Highway Engineering
Instructor: Christoforou Ζοι
Course code: 5706
Semester: 7ο
e-class:
Course content:

  1. Introduction.
  2. Driver, traffic and road characteristics.
  3. Vehicle motion.
  4. Road classification, standards, speeds, and geometric characteristics.
  5. Roadway horizontal and vertical alignment, cross-section design.
  6. Stopping and passing sight distance.
  7. Drainage design.
  8. Grading operations, excavation and embankment, earthwork calculations, Bruckner diagram.


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