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Course overview
• Credits: 3-0-0-3
• Lectures: Monday, Thursday; 09:30 – 10:50
• Weights
– Minor(s): 30%
– Major: 35%
– Quizzes + Assignments (if any): 35%
• Quizzes: Average of (best of (𝑛 − 1 ) quizzes); 𝑛 number of
unannounced quizzes held on appropriate platform
General Introduction • Attendance

• Effort required beyond classes

CVL 261: Introduction to Transportation Engineering – Minimum: 3 hrs/week

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Instruction mode Course content

1) Introduction
• Instruction mode 2) Road user and vehicle characteristics
– Slides 3) Material characteristics– subgrade and aggregates
4) Material characteristics – bitumen and mixes
– Whiteboard 5) Pavement analysis basics
• No prior sharing of slides 6) Flexible and rigid pavement design methods
7) Sight distances
• Individual note taking 8) Horizontal alignment
9) Vertical alignment
– Required! 10) Traffic flow characteristics
– Recommended 11) Stream models and queuing theory
12) Introduction to Transportation Planning
13) Trip Generation
14) Trip Distribution
15) Mode split/choice
16) Route/Trip Assignment
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Outline Course outline

• Module 1 • Module 1
– General introduction – Introduction
• Module 2 – Fundamentals of transportation systems
– Pavement – Road and user characteristics
• Module 3 • Module 2
– Traffic – Material characterization – Subgrade, Aggregates,
Bitumen and mixtures
• Module 4
– Pavement design basics – stress analysis
– Planning
– Flexible and rigid pavement design methods

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Course outline Course outline

• Module 3 • Module 4
– Road user and vehicle characteristics – Demand and supply
– Geometric design – Trip Generation
• Horizontal and vertical alignment – Trip distribution
– Traffic flow characteristics – Mode choice
– Design of traffic facilities – Network assignment

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Learning objectives Reading material

• To be able to
– Characterize materials – aggregates, bitumen and
mixes
– Analyze and design pavement systems
– Identify sight distances
– Determine the horizontal/ vertical geometry
requirements for a or existing road or proposed
road
– Identify micro and macroscopic characteristics of
traffic flow
– Fit traffic flow models to given data
– Identify equilibrium (demand-supply) points for
transportation systems
– Do a 4-step travel demand
• Text
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– Mannering, F.L., Kilareski, W.P., and Washburn, S.S.
(2009) Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic
Analysis, 4th edition, John Wiley.
– Garber, N.J., and Hoel, L.A. (2009) Principles of Traffic
and Highway Engineering, 4th edition, Cengage learning.
M2 • Wiki Book:
– Levinson, D., Liu, H., Garrison, W., Danczyk, A., Corbett,
M., Fundamentals of Transportation
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Transpor
tation
M3
• Your notes!!
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Transportation systems Transportation systems

Water Air Land

Water Air Land

Inland Air Rail Pipeline

Sea Road Telecommunications

Passenger Goods/Freight/Cargo Intermodal

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Transportation systems Definitions

• Planning • Transportation Engineering (ITE, 1987):
– The application of technological and scientific
– Longer life, ease with construction & maintenance principles to the planning and design, operation and
maintenance of facilities for any mode of
• Control transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid,
– Rules and regulation, Users and manufacturers convenient, economical, and environmentally
compatible movement of people and goods
• Congestion • Transportation System (Papacostas, 2001):
• Safety – A transportation system may be defined as consisting
of fixed facilities, the flow entities, and the control
– National, general public system that permit people and goods to overcome the
friction of geographic space efficiently in order to
• Environmental protection participate in a timely manner in some desired
– Pollution, fuel efficiency activity.

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