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Course Name	Turkish	Yol Planlaması ve İnşaatı
	English	Road Design and Construction
Course Code	GEO 460	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	7	2	2	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Adem Faik İyinam
Course Objectives		1- To Teach Basic Components of Highway 2 - To Road Geometric Standards 3 - To Prepare Route Surveying 4 - To Draw Highway Design Project
Course Description		Basic concept in highway engineering. Characteristics of driver-pedestrian-vehicles. General properties of highway traffic. Geometric standards and design traffic of highways. Highway capacity. Highway location and horizontal alignment. Vertical alignment and curves. Horizontal curves. Urban roads. Intersection control and design. Drainage.
Course Outcomes		1- Draw highway cross-sectional components and dimension them 2- Study road vehicle performances 3 - Calculate design traffic volume 4 - Determine geometric standards and width of roadway 5 - Perform route surveying 6 - Calculate and draw horizontal aligning issues 7 - Calculate and draw vertical aligning issues 8 - Classify road types within highway transportation system 9 - Classify Basic Intersection Types
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