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Course Credit	3.0
Course ECTS Credit	4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Level of Course	Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course	Compulsory
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?	Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course	To introduce methods used in the design and implementation of highway projects.
Course Content	Introduction, definitions of highway components, characteristics of road users and vehicles, vehicle movements, general characteristics of highway traffic, highway capacity, selection of highway geometric standards, location survey, horizontal curves and super-elevation, transition curves, road profile and vertical curves, planning of urban roads, intersections, highways drainage.

Learning Outcomes

Competent knowledge of mathematics, science and technology, and civil engineering; ability to apply this knowledge to engineering solutions.
Skills to design and conduct experiments, collect data, analyze and interpret results.
Ability to design a system, a component or a process in a satisfactory manner considering realistic constraints and conditions such as economics, environmental issues, social, health, politics, ethics, security and sustainability; knowledge of project management and applications of risk management.
An ability to function within disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams as well as an individual.
Skills to determine, identify, formulate, and solve complex civil engineering problems; ability to select and apply apropriate analysis and modelling methods.
Determine, if available, the proper professional computer software to be used to analyze and design civil engineering structures.
An understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities.
An ability to effectively communicate in Turkish and in at least a foreign language; knowledge of a foreign language.
Knowledge of the impacts of civil engineering applications within a global and societal context; entrepreneurship, innovativeness, and awareness of sustainable development.
A recognition of the need for life-long learning; ability to reach knowledge, to follow advances in science and technology and to consistently renew oneself.
A knowledge of contemporary issues; an awareness of legal consequences of civil engineering solutions and implementations.
An ability to select, to improve and to utilize modern techniques and tools for civil engineering applications; an ability to efficiently utilize information and communication technologies.
Ability to work effectively in disciplinary and multidisciplinary teams; ability to work individually.
Awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning; the ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology, and to constantly renew itself.
Ability to communicate effectively in Turkish, both orally and in writing; at least one foreign language knowledge; ability to write effective reports and understand written reports, to prepare design and production reports, to make effective presentations, to give clear and understandable instructions.
Ability to design, conduct, collect, analyze, and interpret experiments for studying complex engineering problems or discipline-specific research topics

Weekly Course Subjects

1	Introduction, definitions of highway components
2	Characteristics of road users and vehicles, vehicle movements - 1st classroom practice
3	Characteristics of highway traffic, highway capacity - 2nd classroom practice
4	Holiday
5	Classification of roads, selecting highway geometric standards, location survey - 3rd classroom practice
6	Horizontal curves - 4th classroom practice - 1st explanation for homework assignment and handing out topographic map sheets
7	Superelevation - 5th classroom practice
8	Transition curves - 2nd explanation for homework assignment
9	Mid-term examination
10	Superelevation with transition curve - 6th classroom practice - Interim handing in homework assignment
11	Road profile and vertical curves - Returning marked homework assignment
12	7th classroom practice - 3rd explanation for homework assignment
13	Planning of urban roads and intersections
14	Highway drainage - Final submission of homework assignment file

Resources

1-Introduction to Highway Engineering (Lecture notes), Dr. Mustafa Sinan Yardım, 2012.
2-A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, AASHTO, 2001.
3-Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2000), Transportation Research Board, 2000.
4-Karayolu Mühendisliği / Highway Engineering, Nadir Yayla, Birsen Yayınevi, 2002.
5-Karayolu İnşaatında Uygulama ve Projelendirme / Higway Constructions Design and Application, İlhan Sütaş, Güven Öztaş, 1986
6-Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook, R. Lamm, B. Psarianos, T. Mailaender, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
7-Introduction to Transportation Engineering, James K. Banks, McGraw-Hill, 2002.

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