Road and traffic engineering 1
Next offered in 1995
R T Underwood
4 points * 39 lecture hours * Second semester * Caulfield
Road planning: principles and procedures, land-use transport interaction, relationship with other modes of transport, road classification and hierarchy. Traffic studies and surveys: types, methods, statistical applications, before-and-after studies, estimation of future traffic. Road capacity: traffic characteristics, traffic carrying capacity, economic capacity, environmental capacity, capacity of rural and urban roads and intersections. Road design: rural and urban, undivided and divided, procedures and practices, standards, economic, environmental and safety considerations, intersections, drainage, low-cost improvements, provision for public transport, computer applications. Traffic management: signing and delineation, intersection treatments, coordinated signals, pedestrians, bicycles, street lighting, parking, provision for public transport, truck management in urban areas, treatment of hazardous locations, application to rural and urban arterials, local traffic management. Freeways: aspects of concern to local government.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 20% * Examinations (3 hours): 80%
Prescribed texts
Underwood R T Road engineering practice Macmillan, 1994
Recommended texts
Underwood R T The geometric design of roads Macmillan, 1991