CVEN 3401
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
COURSE DETAILS Units of Credit 6 Contact hours 5 hours per week Lecture Lecture Tutorial Monday, Friday, Friday, 9.00 – 11.00 9.00 – 10.00 10.00 – 12.00 Mathews Theatre A Mathews Theatre A Mat 230, Mat 107, Mat 309, MatSc G10, TETB G16, TETB2 G17, Quad G044, Quad G045, Quad G031, CivEng 102
Lecturer 1: Prof Travis Waller, s.waller@unsw.edu.au Room CE 110 Lecturer 2: Dr Upali Vandebona, u.vandebona@unsw.edu.au Room CE 105 Lecturer 3: Dr Babak Shahbodagh, b.shahbodagh@unsw.edu.au Room CE507 Teaching assistant: Dr David Rey, d.rey@unsw.edu.au Course coordinator: Upali Vandebona INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE This is the first introductory course into the discipline of transport engineering as part of the broad field of civil and environmental engineering. An outline of the field of transport engineering and its relationships with other engineering and non-engineering disciplines is provided within the course. The basic concepts and terminology of the discipline is introduced. The course comprises of two strands. The first strand of the course covers the first 4 weeks of the session. This strand is concerned with the analysis, design and evaluation of traffic and network systems, including basics of the four step transport planning process. The aim of this strand is to learn the basics related to methods applicable in transport planning and traffic engineering profession. The methods learned in this strand will be relevant in urban transport planning as well as regional planning context. The lectures and tutorial work will provide an opportunity to learn engineering properties of traffic streams along with relevant measurement and network analysis techniques. The second strand of the course will be run from week 5 to week 12. This strand is subdivided into two components. Aim of the first component is to give students a brief overview of the