Highway and Traffic Engineering

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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.