JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

The objectives of the course is to define

• 1. The importance of role of culverts and islands for improved safety
• 2. Traffic violations and its sensitivity is also dealt
• 3. Land use policies and its impact on road safety is dealt.

Course Outcomes

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

• 1. Role of supportive infrastructure and its importance
• 2. The concepts of geometric compatibility
• 3. The impact of vehicle mobility on road safety
• 4. The various LU policies and their importance
• 5. Risk mobility on road

UNIT - I

Role of Culverts & Storm water Drains: - Supportive Infrastructure role, access patterns to mobilize water into roads, catchment area computations along these roads. Flood water assessment to design storm water draining. Location analysis on culverts per Km of road.

UNIT - II

Role of islands and its safety: - Threat to common area, dynamics at intersection, geometric compatibility units, vehicular speeds, island simulated view of vehicles. Size, shape and orientation of islands and its compatibility to mobility.

UNIT - III

Traffic violations and its sensitivity on road safety: - Traffic characteristic impact on vehicle mobility, impact over speed, violation of lane discipline on safety. Driver emotion, perception on road safety, Vehicle- land use – driver sensitivity to road safety.

UNIT - IV

Land use polices & violation and its impact on road safety: - Land use forms and orientation. Activity potentiality and land use geometric speed, policy sensitivity and its violation in urban areas. Land use impact on supportive infrastructure and road right of way.

UNIT - V

Application of risk mobility on road: - Computation of risk generation, risk distribution, risk convergence, way out to release risk into control devices, monitoring, ITS interface, geometric and land use controls to mitigate risk.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning – L.R. Kadiyali, Khanna Publishers.
• 2. Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering - C.S.Papacostas, Prentice Hall India.
• 3. Coppola DP, 2007 Introduction to International Disaster Management, Elesevier Science (B/4) London.
• 4. Manual on Natural Disaster Management in India, MC Gupta NIDM, New Delhi. R19 M.TECH HIGHWAY ENGG. M.TECH.- I YEAR- II SEMESTER HIGHWAY ENGINEERING