ENCN261-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

Transport and Surveying

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

Introduction to transportation engineering. Geometric design of roads. Surveying fundamentals. Surveying camp.

- The basics of surveying (levelling, traversing, mapping and setting out);
- The fundamental concepts of transportation, driver behaviour and traffic flow; highway capacity and level of service
- The principles of geometric design for roads and railways;
- Basic principles of teamwork and leadership;
- The interaction between traffic and field surveying and their application to transport projects

Learning Outcomes

This course is expected to develop student skills to the level where the student can handle plans and complete or oversee an engineering survey, and understand the basic principles of geometric design and the importance of human factors.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

Restrictions

ENCI262

Course Coordinator

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment - Surveying (x3) 20%
Assignments - transport (x3) & traffic lab 30%
final exam - transport 30%
Test - surveying 20%


All assignments are due by 9am on the given dates (see timetable). Late assignments will have 20% deducted for each day late, unless prior arrangement has been made. Please contact the course coordinator (preferably well in advance) if you have genuine difficulties meeting submission dates.

The 15% Transportation Test (test duration is 90 mins) is currently scheduled for the week of 6-10 May; the time and location will be confirmed later. The transportation material covered in this test will not be directly examined in the final year exam.

Any “CIVIL” approved calculator is allowed. Students with genuine medical grounds may apply for an Aegrotat for the final examination, with their grade to be based on their internal coursework, mid-semester test and exam result (if any).

To achieve a pass in the course, students should achieve at least 40% (or 20% out of 50%) in the course work and at least 40% (or 20% out of 50%) in the mid-term test and final exam. The total mark to pass the course is also expected to be at least 50% (out of 100%).

Repeat students must see the Course Coordinator ASAP with regards to exemptions from labs, assignments, etc. If desired, students with previous relevant academic passes or practical experience (e.g. Polytechnic surveying courses, previous engineering employment) may also apply to the Course Coordinator for exemption from part of the coursework. All exemptions must be confirmed by Friday 1st March. All students will (re)sit the final exam.

Textbooks / Resources

Study Guides: Study Guides will be provided in hardcopy for each of the surveying and transport sections of the course – students are expected to bring these to all sessions. The Study Guide materials are also available in PDF format on the course webpage on Moodle/Learn and students can view them there if they wish.

Other Suggested Texts:
Austroads (2009), Guide to Road Design (esp. Part 3: Geometric Design) – electronic copies will be available on Learn.

Notes

Proposed Teaching and Delivery

The course will comprise 47 lectures plus 12 hours of practical afternoon work, as well as a field survey camp where students will apply the course material to real-life projects. Some tutorial sessions will also be provided for those who want practice with exercises. See the timetable following for more details.

No of lectures               Topic
3              Intro to Transportation Engineering; NZ context; Impacts
2 Road Hierarchies and Network Topologies
4 Traffic Flow Theory; Car-Following Models; Traffic counting
2 User/vehicle/road Factors; Sight Distances
1               Highway Capacity; Level of Service
2 Intersection design principles
3 Intro to Geometric Design, consistency & speeds
5              Horizontal/Vertical Curves; cross-sections; overtaking opportunities
1 Intro to Pavement Construction and Transport Asset Management
2 Highway Capacity; Level of Service
3 Intro to Surveying; Levelling
2 Grades/Distance Measurement
3 Areas/Volumes
4 Theodolities and Traversing
3 Survey Camp Intro/Assignments/Review
3               Road alignments and contours; setting out
5               Special topics: case study; survey and transport review/briefings

Afternoon Sessions:

A series of afternoons will introduce students to the fundamentals of surveying. There will also be an afternoon undertaking traffic surveys on Creyke Road. Note that these afternoons may still continue even if the weather is not optimal; students should be suitably attired to protect themselves from heat, cold or rain.

1st Pro Survey Camp (Living Springs, Lyttelton Harbour)

A compulsory week-long camp will be held in the last week of the term break (14-19 April). The fee for this camp was included in your course fees.  Students will leave to the Living Springs Camp on SUNDAY evening, the 14th of April.  Mr Roger Dawe will instruct the students on the details of the camp in due course.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $808.00

International fee $4,550.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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