ENCI262-09S1 (C) Semester One 2009

Survey, Transport and GIS

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2009
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2009

Description

Field survey techniques in plane surveying. Survey Camp. Introduction to transportation engineering. Traffic flow theory. Geometric design of roads and railways and associated surveying calculations. Introduction to GIS.

This course will introduce you to:
- The basics of surveying (levelling, traversing, mapping and setting out);
- The fundamental concepts of transportation, driver behaviour and traffic flow;
- The principles of geometric design for roads and railways;
- The concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

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.  GIS will be introduced as a tool for spatial data analysis and management of surveying, transport and natural resources data and information.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry.

Timetable Note

Afternoon Sessions:
A series of afternoons will introduce students to the fundamentals of surveying.  There will also be an afternoon undertaking traffic surveys and an afternoon GIS lab.

Survey Camp (Living Springs)
A week-long camp will be held in the last week of the term break (20-25 April).  An additional fee for this camp is included in the course fee.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Glen Koorey

Lecturers

Roger Dawe and Tom Cochrane

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
GIS assignment and lab report 10%
Field Survey Work and Exercises 25%
Final exam 50% Exam will comprise questions on transport (25%), GIS (10% and surveying (15%)
Traffic/transport exercises (2) and traffic survey lab report 15%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Banks, James H; Introduction to transportation engineering ; 2nd ed; McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Bolstad, Paul; GIS fundamentals : a first text on geographic information systems ; 2nd ed; Eider Press, 2005.

Wolf, Paul R. , Ghilani, Charles D; Elementary surveying : an introduction to geomatics ; 11th ed; Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.

Required Text

Course Reader on Transportation needs to be purchased from the CourseMart

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $606.00

International fee $2,640.00

* 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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