Description
This course covers the following topics:
Highways geometric design: highway classification, design controls and standards, crossection elements, vehicles and drivers’ characteristics, forces acting on vehicles, braking and sight distances, principles of route location, horizontal alignments (curves, widening), superelevation, vertical alignments (grade line design, vertical curves, climbing lanes), intersections design.
Highway pavement design: highway soils and materials, flexible pavements design, rigid pavements.
Credits
3 Hours