🛣️ Highway and Transportation Engineering: Planning, Design, and Safety in Road Infrastructure

🛣️ Course Title: Highway and Transportation Engineering: Planning, Design, and Safety in Road Infrastructure
Code: 4025-CIV

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📘 Introduction & Description:

This advanced course offers a comprehensive overview of the design, planning, and safety management of transportation systems and road infrastructure. With an emphasis on real-world applications and the use of industry-standard software like AutoCAD Civil 3D and MX Road, participants will explore every stage of highway engineering — from traffic analysis and route planning to geometric design and safety integration.

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🎯 Objectives:

• Understand the fundamentals of highway and transportation engineering.

• Apply geometric and safety standards in road design.

• Analyze traffic flow and design road networks accordingly.

• Use modern software tools for drafting, modeling, and simulating transportation systems.

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📈 Expected Outcomes:

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
✅ Plan, analyze, and design functional and safe roadways
✅ Perform traffic studies and simulate road network performance
✅ Apply AASHTO/IRC geometric standards to curves and intersections
✅ Use software tools to develop accurate design and documentation
✅ Contribute to real transportation and infrastructure projects

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⏱️ Time Frame:

Duration: 6 Weeks — 36 Hours Total
Schedule: 2 sessions/week × 3 hours/session

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🧭 Course Outline in Professional Detail

Module 1: Introduction to Transportation Systems

• Components: roads, transit, pedestrians, freight

• Functional classification of roads

• Accessibility, mobility, and capacity

• Sustainability and smart mobility concepts

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Module 2: Traffic Engineering Fundamentals

• Traffic flow theory: volume, density, speed

• Capacity analysis and Level of Service (LOS)

• Traffic data collection methods

• Analysis of intersections and bottlenecks

• Basic traffic signal design

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Module 3: Roadway Geometric Design

• Horizontal alignment: curves, superelevation

• Vertical alignment: crest/sag curves

• Cross-sectional elements: lanes, shoulders, medians

• Sight distance (SSD, ISD), vehicle turning paths

• Urban vs. rural road design criteria

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Module 4: Safety & Intersection Design

• Design of signalized/un-signalized intersections

• Roundabout design principles

• Road signs and pavement markings

• Crash analysis: black spot identification

• Traffic calming strategies

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Module 5: Software Applications in Road Design

• AutoCAD Civil 3D:

  • Terrain modeling (DTM), profiles, corridors

  • Alignments, assemblies, and subassemblies

  • Plan & profile sheet generation

• MX Road:

  • Chainage and alignment design

  • Cross-section templates and superimposed roads

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Module 6: Project Simulation and Case Studies

• Traffic simulation using real data

• Road design for a virtual project (urban or rural context)

• Analysis of real traffic accidents and improvement proposals

• Final project: Complete road network design submission with documentation

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