ADVANCED TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

Course Contents

Unit No. Title No. of Hours

Section I

1. Unit 1- Introduction

Infrastructure &its role in developing society; Transport sector in India –

policy framework; Development plans –Airports, Highways –National 05
highway development program (NHDP); JNNURM, Asian highways
network (AH).

2. Unit 2- Traffic characteristics

Traffic characteristics – Road user characteristics, General human

characteristics, Physical characteristics. Vision eye – movement peripheral
vision, Visual attention, Visual sensitivity to light and colour, glare vision
and recovery perception of space. Hearing, Stability sensation, Time factor 07
in response, Theory of PIEV modifying factors, conditional responses;
Vehicular Characteristics – types, dimensions, resistance, power
requirement for different resistance, change in direction – minimum turning
radius, off tracking, slip angle.

3. Unit 3- Traffic Engineering & Speed Analysis, Traffic operation and

management

a) Traffic Engineering & Speed Analysis: Introduction, Speed studies,

journey time and delay studies, Sampling in traffic studies & application,
Traffic surveys-types of volume count Planning, Problems on PCU, moving
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observer method and spot speed.

b) Traffic operation and management: Traffic systems management and

Travel demand management - Congestion management-Cost effective
management measures, Traffic control aids, Street furniture, Road
Arboriculture–Traffic Regulation, Traffic Sign and Road Markings.

Section II

4. Unit 4- Trip generation and distribution

Factors governing trip generation and attraction –Application of 06

Regression Analysis- Methods of trip distribution; Growth and Synthetic
Models Calibration and Application of gravity model.-Category analysis.
5. Unit 5- a) Introduction to intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and its
functional areas

Definition, Objectives, Historical Background, Benefits of ITS -ITS Data

collection techniques –Detectors, Automatic vehicle location (AVL),
Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI), Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), Video data collection. 08
b) ITS functional areas

Advanced traffic management systems (ATMS), Advanced traveller

information Systems (ATIS), Commercial vehicle operations (CVO),
Advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS), Advanced Public transportation
systems (APTS), and Advanced rural transportation systems (ARTS).

6. Unit 6- Public transport system

History and role of Transit, Transit system and transit mode characteristics,
Transportation technology Vision–2020, Role of various modes of Mass 06
Transport and their Impact, Indian condition Bus Rapid Transit Systems
(BRTS)-Rapid transit Rail-Metro & Mono rails.

Sr. No. Title of Book Author Publisher/Edition Topics

1. Principles and Practice of Kadiyali L.R. and Khanna 1,2,3

Highway Engineering N.B. Lal Publishers,
2. Traffic Engineering and Khanna 3,4,5
Kadiyali L.R.
Transport Planning Publishers,
Principles of
3. ParthaChakroborty Prentice-Hall 6
Transportation
and Animesh Das India
Engineering
4. Traffic Flow Theory and 3
Drew D.R McGraw-Hill
Control
Fundamentals of
5. 2,3
Transportation Papacostas, C.A., Prentice-Hall
Engineering India