CVEN 456/766HIGHWAY DESIGN

Instructor: Dominique Lord

Room 301A (CE/TTI Tower) Phone: (979) 458-3949

d-lord@tamu.eduhttps://ceprofs.civil.tamu.edu/dlord/CVEN_456_Course_Material.htm

Spring 2015

TEXTBOOK• Required Text: Can be found at

AcademicPub.com:

http://academicpub.sharedbook.com/serve/ac/acapub/student_product_page.html?slug=1421083553_83_635

(you’ll need to register to access this link)

eBook: $49.90 (Need to install Adobe Digital Editions, 2nd Ed) B&W Hard Copy + eBook: $78.32 (Color version is available, but is not needed)

I suggest that you by the hard copy, since you will need it for the labs and capstone project.

TEXTBOOK• Highly Recommended:

– A Policy on Geometric Design of Highway and Streets, 5th or 6th Ed., American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), 2004 or 2011 (First four chapters included in Ebook) ($225+)

– Schoon, J.G. Geometric Design Projects for Highways: An Introduction, 2nd Edition, ASCE, Reston, Va., 1999. (First three chapters included in Ebook)

– Roadway Design Manual, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Tx, Revised May 2010 http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/rdw/rdw.pdf

TEXTBOOK• Other relevant material:

– Wright, P.H., and Dixon, K. Highway Engineering. 7th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J., 2004.

– Lamm, R., Psarianos, B., and Mailaender, T., Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1999.

– Staplin, L., Lococo, K., Byington, S., and Harkey, D. Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians. U.S.DOT/FHWA Publication No. FHWA-RD-01-103. Washington, D.C., 2001.

TEXTBOOK• Other relevant material:

– Fitzpatrick, and Wooldridge, M. NCHRP Synthesis 299, Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations, Transportation Research Board, 2001. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_299.pdf

– The Access Board, Accessible Rights-of-Way: A Design Guide, 2002. www.access-board.gov

– FHWA, Flexibility in Highway Design, Washington, D.C., 2005. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/flex/index.htm

OBJECTIVES

• Provide fundamental engineering knowledge for designing rural and urban highways

• Show fundamental principles and theory governing the design of highways

• Apply these principles using real concrete examples

• Apply the skills and knowledge learned in this course in practical applications (private & public)

COURSE OUTLINE

• Week 1: Course Outline/Civil 3D seminar (Mr. Hadi K. K.)

• Week 2: /Highway Functional Classification

• Week 3: Design Controls• Week 4: Route Selection• Week 5: Earth Work/Costs (Guest

lecturer)• Week 6: Highway Design Process

COURSE OUTLINE

• Week 7: Sight Distance• Week 8: Horizontal Alignment (1st

Presentation)• Week 9: Vertical Alignment• Week 10: Cross Section Design

(Guest Lecturer) • Week 11: Intersections

COURSE OUTLINE• Week 12: Highway

Characteristics/Environmental Issues (Guest Lecturer)

• Week 13: Time devoted to capstone project

• Week 14: Review (2nd Presentation)• Term Project Due on Wednesday, May

6th • Term Paper (graduate students)

Wednesday, May 6th

Laboratories

• Thursdays 2:20 – 5:10 pm• Team of 3-4 people (1 group per

table)• Software: Civil 3D• Hand-written and computer output

designs• Professional reports

Term Project• Same team as for the laboratories• Software: Civil 3D • Covers all aspects of highway design and

operations• Project(s) to be determined• Practicing Engineers will provide

mentorship– 1 per group

• Computer output designs and technical report

• Two presentations (mid-term and at the end)

GRADING• CVEN 456:

– Labs: 30% (4-5)– Term Project: 55% – Assignments: 15% (4-5)

• CVEN 766:– Labs: 30% (4-5)– Term Project: 55% – Assignments: 15% (4-5)– Term paper: 10%

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Office Hours:– Wednesday 1:00 pm – 3:10 pm– Thursday: 11:00 am – 12:10 pm

• I may take attendance (random)• Must have a valid reason to miss a class

(See TAMU guidelines)• You are responsible for the material

covered in class and in the Ebook/textbook• Any modification to the content of the

course will be discussed in class