JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre Requisites

Transportation Engineering

Course Objectives

To expose the students to Railway planning, design, construction and

maintenance and planning and design principles of Airports

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the importance of railway and airport infrastructure planning and design.
• Identify the factors governing design of railway and airport infrastructures.
• Designing of Runway and Taxiway

UNIT - I

Railway Planning, Alignment and surveys:--Railway network planning –Factors controlling railway track alignment -Engineering Surveys for Railway track alignment –EIA for Railway Projects.

UNIT - II

Railway track and its components –Specifications for tracks on Indian Railways, Geometric design of Railway tracks- Introduction, Gradient, Horizontal curves super elevation, widening of gauges on curves, Transition Curves summit, and Valley Curves.

UNIT - III

Railway tracks construction –Points and crossing, signaling, Interlocking and Track circuiting. High speed tracks. Railway track maintenance:-Conventional and mechanized methods Track standards and Rehabilitation, Track Renewals.

UNIT - IV

Airport Planning and Design:- Airport site selection, Airport layout. Runway design –Wind rose Diagrams, Runway geometric design elements , Runway design, runway drainage.

UNIT - V

Taxiway design:-Components of Airport –Apron, Terminal Building –Passenger facilities, Hangars, Air traffic control –Primary functions of ATC and Air traffic control network. Runway safety –accidents due to wet runways- Modernization of Airport terminal.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Transportation Engineering Vol-II by C Venkataramaiah University Press.
• 2. Highway Railway Airport and Harbour Engineering by K.P. Subramanian Scitech Publications.
• 3. Railway Engineering by M.M. Agarwal, Prabha & Co.
• 4. Air Transportation Planning and Design Virendhra kumar and Satish Chandra Gal Gotia publishers
• 5. Airport planning and Desing Sk khanna and MG Arora Chand & bros R16 B.TECH CIVIL ENGG.