Course Outline: CIV216 Highway Engineering
Course Outline: CIV216 Highway Engineering
Course Outline: CIV216 Highway Engineering
3 _ 2/2 ________
Credits Lecture/Laboratory Hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Explores the planning, design, construction, and characteristics of highways and city streets, including
layout, traffic requirements, safety and control, drainage, sub-grade structure, base courses, and surface
pavements. Problems to be solved include geometric design, traffic volume, channelization, and
hydrology. Lab projects involve roadway designing. Spring offering.
Prerequisites: ENT116
(Course Competencies 1, 2, 3, & 6; Gen Ed Goals 1, 2 & 3; Core Skills A, B & F).
1. List and describe the major areas of study and analysis for highway development.
2. List and describe the different types of governmental highway systems, and give real
examples of each.
3. Discuss the Interstate Highway system.
4. List and describe the highway types.
5. List and describe several highway organizations and associations.
6. List and describe the various classes of data that must be complied in highway planning.
7. List and describe the costs to be included in highway economy studies.
8. Compute motor vehicle operating costs to the highway user.
9. Describe the requirements for a small shopping center parking lot as to space dimensions
and angles, driveway widths and turning radii.
(Course Competencies 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6; Gen Ed Goals 1, 2 & 3; Core Skills A, B & F).
1. Define “perception time” and “reaction time,” and give recommended design values.
2. List and differentiate between the four methods of estimating future traffic volumes.
3. Define and calculate service volumes of highways considering the effects of sight distance,
obstructions, grades, land widths and commercial vehicles.
4. Using the “benefit cost ratio” method, determine if it is economically feasible to construct a
particular highway alignment.
5. List the factors that reduce highway capacity.
6. Compute safe stopping and passing distances for level roadways and for vertical curves in
crest or sag.
7. Compute super-elevation requirements for horizontal curves considering design speed,
friction and radius in the calculations. Describe the meaning of “runout” as it applies to
super-elevation of horizontal curves.
8. Compute stations and elevations along horizontal and vertical curves.
9. Sketch typical cross sections and profiles of highways.
10. List the values of typical lane widths, grades and design speeds.
11. Determine the minimum vertical curve length to provide safe stopping sight distance and
safe passing sight distance.
12. Determine the appropriate speed degree of curvature and/or radius for horizontal curves.
(Course Competencies 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6; Gen Ed Goals 1, 2 & 3; Core Skills A, B & F).
(Course Competencies 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6; Gen Ed Goals 1, 2 & 3; Core Skills A, B & F).
1. Compute the water runoff from a drainage area, given the storm frequency, character and
slope of ground surface using available charts and graphs and the “rational formula”: i.e.
(Q = Aci).
2. Explain the meaning of each parameter in the “rational formula.”
3. Design a circular pipe, trapezoidal culvert and rectangular culvert to efficiently carry a
particular water flow, under free flow conditions, using available charts and graphs and the
Manning Formula.
4. Analyze a given storm drain system for various flow parameters, such as velocity and flow
using the Manning Formula.
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5. Set-up in tabular form the necessary chart for completely analyzing or designing a simple
storm drain system.
6. List and describe various drainage structures such as manholes, inlets, end-walls and
headwalls.
7. Classify sub-critical and supercritical flow.
(Course Competencies 1, 2, 3, & 6; Gen Ed Goals 1, 2 & 3; Core Skills A, B & F).
(Course Competencies 1, 2, 3, & 6; Gen Ed Goals 1, 2 & 3; Core Skills A, B & F).
1. Explain the procedure for manufacture of “asphalt cements” and “rapid curing,” “slow
curing,” “medium curing” and emulsified asphalt binders.
2. Compare and contrast the uses of the various materials listed in number (1).
3. List and define the various methods for testing the stability of bituminous concrete
mixtures.
4. Explain the correct construction procedure for the spreading and compacting of bituminous
concrete base and surface courses.
5. Explain the various steps in the preparation of bituminous concrete mixtures in a “batch
type” plant.
6. Define the various types of surface treatments used to restore existing bituminous concrete
and stone roads.
7. List the items that an inspector should look for at the site of bituminous concrete
construction.
III. REVIEW
Time: 1/2 Week
IV. EVALUATION
2 Tests and a Final Examination will be given.
Objective questions (closed book) and analytical problems (open book) are given.
Each test is approximately 2 hours in duration.
Week
1 Introduction:
The field of highway engineering
Terminology: Highway systems, types and organizations
Parking lot requirements
2 Highway Planning:
Road inventory
Rural traffic surveys
Urban travel studies
Highway financing
Vehicle ownership and use
Special studies
Traffic Forecasting
2, 3 Highway Economy:
Terminology
Cost of the highway user
4, 5, 6 Driver, Vehicle and Road Characteristics:
Highway Capacity
Highway Design
Geometry of Roads
Highway standards
Design speeds
Cross sections
Profiles
Sight distance
Vertical curves
Horizontal curves
Channelization and Traffic Control Devices
7 Traffic Engineering
8,9,10 Highway Drainage:
Hydrology
Methods of runoff analysis
Rational method of runoff analysis
Design of drainage structures
Week
15 Review
Laboratory
Laboratories will be used for design projects. Slides and films will be used for stimulating
discussion of highway construction techniques. Guest lecturers might be invited to discuss
specific topics.
1. Parking Lot
Layout of property lines, fencing, curb, aprons, ingress, and egress, parking stalls,
details of curb, pavement, etc. Students may be expected to produce this drawing using
SOFTDESK/AUTOCAD civil engineering and drafting computer techniques.
2. Highway Design
The reconstruction and redesign of a major traffic artery requiring calculations for width
of roadway, intersections, drainage, pavement, alignment and quantity estimates. A set
of drawings will be prepared. Students may be expected to produce drawings using
SOFTDESK/AUTOCAD civil engineering and computer drafting techniques.
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