
Explore key concepts in traffic engineering, including side effects of transportation improvements, road classifications, traffic volume objectives, speed studies, travel time analysis, vehicle characteristics, and core traffic flow relationships.
Understand fundamental traffic flow principles, including the relationships among volume, density, and speed, and the fundamental diagram, with applications to highway planning. Explore traffic impact studies and driver-vehicle-road characteristics.
Discover soil classification for highway design using the Unified Soil Classification System and ESTA system. Classify soils by grain size distribution, liquid limit, and plasticity index to guide design decisions.
Learn how highway geometric design depends on design vehicles and design control, including turning radii, vehicle dimensions, design elements, functional classification, traffic volume, topography, level of service, and budget considerations.
Explore highway material design in chapter four, covering temperature dependent design, reliability considerations, and asphalt concrete mix design using Marshall and Superpave methods.
Explore the components of rigid pavement, including concrete slab, subbase, and reinforcement types, and learn design methods, joints, maintenance, and evaluation considerations for highway pavements.
Explore vertical alignment and parabolic vertical curves in highway design, covering crest and low-point profiles, grade limits, sight distance, and stopping-distance design controls.
Explore the components and design of flexible pavements, compare flexible and rigid pavements, and analyze base and surface courses, drainage, and material specifications for highway engineering.
Highway engineering is an engineering discipline branching from civil engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.. The full course should provides a very good basis of Highway engineering. There will also be revisions and solved exams.
The full course will be composed of 2 parts; part 1 will have the theory and some examples while part 2 will have solved questions, sheet problems and exams. This first part will cover topics such as: design vehicle, soil classification for highway design, horizontal and vertical alignment, design of flexible and rigid pavements, asphalt mix design and more.
This course is typically taught at the third or fourth year for Civil Engineering students. It might also be needed for Architectural students. The course materials are mostly in simple English; however, for the Arabic transcript, I will provide translation to them. I am hoping that the participants of these courses will enjoy the material and will have great understanding of the Basics of Highways design and alignment. I am also planning to attach any supporting documents in a PDF format that will summarize the lecture videos and notes.