INS 302E - Highway Engineering

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental design knowledge for highway engineering.

Course Description

Course Content: Introduction to transportation systems, Basic definitions of highway components, Characteristics of road users and vehicles, Vehicle movements, General characteristics of highway traffic, Highway capacity, Selection of highway geometric standards, Location survey, Horizontal curves and super-elevation, Transition curves, Road profile and vertical curves, Earthworks, Cost equations and Earth distribution.