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Official AKTU syllabus of Traffic Engineering and Transportation Economics (HTTE801) for B.Tech Honors Degree in Transportation Engineering – 4 credits, L-T-P 3-1-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Traffic Engineering and Transportation Economics
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CO1. Understand the various traffic characteristics and fundamental of traffic flow.
CO2. Demonstrate traffic flow modeling & computer simulation.
CO3. Analyse various traffic control measures and design traffic engineering facilities.
CO4. Perform the economic evaluation of transportation projects.
CO5. Get acquainted with the concept of financing of highway projects and estimation of direct and indirect costs related to transportation projects.
Course Content
| Unit-1 | TRAFFIC STREAM CHARACTERISTICS: Road user and vehicle characteristics, Fundamental parameters and relations, Traffic Stream Models, Modeling vehicle arrivals: Continuous distributions to model Headways and speed, Modeling vehicle arrivals: Discrete distributions to model flow and evaluation of distributions. | 8 |
| Unit-2 | MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC FLOW MODELING: Car Following Models: Linear models, Car Following Models: Non-linear models, Lane Changing Models, Microscopic Traffic Simulation (Vehicle generation, model frame work, calibration and validations, statistical error analysis, applications). MACROSCOPIC AND MESOSCOPIC MODELS: Traffic Flow Modeling Analogies: First order models, analysis of shock waves, Traffic Flow Modeling Analogies: Numerical implementation and higher order models, Cell transmission models, Cellular automata models: Discrete Simulation, Traffic Progression and Platoon dispersion. | 8 |
| Unit-3 | TRAFFIC ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT: Capacity and Level of Service concepts, Queuing models and applications, Basics of traffic management. Traffic intersection control: Principles of Traffic Control and Traffic Signs, Road Markings and Channelization, Uncontrolled Intersection: Gap acceptance and capacity concepts, Uncontrolled Intersection: Capacity and LOS analysis, Traffic Rotaries and Grade Separated Intersection. | 8 |
| Unit-4 | Economic evaluation of transport plans Need for economic evaluation, cost and benefits of transport projects, time horizon in economic assessment, basic principles of economic evaluation, interest rate, method of economice valuation, benefit cost ratio method, first year rate of return, net present value method, internal rate of return method, and comparison of various methods of economic evaluation. | 8 |
| Unit-5 | VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS: Introduction, road user cost study in India , components of VOC, factors affecting VOC, fuel consumption relationship, spare parts consumption, maintenance and repairs, labour cost, tyre life, lubricants, utilization, and fixed costs. ACCIDENT COSTS: Introduction, relevance of accident costing for a developing country, review of alternative methodologies for accident costing, Indian studies. Financing of road projects - methods – Private Public Partnership (PPP) - Toll collection - Economic viability of Build-Operate-Transfer Schemes – Risk Analysis - Case Studies. | 8 |
Text Books
- Winfrey, Economic analysis for Highways, International Textbook Company, Pennsylvania, 1969.
- CRRI, Road User Cost Study in India, New Delhi, 1982.
- IRC, Manual on Economic Evaluation of Highway Projects in India, SP30, 2007.
- W.Ronald Hudson, Ralph Haas and Zeniswki “Modern Pavement Management”- McGraw Hill andCo.
- IRC 37-2001, IRC 81-1997, IRC 58 – 2002, IRC 59 – 1976, IRC 101-1988, Indian Roads Congress.
- Khanna and Justo “Highway Engineering”- Nemchand & Bros, Roorkee.
Reference Books
- D. Johnson Victor, “Essentials of bridge Engineering”- Oxford, IBH publishing company.
- Ponnuswamy, “Bridge Engineering”-McGraw Hill Publication, 1989.
- Vazirani Ratwani & M.G. Aswani, “Design of Concrete Bridges”- Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
- “Design of Bridges”- Dr. Krishna Raju, Oxford & IBH Publishing company Limited.
- “Analysis and design of Bridges”- M.A. Jayaram, Sapna Publishers, Bangalore.
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