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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1 Introduction to the planning and administration of roads in the country, Lecture notes, reference books
historical perspective, road development, national plans, road statistics.

Lecture notes, reference books
2 Planning and administration of roads in the country, road authorities
and agencies, planning process, road categories and classification.

3 Geometric design: accessibility and mobility, design standards, road Lecture notes, reference books
hierarchy, design speed, sight distances (stopping & overtaking)

4 Geometric design: horizontal alignment, circular curves, forces, super- Lecture notes, reference books
elevation, horizontal sight distances, transition curves, widening on
curves.

5 Geometric design: vertical alignment, grades, vertical curves, parabolic Lecture notes, reference books
curves, offsets and setting out, sag & crest curves, vertical sight
distances.

6 Geometric design: road cross-section design, right-of-way, pavement Lecture notes, reference books
width, medians, shoulders, kerbs, pedestrian walkway, road furniture.

7 Geometric design: at-grade intersections, conflicts and safety, design Lecture notes, reference books
criteria, intersection capacity, rotary junction (roundabout), traffic
islands & channelisation, intersection geometric design, sight distances

8 Lecture notes, reference books
Pavement materials: aggregates, types, characteristics, testing

9 Pavement materials: bitumen, modified bitumen, types, characteristics, Lecture notes, reference books
testing

Lecture notes, reference books
10
Bituminous mixes, types, characteristics, performance

11 Lecture notes, reference books
Bituminous mix design, Marshall mix design

Lecture notes, reference books
12 Flexible pavements, types, structure, characteristics, pavement failures
& distresses

13 Flexible pavement design: failure criteria, traffic loading, TRRL & Lecture notes, reference books
AASHO road trials, empirical and analytical pavement design methods.

14 Flexible pavement design: Road Note 29, Road Note 31, JKR Lecture notes, reference books
pavement design method.

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