| CE431 HIGHWAY ENGINEERING |
Department of Civil engineering
King Saud University |
Course Description
CE431 Highway Engineering (Required for a B.Sc.E degree) |
Highway planning and evaluation, Design controls and criteria, Cross-sectional elements, Sight distances, Horizontal and vertical alignments, Intersections, Highway materials characterization, Highway drainage, and Pavement evaluation and maintenance [ 3(3,1,0)] |
| Prerequisite |
CE430 - Introduction to Transportation Systems
CE381 - Engineering properties of Soils and their Measurements |
| Course learning outcomes |
Students completing this course successfully will be able to:
- Recognize Highway Travel Characteristics: Driver, Vehicle and Traffic.
- Recognize Economic Analysis of Highways: Highway Transportation Costs and Methods of Economic Analysis.
- Recognize Highway Surveys and Plans: Highway routs Location and Highway Plans.
- Design Highway Geometric Elements: Sight Distances, Horizontal and Vertical Alignments, Cross Section Elements, and Intersections.
- Recognize highway material properties.
- Design Pavement Structures: Principles and Methods.
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| Topics covered |
- Introduction: Highway system development, highway functional classifications, Highway organizations and associations.
- Highway Evaluation: Economic analysis of highways, Highway transportation costs, Methods of economic analysis, Noise and air pollution, and Contemporary issues related to the impact of highway on the environment.
- Highway Travel Characteristics: Driver and Vehicles.
- Highway Geometric Design: Sight distances, Horizontal and vertical alignments, and Intersections and interchanges.
- Highway Surveys and Plans: Highway route location and highway plans.
- Pavement materials.
- Pavement Structural Design: Principles and methods.
- Concepts for mix design of High-type bituminous mixtures.
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| Class/tutorial schedule |
Class is one time per week in 100-minute lecture sessions. Tutorial is held one time per week in 50-minutes sessions |
| Computer applications |
None |
| Project |
None |
| Contribution of course to meeting the professional component |
- Students learn the analysis process to be involved in designing various highway components used in professional highway engineering.
- Students recognize the role of professional societies in developing codes and standards as well as updating current knowledge.
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| Relationship of Course to Program Outcomes |
- Student apply algebra, elementary calculus, and principles of mechanics.
- Students are able to identify and formulate an engineering problem and to develop solution.
- Students recognize the importance of the analysis in designing highway components.
- Students are encouraged to submit accurate analysis in an efficient and professional way.
- Students recognize their role with an engineering team carrying other aspects for analysing structures, in terms of choosing highway systems and the interaction of decisions made by various engineering teams.
- Students are encouraged to recognize the different highway and pavement systems and their range of applications.
- Students recognize the ethical and professional responsibility in achieving accurate analysis for safe and economical design, and its impact on the well-being of the society.
- Students recognize the need for technical updating on continuing basis, since the course emphasizes on the changing nature of software, codes, and specifications.
- Students recognize the importance of reading and understanding technical contents in English in order to achieve life-long learning and be able to carry out their responsibilities.
- Students recognize the important role of computers in facilitating analysis and design of highway systems.
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| Textbook(s) and/or other required material |
- Highway Engineering, 7th Edition, (2004), Paul H. Wright and Karen Dixon.
- Highway Engineering (1981), Oglesby, C. And Hicks, R., published by John Wiley & Sons.
- Asphalt Pavement Engineering (1967), Wallace, H. And Martin, J., Published by McGraw-hill.
- Principles of Pavement Design (1975), Yoder and Witczak, published by John Wiley & Sons
- A policy on Geometric Design of Highway and Streets (1993), AASHTO.
- Thickness Design (1991) – Asphalt Pavement for Highways and Streets, Asphalt Institute, MS-1.
- Class Notes and Handouts.
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