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Highways and Transportation Engineering

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Transportation planning: Introduction to transportation planning. Stages of the urban and regional transportation plans, Data collection process required for the transportation plans, Stages of the travel demand forecasting process using the traditional sequential approach. Traffic Engineering: introduction to traffic engineering, traffic volume studies, Traffic flow parameters and characteristics, level of service analysis. Highway Engineering: classification of roads, basic principles of highways design, cross section elements, vehicles and drivers’ characteristics.
  • Arabic Description

    Transportation planning: Introduction to transportation planning. Stages of the urban and regional transportation plans, Data collection process required for the transportation plans, Stages of the travel demand forecasting process using the traditional sequential approach. Traffic Engineering: introduction to traffic engineering, traffic volume studies, Traffic flow parameters and characteristics, level of service analysis. Highway Engineering: classification of roads, basic principles of highways design, cross section elements, vehicles and drivers’ characteristics.
  • Department
    Public Works
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Student Activities (30 = tr.Industry 1% , tr.Project 3% , tr.Self_learning 5% , tr.Seminar 21% ) + Exam Grade (50)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • - Traffic Engineering Handbook, Institute of Transportation Engineers, (ITE-2016), 7th. Edition, Wiley.