Unit of Study CIVL2008 Traffic and Road Safety Engineering (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Science and Engineering
Placement

No

Enrolment information

This unit requires essential skills from earlier units, including knowledge of basic statistics and probability distributions, employing engineering processes to solve real world engineering problems and report writing.

Unit description

Introduces the concepts of traffic engineering and explains the fundamental principles of traffic flow theory and analysis. Develops the ability to conduct traffic capacity analysis for various types of roads and intersections. An understanding of road safety is also developed.

Unit content

Road Safety Audits
Fundamental Principles of Traffic Flow
Types of Intersections
Intersection Capacity and Level of Service Analysis
Highway Capacity and Level of Service Analysis
Traffic Impact Assessments

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Online	Term5	Term5

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate an in-depth understanding of traffic engineering, and related professional and ethical responsibilities including road safety, and the contextual factors which influence decision making within the discipline

analyse traffic and transport systems including traffic aspects such as travel demand, existing traffic volumes, traffic generation and distribution, intersection analysis, road capacity analysis, degree of saturation and level of service

use traffic analysis software to analyse traffic engineering problems

identify, formulate and solve traffic problems using established traffic engineering methods, creativity, innovation and pre-emptive approaches.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Calculations	30%
Calculations	30%
Report	40%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Fee information

Domestic

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