Ce 5 - Highway and Railroad Engineering

Analysis,

4th Ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1991

Course Name HIGHWAY AND RAILROAD ENGINEERING

Presents the methods and underlying principles for the design and control of
the elements of road and railroad infrastructure. Students also become familiar
Course
with transportation system terminology, flow analysis, driver, vehicle and road
Description
characteristics, and aspects of road geometrics, road construction, drainage,
pavements and maintenance.
Number of Units
for Lecture and 3 lecture units
Laboratory
Number of
Contact Hours 3 hours lecture per week
per Week
Prerequisites Fundamentals of Surveying
Co-requisites None
Program
Outcome/s
a-E, c-E, e-E, g-E
Addressed by
the Course
At the end of the course, the students must be able to:
1. Define the basic concepts of highway and railroad transportation and
present how to apply them in civil engineering practice
2. Recognize the concepts associated with the geometric and structural
Course design of highway and railway engineering systems.
Outcomes 3. Explain the basic service requirements of highway and detail the
procedure to conduct level of service analysis.
4. Develop basic traffic stream parameters and models, traffic flow
models, and apply the queuing theory
1. Importance of transportation, different modes of transportation,

characteristics of road transport, scope of highway and traffic
engineering
2. Highway development and planning: Importance, classification of
roads, road patterns, planning surveys; highway alignment and surveys
Course Outline 3. Design criteria for highways and railways
4. Geometric design for highways and railways, including cross sections,
horizontal and vertical alignments, super-elevation and earthworks.
5. Structural design of railways and pavements
6. Failures, maintenance and rehabilitation of transportation
infrastructure.
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7. Traffic Engineering: Traffic characteristics - Traffic studies-speed,
volume, speed and delay, origin-destination, parking and accident
studies; capacity of urban roads and highways; traffic operations
regulation and control; design of intersections- at grade and grade
separated
8. Traffic flow and analysis of roads including queuing analysis and level
of service assessment.
9. Pavement Materials and Design: Specifications and tests on pavement
materials, pavement design factors, design of flexible and rigid
pavements as per IRC
Laboratory
None
Equipment
1. Mannering Fred, Washburn Scott,Kilaresky Walter. 2004. Principles of
Highway Engineering & TrafficAnalysis. Muze Inc.
2. Wright, Paul H. 2003. Highway Engineering.Wiley & Sons.
3. Garber, Nicholas; &Hoel, Lester. 2001.Highway and Traffic Engineering.
Brookes/Cole Publishing.
4. Fajardo, Max Jr. B., Elements of Roads and Highways, Second Edition,
Reference Books
5138 Merchandising Publisher, Manila,1998.
5. Department of Public Works and Highways.1995. Standard Specification
for Public Works and Highways(Volume II – Standard Specification for
Highways, Bridges and Airports), DPWH, Office of the Secretary, Bonifacio
Drive, Port Area, Manila
6. Hay, W. W. 1982. Railroad Engineering, 2nd Edition. Wiley.
7. Armstrong J. H. 2008. The Railroad: What It Is, What It Does, 5th Edition.
Course Name: BUILDING SYSTEMS DESIGN

Building construction is examined from the standpoints of life safety (including
fire safety and zoning constraints on site planning); architectural and building
service systems (plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, fire
protection); materials, sustainability, and life-cycle analysis; accessibility;
technical documentation and outline specifications; building enclosure
systems; and interior finish systems.
The lecture course will focus on developing knowledge of building systems,
including architectural design building materials and construction techniques,
and will foster the skills required to adopt a building systems approach
Course compliant to the National Building Code and its referral codes. The students’
Description developed knowledge of building systems will also include understanding of
different types and applications of building materials and diverse construction
techniques. Sustainability principles’ impact on the property lifecycle, and how
these will integrate and apply to skills and knowledge to industry based case
studies will also be examined. The course will include at least one site visit to
an operating building in the locality.
The laboratory class will focus on the tools and techniques to create a
computer generated building model, and applied tools for working with
computer model exploring output and simulation. Students will develop
techniques looking at both realistic and schematic representation, and the
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Analysis,

4th Ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1991

Course Name HIGHWAY AND RAILROAD ENGINEERING

1. Importance of transportation, different modes of transportation,

PSG for BSCE Page 41 of 120

Course Name: BUILDING SYSTEMS DESIGN

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