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AKTU Airport, Docks and Inland Waterways (HTTE501) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Transportation Engineering
Airport, Docks and Inland Waterways HTTE501
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Official AKTU syllabus of Airport, Docks and Inland Waterways (HTTE501) for B.Tech Honors Degree in Transportation Engineering – 3 credits, L-T-P 3-0-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Airport, Docks and Inland Waterways
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Course Outcomes: This course will enable students to CO1. Explain components of an airport and aircraft characteristics affecting the design of airports.
CO2. Plan the requirements of terminal area and suggest an optimum layout for the terminal area based on passenger and baggage volume.
CO3. Design the runway and taxiway geometrics based on the likely aircrafts using the airport.
CO4. Understand components of ports and harbors.
CO5. Plan & design the harbor and other costal structures.
Course Content
| Unit-1 | GENERAL: History, National Airport Authority, Air Craft’s and its Characteristics, Airport Classifications, Airport Planning, Planning consideration: information required, preliminary feasibility, role of financing, forecasting for planning purpose: forecasts required, accuracy and limitations of forecasts, factors affecting traffic growth, principles of forecasting, forecasting methods. | 8 |
| Unit-2 | AIRPORT SITE EVALUATION: factors affecting airport location, Airside development: runway and taxiway physical characteristics, airport capacity, Landside development: passenger processing, baggage processing, passenger waiting, passenger amenities ,Environment and aviation activities: aircraft noise, air quality in the vicinity of airports, global environment problem arising from airport use, water and soil pollution in the vicinity of airport, Land-use planning: assessing noise for land-use planning, risk of accident around airports. | 8 |
| Unit-3 | Introduction to Airport Engineering Air craft characteristics affecting airport planning & design, selection of site for an airport. Airports - layout and orientation, Runway and taxiway design consideration and geometric design. Airport drainage management, Zoning laws, Visual aids and air traffic control, Runway lighting, Runway operation Helipads, hangers, service equipment. | 8 |
| Unit-4 | GENERAL: Advantages and Disadvantages of Water Transportation, Elements of Water Transportation, Classification of Harbors, Ports Development in India, Port Authorities, Bodies and Association. | 8 |
| Unit-5 | HARBOR ENGINEERING: Classification of Harbor basin, general layout of harbors, Docks, Different components of docks. Inland waterways, Inland water transportation in India, classification of waterways, economics of inland waterways transportation, national waterways. | 8 |
Text Books
- Transportation Engineering, Volume-II- Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours, Bridges and Tunnels by C. venkatramaih, Universities Press.
- Air-port Engineering by S.K.Khanna and M.G.Arora.
- Alonzo Def. Quinn, Design and Construction of Ports and Marine Structure, McGraw- Hill Book Company, New York.
- Ashford N. And Wright P. H., Airport Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.
- Horonjeff R and Mackelvey F. X., Planning and Design of Airports fourth Intl, Edition, McGraw Hill book Co., New Delhi.
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