Highway and Traffic Engineering

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Road construction and maintenance practices.
• The principles and practice of route location and geometric design of highways
• Designing for safety, efficiency and environmental protection.
• The principles and practice of structural design for flexible, rigid and composite road pavements
• Road condition monitoring and rehabilitation options/methods
• Road junction types, layouts and operations.
• Traffic flow theory and traffic analysis processes on highways.
• Analysis methods for traffic at road junctions
• Traffic control systems

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively
• Defend a scheme design through a written report.
• Propose and evaluate alternative designs and options, showing a critical awareness of options
• Design and draw geometric alignments for road links
• Select and design roads and junctions according to requirements/specifications
• Design the structure of flexible, rigid and composite road pavements
• Propose and evaluate alternative designs and options

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use creativity and innovation in problem solving
• Learn and study/research independently
• Demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems
• Communicate your proposals succinctly
• Time management
• Report your work effectively
• Manipulate and analyse data
• Collate and synthesise/prioritise information

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use the junction design software LINSIG and ARCADY effectively.
• Produce highway engineering drawings

Contact time in the module will include the following sessions, with each session including a mix of different delivery modes as decided by individual lecturers in consultation with the module lead:

1)Road classifications, standards and hierarchies

2)Traffic flow theory

3)Junction design:

a.Priority junctions, roundabouts and grade separation

b.ARCADY practical

c.Traffic queuing and gap acceptance

d.Traffic signals

e.LINSIG practical

4)Highway design and construction:

a.Geometric design of highway links

b.Road pavement materials and design

c.Pavement deterioration and condition monitoring

d.Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation

5)Highways and public realm

Teaching methods include:

Lectures, tutorials, computer practical sessions and seminars.

Learning activities include:

Individual design work, literature review/analysis, directed reading, field work, student directed learning.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.