421-447 Transport Engineering

At the conclusion of this subject students should have an understanding of fundamentals of traffic engineering; an appreciation of the role of engineering in the transport planning process an awareness of processes involved in the design of road and transport networks; and an ability to perform such designs.

Topics covered include transport systems, the transport planning process, traffic survey methods, traffic flow theory, capacity of unsignalised intersections, traffic management and transport models; and residential area design, traffic signal timing analysis and geometric design of roads.

One 3-hour written examination (60%), two written assignments each with a maximum of 3000 words or equivalent (40%).