COURSE CODE: CVE 409
COURSE TITLE: Highway Engineering
NUMBER OF UNITS: 3 Units
COURSE DURATION: Three hours per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Dr. ABIOLA, Oladapo Samson B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D
E-mail: lolu4dapo@yahoo.com
Office Location: College of Engineering Building
Other Lecturers: Nil
COURSE SYNOPSIS:
Soil engineering aspects of highways. Railways and airfields. Highway geometrics. Pavement structure and design. Pavement materials and laboratory tests.
Fundamentals of traffic engineering. Traffic studies and analysis; origin – destination survey and traffic counts. Route surveying and planning. Geometric design of routes (road, railways, tunnels, etc; straight, curved, super-elevation, transition curves, etc.