Lecture Description
- The CosmoLearning Team
Course Index
- Introduction to Railway Engineering
- Gauges and Permanent Way
- Wheel and Axles, Coning of Wheels
- Track Resistances, Hauling Capacity
- Track Modulus, Stresses in Track
- Stresses in Components of Track
- Rails
- Creep in Rails
- Wears & Failures in Rails
- Jointed or Welded Rails
- Sleepers
- Ballast
- Fastenings
- Geometric Design: Alignment of Track
- Horizontal Curve and Super Elevation
- Speeds on Track
- Transition Curve & Widening of Track
- Vertical Curve & Gradients
- Turnouts-Components
- Crossing and Design of Turnout
- Track Junctions and Designs
- Signals (Part I)
- Signals (Part II)
- Train Control Systems
- Interlocking of Track
- High Speed Tracks
- Introduction of Air Transport
- Aircraft Characteristics
- Aircraft Controls, Airport Site and Size Selection
- Airport Obstructions
- Runway Orientation
- Runway Length
- Runway Geometric
- Taxiway
- Exit Taxiway
- Aprons and Aircraft Parking
- Terminal Area and Building
- Terminal Planning and Hangers
- Visual Aids-Markings
- Visual Aids-Lighting and Signage
Course Description
In this course, Prof. Rajat Rastogi gives 40 video lectures on Transportation Engineering. Topics that are covered in this course are:
- Introduction to Transportation Engineering
- Elements of Transportation Engineering (e.g.: vehicle, driver, way, terminal, and control)
- Transportation modes
- Development and transportation
- Various aspects of transportation engineering (e.g., pavement design, traffic engineering, transport planning, public transportation, etc.)
- Layout, Orientation, and Geometric Design
- Geometric Design of highways and railways (e.g., horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, etc.)
- Geometry of hill roads
- Orientation of runways, and geometry of taxiways
- Curve layout
- Pavements and Rail Tracks
- Types of pavements
- Analysis and design of flexible pavements
- Pavement drainage
- Construction and maintenance of flexible pavements
- Introduction to design of rail tracks
- Traffic Engineering
- Parameters characterizing traffic flow (e.g. density, speed, flow)
- Data collection techniques for traffic parameters and delay studies
- Introduction to traffic flow theory (including description of speed-density, speed-flow, and flow density relations)
- Introductions to concept of capacity and level of service
- Transportation and the Environment
- Course Outline for Transportation II
- Overview of Transportation
- Basic concepts of pavement analysis and design
- Basic concepts of traffic engineering
- Pavements
- Cement as a pavement material
- Analysis and design of rigid pavements
- Design of runways, taxiways, apron, etc.
- Construction of rigid pavements
- Quality control in pavement construction
- Comparative study of rigid versus flexible pavements
- Modern materials in pavements
- Traffic Engineering
- Theory of uninterrupted and interrupted traffic flow
- Delay analysis
- Capacity and level-of-service analysis for various facilities
- Design of traffic facilities (like, expressways, channelization, unsignalized and signalized intersections, airport circulation, parking facilities, etc.)
- Travel demand analysis and transportation planning
- The planning process
- Sequential demand analysis
- Models of trip generation, distribution, traffic assignment, and modal split
- Transportation economics