
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Unit 3: Traffic Engineering
- Traffic studies and its importance.
- Road intersections – grade intersections-Types-Traffic islands -Channelizing islands -Round about – Interchange – Fly over – Diamond Intersections – Clover Leaf junction.
- Pavement marking and Kerb markings.
- Traffic signs – Informatory signs – Mandatory signs – Cautionary signs
Unit 4: Highway Construction and Maintenance
- Purpose of road drainage – Surface and sub-surface drainage – Typical cross section of highway in cutting and embankment.
- Water bound macadam roads – Materials used – Machinery used in the construction -Construction procedure – Maintenance of W.B.M road.
- Bitumen roads-Different types – Surface dressing -interface treatments-seal coat, tack coat, prime coat, premix – Full grout and semi-grout – methods – Construction procedure.
- Cement concrete roads-Longitudinal joints-Transverse joints -Construction joints -Construction of cement concrete roads – Machinery used for construction.
Unit 5: Principles of Pavement Design:
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Unit 6: Introduction To Permanent Way in Railways
- Importance of Railways – Gauge – Types of gauges.
- Structure of permanent way-Different types of rails- requirements of a good rail.
- Rail joints – Types of joints – Requirements of good rail joint – Fixtures and fastenings of rails – coning of wheels.
- Sleepers – Functions –Types of sleepers-characteristics of a good sleeper – Spacing of sleepers – Sleeper density.
- Ballast – Definition – Function – Characteristics of good ballast.
- General description and sketches for turnout – General layout of a simple left hand and right hand turnout and different crossings.
Reference Books:
- Highway Engineering – S.K.Khanna & C.E.G.Justo
- Principles of Transportation Engineering – Chakraborty
- Principles & practices of Highway Engineering – L.R.Kadiyali
- Introduction to Transportation Engineering – J.H.Banks
- Text book of Highway & Traffic Engineering – Subhash C Saxena
- Railway Engineering – Satish Chandra and M.M Agarwal
Suggested E-learning references
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Course Outcome:
Upon completion of the course, the student shall be able to
Unit 1:
- State the importance and characteristics of transportation engineering.
- List the different modes of transportation.
- State the Jayakar committee Recommendation for Road development in India.
- State the importance and functions of I.R.C
- State the classification of roads as per I.R.C
- State the highlights of first, second and third twenty-year Road development plans.
- Define the term alignment of road.
- State the factors influencing selection of alignment for a road in plain and hilly areas.
- Explain various engineering surveys conducted to fix the alignment of a road.
Unit 2:
- Sketch the Highway cross-section in embankment and cutting and label its elements.
- Define the terms: width of pavement, shoulder, formation width, right of way, camber, gradient, super elevation, sight distance, stopping sight distance and over taking sight distance.
- Calculate the Stopping sight distance (calculation of sight distances at slopes not required)
- State the different types of gradients and their recommended values.
- State the necessity of providing super elevation and write the formula.
- Solve simple problems on super elevation.
- State the necessity of curves in highways.
- State the different types of horizontal and vertical curves adopted in road
Unit 3:
- List the various traffic surveys.
- State the importance of each traffic survey.
- Explain with neat sketches traffic islands and Interchanges.
- State the functions and types of pavement markings with sketches.
- State the types of traffic signs and their purpose and give sketches.
Unit 4:
- State the necessity of road drainage.
- Explain the methods of providing surface and sub-surface drainage.
- State the materials used in construction of different types of roads
- State the equipment/machinery used in construction of different roads.
- Explain the methods of construction of different types of roads.
- Explain the maintenance of WBM roads.
- Explain the different types of joints used in C.C roads with sketches.
- State the need for joints in C.C roads.
Unit 5:
- . State the types of pavement.
- . Distinguish between flexible pavement and rigid pavement.
- . State the advantages of White topping roads over Black toping roads (Bituminous roads).
- . Sketch the Cross section of a pavement structure.
- . State the functions of components of a pavement.
- . State the factors affecting pavement design.
- . List the methods for design of flexible pavements and rigid pavements.
- Explain the California Bearing Ratio (CBR) test.
- Explain the design principle of flexible pavement by California Bearing Ratio (CBR) method.
Unit 6:
- State the advantages of Railways.
- Define gauge and state the classification of gauges.
- State the component parts of a permanent way and functions of each component.
- State the requirements of good rail, rail joint, sleeper and ballast.
- State the different types of rails, joints, rail fittings, sleepers, ballast, used in Indian Railways with sketches.
- Describe the coning of wheels.
- Describe different types of turnouts and crossings with sketches.
Suggested Student Activities
- Prepare a comparative chart showing various types of roads such as WBM, Bituminous roads, Concrete roads.
- Visit a highway construction site, identify various types of soils, the test procedures as per relevant IS codes and inference based on the test results.
- Draw the cross-sectional details of Village roads, MDR, SH, NH using AUTO CAD and prepare a chart.
- Collect the parameters of road intersection in the locality and prepare a model.
- Prepare a model showing the cross-sectional details of various types of roads such as bituminous and concrete roads.
- Prepare a chart showing the various road signs used by collecting the information from nearby RTO and prepare a report.
- Collect information regarding various types of railway gauges used in India and other countries, prepare a chart and present it.
- Collect videos showing the various forces acting on a railway track and present in the class.
- Collect photographs and videos of crossings and prepare a presentation on it.
- Collect videos related to track laying procedure and give seminar in the class.
- Give a presentation on production of railway sleepers.
- Collect different IRC codes pertaining to highway geometric design and prepare a chart.
- Prepare a model of a typical railway track.
- Collect the information regarding various railway divisions in India and their functions.
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