JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

This course will focus on introducing students to the correlational view on

geometrics and land use. The sensitivity of transport systems to road engineering are also dealt

Course outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able to

• 1. Describe the functions and importance of geometric audit
• 2. Correlate the geometrics with land use
• 3. Relate the sensitivity of transport systems to road engineering.
• 4. Understand the land use and traffic sensitivity to infrastructure policies.
• 5. Understand the applications of Road engineering

UNIT - I

Highway Geometric audit: Audit process, leads, assumptions on problems defining, audit policies, Highway geometrics, audit interface to different types of roads. Evaluation of audit results.

UNIT - II

Traffic correlation view on geometrics and land use: Planning policies on geometrics and Land use. Hierarchical connectivities and land use regulations. Traffic- infrastructure – land use relational correlations. Level of service impact due to mixed traffic on regulated geometrics. Role of traffic management to non-geometric realities of road. Road engineering policies in reference to land use and traffic mobility.

UNIT - III

Transport system sensitivity to road engineering: Transport systems like BRTS, MRTS, Transit systems, IPT and cars- its sensitivity in traffic mobility. Road geometrics of static sensitivity to dynamic characteristics of transportation systems. Road engineering policies in reference to transportation systems.

UNIT - VI

Integrated landuse and infrastructure – Geometric sensitivity, landuse sensitivity and traffic sensitivity to infrastructure policy, differentials among landuse and road engineering. Changes of policies over a time and change of land use at integration level. Road engineering measure on reduction of traffic congestion.

UNIT - V

Applications of Road engineering – Sensitivity of road development plans across the landuse of CBD, high intensity zones and urban sprawl areas. Geometric stability in reference to safety among different hierarchical roads. Regional, urban and rural roads – leads on road development plans.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering, Richardo G Sigua
• 2. Handbook of Road Safety measures, second Edition, Rune Elvik, Alena Hoye, Truls Vaa, Michael Sorenson
• 3. Road Safety by NCHRP
• 4. Metropolitan transportation planning – John W. Dickey, Tata Mc Graw Hill, New Delhi,1975. R19 M.TECH HIGHWAY ENGG. M.TECH.- I YEAR- I SEMESTER HIGHWAY ENGINEERING