COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRAFFIC

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INŞ 4081 TRAFFIC ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SERHAN TANYEL

Offered to

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

Course Objective

This course aims to provide the knowledge about traffic engineering and its importance, to give information about traffic management methods, description of people, vehicle and road characteristics and relationships and to provide experience for the evaluation of traffic surveys and data.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to collect traffic flow data
2   To be able to calculate the characteristics of traffic flow elements
3   To be able to analyze a transportation facility (road segment, intersection etc.) from different points of view
4   To be able to interpret the problems of a highway segment/intersection
5   To be able to report and present the related calculations and discussions

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

INŞ 3025 - TRANSPORTION ENGINEERING I

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to traffic engineering, characteristics of highway traffic problems, sections of traffic engineering, traffic rules
2 Introduction to traffic engineering (cont.), control devices, introduction to traffic management
3 Vehicle operation characteristics, movement theory, acceleration, braking distance
4 Economy, fuel and operation characteristics, effect of sight on vehicles
5 Road use, sight, hearing and adaptation to environment, environmental factors
6 Speed, classification of speed, measurement of spot speed and its statistical mean, running speed and overall speed
7 Traffic volume and traffic density
8 Speed, volume and density relations
9 Traffic counts, volume counts, pedestrian counts
10 MID-TERM EXAM
11 Traffic counts (cont.), cordon counts, origin-destination counts, gravity counts
12 AADT and HTC concepts
13 Student presentations
14 Evaluations of applications in practice

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):

Trafik Mühendisliği ve Uygulamaları, Argun Tunç, Asil Yayın Dağıtım, ISBN:975878403, Istanbul, 2003.

Materials:

Presentations, course notes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Applications, homework, presentation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1 and LO 5: it is evaluated by homework and presentation
LO 2-4: it is evaluated by homework, mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Serhan TANYEL: serhan.tanyel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced after the course schedule is determined.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 77

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.15
LO.253
LO.344
LO.4543
LO.544544

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