Undergraduate Course: Infrastructure and Transport 3 (CIVE09031)
Course Outline
School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | The long term delivery and maintenance of a viable infrastructure is of significant importance to any nation. The course will provide an introduction to the theory of infrastructure, why it is important and the issues facing future infrastructure. The course will also provide selected elements of transportation engineering: long term strategic planning; highway pavements; introduction to railway engineering; introduction to NDT of transportation bridges. |
Course description |
L1-2 Infrastructure History and Future
L3-4 Transportation Model Building
Trip Generation & Distribution, modal Split, and Traffic
Assignment.
L4 Highway Capacity
Headway distributions, mean speeds, flow and density;
Space mean and time mean speeds.
L5 Priority Control Junctions
Modelling; Conflicts; Gap acceptance; Merging; Areas of
Collision.
L6 Roundabouts and Channelisation
Objectives; Roundabout design; Balance of flow capacity; Entry Capacity; Queuing.
L7 Signal Controlled Intersections
Traffic Signals; Phase concepts; Intergreen periods;
Effective green time; Optimum cycles.
L8 Pavement Construction
Paving Materials; CBR Test:
L9 Pavement Materials & Highway Pavement Design;
Granular materials. UK & US practice
L10 Railway Design
Track design: procedures for Bridges, Roads & Railways
, Sonics & Infra-Red Thermography
L11 Overview and revision
Revision of topics covered; Examination-style questions.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None though Civil Engineering students will find the course familiar. |
High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2016/17, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 16,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
67 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
Exam %: 100 |
Feedback |
Mid-semester ¿Start, Stop, Continue¿
Exam post-mortem
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Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to: ¿ Appreciate the importance of infrastructure, its sectors, its issues, its history and its future; ¿ undertake analyses in transport planning; ¿ describe the principal features of junction design; ¿ calculate highway and junction capacities; ¿ describe aspects of railway engineering;
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Reading List
Highway Design and Construction, R.J. Salter, MacMillan, 2nd edition, 1988 |
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
Special Arrangements |
none |
Keywords | Infrastructure,development,transportation,highways,railways |
Contacts
Course organiser | Prof Mike Forde
Tel: (0131 6)50 5720
Email: m.forde@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk |
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