CVEN 456/766 HIGHWAY DESIGN Instructor: Dominique Lord Room 301A (CE/TTI Tower) Phone: (979) Spring 2015

TEXTBOOK Required Text: Can be found at AcademicPub.com: ent_product_page.html?slug= _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, 5 th or 6 th 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, 2 nd Edition, ASCE, Reston, Va., (First three chapters included in Ebook) –Roadway Design Manual, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Tx, Revised May dw/rdw.pdf dw/rdw.pdf

TEXTBOOK Other relevant material: –Wright, P.H., and Dixon, K. Highway Engineering. 7 th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J., –Lamm, R., Psarianos, B., and Mailaender, T., Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, –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 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, rp_syn_299.pdf rp_syn_299.pdf –The Access Board, Accessible Rights-of-Way: A Design Guide, –FHWA, Flexibility in Highway Design, Washington, D.C.,

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 (1 st 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 (2 nd Presentation) Term Project Due on Wednesday, May 6 th Term Paper (graduate students) Wednesday, May 6 th

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