B.Tech Civil Engineering

 

CE 304        TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING - I           3-0-0-6

 

 

Syllabus: Introduction to transportation engineering; Classification of roads; Geometric design of highways: cross sectional elements, sight distance and its application, super elevation, horizontal alignment, vertical alignment; Pavement types and components of a pavement structure; Role, design and characterization of different pavement materials including: subgrade soil, aggregates, asphalt, modified asphalt, emulsion, cutback, bituminous mix; Analysis of pavement structures and design considerations;  Design of flexible pavements, Design of rigid pavements; Introduction to Superpave method of pavement material characterization

 

Texts:

  1. P. Chakroborty and A. Das, Principles of Transportation Engineering, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall India, 2017.
  2. C.J. Khisty and B.K. Lall, Transportation Engineering: An Introduction, 3rd Edition, Pearson, 2003.
  3. S.K. Khanna, C.E.G. Justo and A. Veeraragavan, Highway Engineering, 10th Edition, Nem Chand & Bros, 2017.

 

References

  1. F.L. Mannering, W.P. Kilareski, and S.S. Washburn, Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
  2. J.H. Banks, Introduction to Transportation Engineering, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002.
  3. N.A. Harold, Highway Materials, Soil and Concrete, Prentice Hall, 2004
  4. Y. H. Huang, Pavement Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, India, 2008
  5. R. B. Mallick and T. El-Korchi, Pavement Engineering: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, 2017.
  6. Relevant Codes from Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Asphalt Institute Manuals (AI).