CVEN 456/766
HIGHWAY DESIGN
Instructor: Dominique Lord
Room 301A (CE/TTI Tower)
Phone: (979) 458-3949
d-lord@tamu.edu
https://ceprofs.civil.tamu.edu/dlord/CVEN_456_Course_Material.htm
Spring 2015
TEXTBOOK
• Required Text: Can be found at
AcademicPub.com:
http://academicpub.sharedbook.com/serve/ac/acapub/stud
ent_product_page.html?slug=1421083553_83_635
(you’ll need to register to access this link)
eBook: $49.90 (Need to install Adobe Digital Editions, 2nd
Ed) B&W Hard Copy + eBook: $78.32 (Color version is
available, but is not needed)
I suggest that you by the hard copy, since you will need it
for the labs and capstone project.
TEXTBOOK
• Highly Recommended:
– A Policy on Geometric Design of Highway and
Streets, 5th or 6th Ed., American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), 2004
or 2011 (First four chapters included in Ebook)
($225+)
– Schoon, J.G. Geometric Design Projects for
Highways: An Introduction, 2nd Edition, ASCE,
Reston, Va., 1999. (First three chapters included in
Ebook)
– Roadway Design Manual, Texas Department of
Transportation, Austin, Tx, Revised May 2010
http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/r
dw/rdw.pdf
TEXTBOOK
• Other relevant material:
– Wright, P.H., and Dixon, K. Highway Engineering.
7th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J., 2004.
– Lamm, R., Psarianos, B., and Mailaender, T.,
Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering
Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1999.
– Staplin, L., Lococo, K., Byington, S., and Harkey, D.
Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers
and Pedestrians. U.S.DOT/FHWA Publication No.
FHWA-RD-01-103. Washington, D.C., 2001.
TEXTBOOK
• Other relevant material:
– Fitzpatrick, and Wooldridge, M. NCHRP Synthesis 299,
Recent Geometric Design Research for
Improved Safety and Operations, Transportation
Research Board, 2001.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nch
rp_syn_299.pdf
– The Access Board, Accessible Rights-of-Way: A
Design Guide, 2002. www.access-board.gov
– FHWA, Flexibility in Highway Design,
Washington, D.C., 2005.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/flex/index.htm
OBJECTIVES
• Provide fundamental engineering knowledge for
designing rural and urban highways
• Show fundamental principles and theory
governing the design of highways
• Apply these principles using real concrete
examples
• Apply the skills and knowledge learned in this
course in practical applications (private & public)
COURSE OUTLINE
• Week 1: Course Outline/Civil 3D seminar
(Mr. Hadi K. K.)
• Week 2: /Highway Functional
Classification
• Week 3: Design Controls
• Week 4: Route Selection
• Week 5: Earth Work/Costs (Guest
lecturer)
• Week 6: Highway Design Process
COURSE OUTLINE
• Week 7: Sight Distance
• Week 8: Horizontal Alignment (1st
Presentation)
• Week 9: Vertical Alignment
• Week 10: Cross Section Design (Guest
Lecturer)
• Week 11: Intersections
COURSE OUTLINE
• Week 12: Highway
Characteristics/Environmental Issues
(Guest Lecturer)
• Week 13: Time devoted to capstone
project
• Week 14: Review (2nd Presentation)
• Term Project Due on Wednesday, May 6th
• Term Paper (graduate students)
Wednesday, May 6th
Laboratories
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Thursdays 2:20 – 5:10 pm
Team of 3-4 people (1 group per table)
Software: Civil 3D
Hand-written and computer output
designs
• Professional reports
Term Project
• Same team as for the laboratories
• Software: Civil 3D
• Covers all aspects of highway design and
operations
• Project(s) to be determined
• Practicing Engineers will provide mentorship
– 1 per group
• Computer output designs and technical report
• Two presentations (mid-term and at the end)
GRADING
• CVEN 456:
– Labs: 30% (4-5)
– Term Project: 55%
– Assignments: 15% (4-5)
• CVEN 766:
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Labs: 30% (4-5)
Term Project: 55%
Assignments: 15% (4-5)
Term paper: 10%
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
• Office Hours:
– Wednesday 1:00 pm – 3:10 pm
– Thursday: 11:00 am – 12:10 pm
• I may take attendance (random)
• Must have a valid reason to miss a class (See
TAMU guidelines)
• You are responsible for the material covered in
class and in the Ebook/textbook
• Any modification to the content of the course
will be discussed in class