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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
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.
Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry
ENCI262
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Head of Department
A Course Reader: The course reader materials are available in PDF format on the course webpage on Moodle/learn and students can print them at their own cost if they wish.
Proposed Teaching and DeliveryThe course will comprise 44 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 Topic3 Intro to Transportation Engineering; NZ context; Impacts2 Road Hierarchies and Network Topologies4 Traffic Flow Theory; Car-Following Models; Traffic counting2 User/vehicle/road Factors; Sight Distances11 Geometric Design (Speeds; Horizontal/Vertical; Cross-sections)2 Intersection design principles2 Intro to Pavement Construction and Transport Asset Management2 Highway Capacity; Level of Service3 Intro to Surveying; Levelling2 Grades/Distance Measurement3 Traversing3 Survey Camp Intro/Assignments/Review3 Areas/Volumes2 Road Alignments and Contours; Setting Out2 Review and final Transportation test briefingAfternoon Sessions: A series of afternoons will introduce students to the fundamentals of surveying. There will also be an afternoon undertaking traffic surveys.1st Pro Survey Camp (Living Springs, Lyttelton Harbour)A compulsory week-long camp will be held in the last week of the term break (15-20 April). The fee for this camp was included in your course fees. Students will leave to the Living Springs Camp on SUNDAY evening, the 15th of April. Mr Roger Dawe will instruct the students on the details of the camp in due course.
Domestic fee $777.00
International fee $4,375.00
* 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 .