TRE3265: Transportation Engineering

Welcome message

Greetings from the Transportation Engineering module, students! Get ready for an exciting journey through the complex network involved in developing, improving, and constructing transportation networks. Learn the fundamentals that facilitate the effective flow of people and products. Together, let's forge ahead on the knowledge highway and create a sustainable future."

Intended learning outcomes

·        Understanding basic concepts of pavement failure characteristics and performance criteria

·        Understanding the basic pavement loading characteristics

·        Understanding the interaction between basic pavement design parameters

·        Understanding the effect of improper and inadequate road maintenance programmes

·        Ability to collect and analyse data required for the design of road pavements facilities

·        Ability to evaluate the various pavement design methods and select the most appropriate one in a given situation

·        Ability to plan and design both rigid and flexible road pavements

·        Ability to assess and evaluate the condition of the road pavements and the extent of failure

·        Ability to plan road maintenance

·        Students will be able to explain the road pavement failure and performance criteria

·        Students will be able to explain the difference between mechanistic, empirical and mechanistic-empirical methods of pavement design and the advantages and disadvantages of each.