Vehicle Transport Management detailed Syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU AUTO 6th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Automobile Engineering 6th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Open Elective-A) subjects refer to Open Elective-A Scheme. The detail syllabus for vehicle transport management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Introduction: Historical background, the growth of a network, trams, trolley buses, buses, private cars, subsidies. Motor vehicle act 1988. The Infrastructure: Road, Highway network, traffic control, Bus priorities, pedestrianization, out town shopping centers, Bus-stops, shelters, Bus stations-drive through type, head on type, facilities for passengers, bus garages, requirement, layout of premises, size, function, , location, design, equipment, use of machinery, garage organization, large scale overhaul conveyance of staff, requirement of facilities at depot., legal provisions for depot. Layouts. Maintenance: Preventive, breakdown, overhauling-major, minor, repair schedules & workshop, facilities, documentation, analysis & corrective maintenance schedules.
Module 2
Organization and Management: Forms of ownership, municipal undertaking, company undertaking, traffic, secretarial and engineering department, management, principle of transport,-internal organization-centralized control, de-centralized control, staff administration: industrial relation, administration, recruitment and training, drivers and conductors duties, training of drivers and conductors, factors affecting punctuality, welfare, health and safety. Route planning: Source of traffic, town planning, turning points, stopping places, shelters, survey of route, preliminary schedule test runs, elimination of hazards, factors affecting frequency, direction of traffic flow, community of interest, estimating, traffic volume, probable weekday travelers, passengers during various periods of the day, estimated number of passengers, estimated traffic, possibility of single verses double deck and frequency.
Module 3
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Module 4
Operating cost and types of vehicles: Classification of costs, average speed, running costs, supplementary costs, depreciation obsolescence, life of vehicles, sinking fund, factor affecting cost per vehicles mile incidence of wages and overheads, 100 seats miles basis, average seating capacity, vehicles size and spread over, types of vehicle economic considerations authorization of trolley, bus services, statuary for hire car. Public relations divisions: Dissemination of information, maintaining goodwill- handling complaints, traffic advisory committees- local contractors co-operation with the press news and articles- facilities for visitors-forms of publicity-importance of quality-inter departmental liaison advertisements, sings, notice and
directions general appearance of premises, specialized publicity.
Module 5
Prevention of accidents: Emphasis of safe driving, annual awards, bonus encouragement, vehicle design, platform layout, location of stops, scheduled speed, route hazards, records, elimination of accident prone drivers.
Timing, Bus working and Schedules: Time table layout, uses of flat graph method of presentation, preparation of vehicle and crew schedule preparation of the duty roster, co-operation with employers, use of the vehicle running numbering determination of vehicle efficiency checking efficiency of crew, duty arrangements.
Vehicle design: Buses & coaches, types & capacities, basic features, entrances & exits, comfort & capacity, steps & staircases, miscellaneous arrangements & fitments, articulated buses, standardization. The future: a projection from the past, future demand, environmental and social issues, the energy situation, new technology, hybrid ,battery/trolley bus, other types of hybrid, lead acid battery bus, advanced battery bus.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
Text Books:
- Bus operation L. D. Kitchen Iliffe&Sons , London . 1992
- Bus & coach operation Rex W. Faulks Butterworth London. 1987
Reference Books:
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For the detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE (AUTO) 6th Sem, visit Automobile Engineering 6th Sem Subjects.
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