COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN ROAD DESIGN

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5065 URBAN ROAD DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SÜHEYLA PELIN ÇALIŞKANELLI

Offered to

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Course Objective

Courses generally taken into consideration basic principles in the design of local roads networks, techniques, standards will be subject to the principles and practice. Examples of local and universal solution of transportation and traffic problems faced by cities, The effects on these processes of change brought by the changing transportation Technologies,the formation and the structural formation of cities according to national and global scales and structural formations of the road network created by the interactions and integration of planning processes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To classify the geometric characteristics which are needed on urban roadways.
2   To determine matters to be considered in the design of urban road.
3   To analyze the data related to the infrastructure construction of urban roadways.
4   Ability to relate land use, vehicle and road characteristics with operation of roads
5   To interpret an urban roadway example project.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to urban road design
2 Traffic and transportation problems in cities, characteristics of traffic engineering and traffic management studies and their relations
3 Urban transportation planning, land use relations of city roads, determination of assignment subjects
4 Urban road ranking, cross-section and design features of urban roads
5 Designation of transportation routes in city centers, intersection design principles and congestion management
6 Methods of arterial performance measurement
7 Field work
8 Homework presentations
9 Planning and design of pedestrian and bicycle paths
10 Design and planning of parking area
11 Characteristics of public transportation systems, route design features and sections
12 Characteristics of public transportation systems, route design features and sections
13 Project presentations
14 Course evaluation and closing

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
MEYER, M. D.; MILLER, E.J. (2000): Urban Transportation Planning, McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 2nd edition.

ROESS, R. P.; MCSHANE, W. R.; PRASSAS, E. S. (1997): Traffic Engineering, Prentice Hall; 2nd edition.

Materials:
Presentations, course notes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The visual presentations and presentation slides.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-2-3: Consideration with homework and presentations
LO 4-5: Consideration with homework assignments

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. S.Pelin ÇALIŞKANELLI pelin.caliskanelli@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

The course schedule will be announced by the faculty member is created.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Field Study 0 3 0
Preparation for quiz etc. 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparing assignments 2 30 60
Preparing presentations 2 5 10
Field study 1 10 10
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
Final 0 0 0
Midterm 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1343
LO.2444
LO.344
LO.445
LO.5343