Transportation Engineering-II

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TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING – II
Course Code: 13CE1128 L T P C

4 0 0 3
Course Educational Objectives:
To develop
✤ Basic knowledge on design of flexible pavements and rigid
pavements.
✤ Procedural Skills on highway construction, maintenance.
✤ Analytical skills of solving economic analysis problems on highway
projects.
✤ Basic Knowledge on various components of railway engineering.
✤ Basic Knowledge on various components of airport engineering like
runway, taxiway, Apron, control tower etc.
✤ Basic knowledge on docks & harbors.
Course Outcome:
The student will be able to
✤ Solve problems on pavement design by IRC method, AASHTO
method for flexible pavements and rigid pavements by IRC method.
✤ Understand the construction and maintenance procedure of
highways.
✤ Understand various highway costs and highway user benefits for a
project.
✤ Solve problems on economic analysis on highway projects.
✤ Know various components of railway engineering.
✤ Solve problems on turnout design.
✤ Solve problems on runway length correction & its orientation.
✤ Understand various components of docks and harbour.
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UNIT-I (12 Lectures)

PAVEMENT DESIGN –I:
Pavement Design – CBR method of flexible pavement design – IRC
method of flexible pavement design, AASHO method of flexible pavement
design.
PAVEMENT DESIGN–II:
IRC method of rigid pavement design – Importance of joints in rigid
pavements – Types of joints – Use of tie bars and dowel bars.
UNIT-II (12 Lectures)
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND DRAINAGE:
Highway construction – Construction of earth roads – Gravel roads –
WBM roads – Bituminous roads – Cement concrete roads – Reinforced
concrete pavements – Construction of joints in cement concrete pavements.
Highway Maintenance – Failures of flexible and rigid pavements and their
maintenance- Strengthening of existing pavements. Highway drainage –
importance of highway drainage – Surface, sub surface drainage.
UNIT-III (12 Lectures)
HIGHWAY ECONOMICS & FINANCE:
Highway user benefits – Highway cost – Economic analysis – Highway
finance.
UNIT-IV (12 Lectures)
RAILWAY ENGINEERING-I :
Permanent way components – Cross Section of Permanent Way –
Functions of various Components like Rails, Sleepers and Ballast –Rail
Fastenings – Creep of Rails- Theories related to creep – Adzing of
Sleepers- Sleeper density.
RAILWAY ENGINEERING- II:
Rail joints, welding of rails. Turnouts – Left hand turnout – Track –
junctions – Points and crossings – Tracks drainage – Railway stations
and yards – Signaling.
UNIT-V (14 Lectures)
AIRPORT ENGINEERING:
Factors affecting selection of site for Airport and Layout Design –
Computation of Runway length – Correction for Runway Length –
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Orientation of Runway – Wind Rose Diagram – Runway Lighting system

– Taxiways, Apron, Control tower terminal building.
DOCKS & HARBOURS:
Types – layout and planning principles – Break waters – Docks –
Wharves and Quays – Transit sheds – Ware houses – Navigational Aids.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. S.K.Khanna & C.E.G.Justo, “Highway Engineering”,
7th Edition, Nemchand & Bros., 2000.
2. S.P.chadula, “Railway Engineering–A text book of
Transportation Engineering”, S.Chand & Co. Ltd. 2001.
3. L.R.Kadiyali and Lal, “Principles & Practices of Highway
Engineering”, 4th Edition, Khanna Publications, 2004.
4. S.K.Khanna and M.G.Arora, “Airport Planning and Design”,
6th Edition, Nemchand & Bros., 1999.
5. Rangwala S.C & K.S. “Railway Engineering”, 14th Edition,
Charotar Publications, 2005.
6. Saxena S.C and Arora S.P, “Railway Engineering”, 6th Edition,
Dhanapat Rai Publications, 2004.
7. Seetharaman, “Dock & Harbour Engineering”, 1st Edition,
Umesh Publications, 2008.
REFERENCES:
1. S.P.Bindra , “Highway Engineering”, Dhanpat Rai & Sons.
2. Dr.L.R.Kadyali, “Traffic Engineering & Transportation
Planning”, 6th Edition, Khanna Publications, 1997.
3. Virendhra Kumar & Statish Chandhra, “Air Transportation
Planning & Design”, Gal Gotia Publishers, 1999.
4. Robert M. Horonjeff, “Planning and Design of Airports”,
Mc Graw Hill Publications, 2008.
5. J. S. Mundrey, “Railway Track Engineering”, 4th Edition,
Mc Graw Hill Publications, 2010.
6. Indian Road Congress, Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways, and Special Publications
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Course Code: 13CE1128 L T P C

G V P College of Engineering (Autonomous) 2013

UNIT-I (12 Lectures)

Orientation of Runway – Wind Rose Diagram – Runway Lighting system

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