CA4710 - Highway Engineering | ||||||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||||||
Practically, all highway design problems are computational in nature. With the background provided in the course CA3561 Transportation Engineering as a prerequisite, more in-depth advanced topics will be covered in this course. The course intends to provide advanced techniques on solving highway engineering design problems. The objective is to equip students with various advanced knowledge and methods to tackle realistic highway design methods. Course contents cover detailed demand forecast procedures realizing the future requirements of highway infrastructures, highway pavement material testing methods and data, empirical design method for flexible and rigid pavement structure, detailed design procedures for geometric roundabout junctions and phase-based signal-controlled junctions. Highway alignment designs fulfilling vertical and horizontal safety requirements. Analysing future travel demand and supply patterns and optimizing selection criteria for selection of highway project implementations. | ||||||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 50% | ||||||||||||
Examination: 50% | ||||||||||||
Examination Duration: 2 hours | ||||||||||||
To pass a course, a student must obtain minimum marks of 30% in both coursework and examination components, and an overall mark of at least 40%. | ||||||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||||||
| CA4710.pdf | ||||||||||||
