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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS CIE 5054 TRAFFIC - II COMPULSORY 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

PROFESSOR SERHAN TANYEL

Offered to

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Course Objective

In this course it is aimed to get students to comprehend principles of designing especially intersections and other highway facilities and to analyze their performances

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To comprehend basic principles of traffic management. 2   To calculate performances of intersections and other highway facilities 3   To question the relation between driver, vehicle and road. 4   To design geometric elements of roads and intersections. 5   To investigate and analyze a highway arterial as a whole.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Investigation of vehicle movements at intersections 2 Introduction to intersection design, homework assignment 3 Basic principles of at grade intersection design 4 Unsignalized intersections 5 Roundabouts 6 Home-work presentations 7 First mid-term exam 8 Signalized intersections, homework assignment 9 Optimization of signalized intersections 10 Delay and queue length 11 Principles of designing closely-spaced intersections 12 Performance analysis of an intersection system 13 Second mid-term exam 14 Home-work presentaitons

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): May, A.D. : Traffic Flow Fundementals, Prentice Hall Inc., 1990. Supplementary Book(s): Tunç, A. : Trafik Mühendisliği ve Uygulamaları, ASIL Yayın-Dağıtım,2003. References: Materials: Course presentations

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Course presentations, numerical applications, home-works and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1 2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2 3 ASG ASSIGNMENT 4 FIN FINAL EXAM 5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 + MTE 2/2 * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50 6 RST RESIT 7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 + MTE 2/2 * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1, LO4 and LO5 will be evaluated by using mid-term and final exams. LO 2-5 will be evaluated by using home-works and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance will be considered in the evaluation.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

serhan.tanyel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 12 3 36 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48 Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20 Preparation for final exam 1 15 15 Preparing assignments 2 25 50 Preparing presentations 2 10 20 Final 1 3 3 Midterm 2 2 4 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 196

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 LO.1 2 3 5 2 LO.2 5 5 3 LO.3 4 3 4 2 3 LO.4 3 3 2 4 5 LO.5 4 2 5 4