| Course Type | Compulsory Course |
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| Course Level | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Year of Study | 3 |
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| Semester | Fifth Term (Fall) |
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| ECTS | 5 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Learn the fundamental definitions of transportation and traffic engineering, and classify transportation systems along with their functions and characteristics,
- Understand the effects of vehicle characteristics on highway design from both theoretical and practical perspectives, and calculate stopping sight distance and passing sight distance in terms of traffic safety,
- Learn the fundamentals of transportation facility design, and perform route selection, design of highway elements, earthworks, and pavement type selection in highway design,
- Discuss the fundamentals of traffic flow and investigate the relationships among various traffic flow parameters that describe the operational performance of traffic flow.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | No |
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| Course Description | Introduction to transportation systems. Planning and management techniques. Vehicles, network and terminals as components of transportation systems engineering. Geometric Design of transportation facilities emphasizing land transportation. Introduction to models of traffic flow. |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introduction of Transportation Systems |
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2nd Week |
History of transportation systems and modes,The basic structure of Turkish transportation system |
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3rd Week |
Road-Vehicle Performance, Vehicular Characteristics |
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4th Week |
Braking systems |
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5th Week |
Stopping and passing sight distances |
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6th Week |
Design of Highway Facilities |
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7th Week |
Major Aspects of Highway Design |
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8th Week |
Mid-term Exam |
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9th Week |
Zero Line, Horizontal Curves, Vertical Curves, Coordination of Horizontal and Vertical Curves |
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10th Week |
Zero Line, Horizontal Curves, Vertical Curves, Coordination of Horizontal and Vertical Curves |
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11th Week |
Zero Line, Horizontal Curves, Vertical Curves, Coordination of Horizontal and Vertical Curves |
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12th Week |
Zero Line, Horizontal Curves, Vertical Curves, Coordination of Horizontal and Vertical Curves |
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13th Week |
Earthwork, Pavement Design |
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14th Week |
Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering |
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15th Week |
Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Reference:
Banks, J.H., and Mohle, H.R., Introduction to Transportation Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Additional Resources:
Wright, J., Transportation Engineering (ICE Textbook series), ICE Publishing, 2015.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Questions/Answers
- Case Study
- Problem Solving
- Practice
- Project
- Presentation
- Report Preparation
- Other
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
25 |
| Quiz |
2 |
10 |
| Project |
1 |
20 |
| Attendance |
1 |
5 |
| Total(%) |
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60 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
|
60 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
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40 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
2 |
5 |
10 |
| Individual or group work |
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| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
35 |
35 |
| Course hours |
14 |
4 |
56 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
25 |
25 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
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| Final exam |
1 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
| Homework |
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| Presentation (including preperation) |
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| Project |
1 |
20 |
20 |
| Quiz |
2 |
1 |
2 |
| Total Work Load | 151 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 5.03 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 5 |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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