Unit Profile Correction added on 30-04-20
The end of term examination was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. An alternative assessment item has been arranged for the final examination and details are available on the unit's Moodle page. The learning outcomes assessed are unchanged.
Overview
Advanced Transportation Engineering Design will prepare you to analyse and solve complex transportation problems. You will develop strategies for managing and controlling traffic, identifying safety issues and recommending solutions. You will also analyse and design intersections using the appropriate software. In this unit, you will apply design codes to solve common design problems involving intersection design and pavement design in an ethical and professional manner by considering stakeholders and sustainability requirements. You are required to work, learn and communicate effectively in a professional manner, independently and in project teams. If you are enrolled in distance mode, you will be required to attend a compulsory residential school during the term.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Anti-Requisite: ENEC14016 Traffic and Transportation Engineering
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Unit Evaluation
The tutorial and workshop activities were acknowledged to aid learning. This involve hands-on demonstrations on worked examples and suitable exercise on the Industry based software.
The tutorial and workshop sessions will continue to be implemented. The hands-on demonstrations of worked examples will be continued.
Feedback from Student Unit Evaluation
The Moodle site format with Icon to aid navigation was reported as the best aspect of the unit. It was graded 4.8 out of 5.
The format of the Moodle site with Icon aiding navigation will be implemented across all units delivered by the lecturer.
Feedback from Student Unit Evaluation
The printed formulas sheet provided in the examination was not very legible in some instances.
Work with the examination office to preview the required formula sheet. This is to ensure legibility after printing on coloured paper.
- Analyse traffic flows and describe the effects of key traffic flow parameters and their inter-relationships
- Apply systematic approaches to conduct capacity analysis and level of service of roadways and intersections
- Evaluate the pavement sublayer materials properties using appropriate Australian guidelines
- Design structural road pavements using appropriate Australian guidelines
- Formulate, plan, manage and complete projects individually or in teams in an ethical and professional manner considering stakeholder requirements and principals of sustainable development
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication and leadership.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Portfolio - 30% | ||||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 30% | ||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 10% | ||||||
| 4 - Examination - 30% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
| 4 - Research | ||||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Portfolio - 30% | ||||||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 30% | ||||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 10% | ||||||||
| 4 - Examination - 30% | ||||||||
Textbooks
Traffic Engineering
5th Edition (2018)
Authors: Roger P. Roess, Elena S. Prassas, Elena S. Prassas
Pearson
ISBN: 9780134599717
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
k.nepal@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
TRAFFIC FLOW FUNDAMENTALS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter
A Guide to Traffic Management Part 2: Traffic Theory (AGTM02)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
CAPACITY AND LEVEL OF SERVICE CONCEPTS
Chapter
Highway Capacity Manual (2016) Chapters 4, 5 & 10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
FREEWAYS AND MULTILANE ROADS
Chapter
Highway Capacity Manual (2016) (Chapters 12-14)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
TWO-LANE TWO-WAY ROADS
Chapter
Highway Capacity Manual (2016) (Chapter 15)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Traffic Engineering Portfolio: Quiz#1
Module/Topic
UNSIGNALISED INTERSECTIONS
Chapter
Highway Capacity Manual (2016) (Chapter 20)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
ROUNDABOUTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS
Chapter
Highway Capacity Manual (2016) (Chapters 22-23)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Traffic Engineering Portfolio: Quiz#2
Module/Topic
PAVEMENT DESIGN INPUT PARAMETERS (1)
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
PAVEMENT MATERIALS
Chapter
A Guide to Pavement Technology: Part 2 (AGPT02)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS
Chapter
A Guide to Pavement Technology: Part 2 (AGPT02)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
RIGID PAVEMENTS
Chapter
A Guide to Pavement Technology: Part 2 (AGPT02)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
PAVEMENT OVERLAY
Chapter
A Guide to Pavement Technology: Part 2 (AGPT02)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Pavement Design Portfolio: Quiz
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Practical Assessment Report Due: Week 12 Friday (5 June 2020) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Portfolio
This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes 1, 2, 5 and 6. It contains two quizzes and tasks and covers Week 1 to Week 6 learning resources. Details of the tasks will be provided in Moodle.
Week 7 Friday (1 May 2020) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 9 Friday (15 May 2020)
(100%) Content, presentation and layout includes:
· the accuracy and relevance of information
· application of knowledge
· language and grammar used in answering questions
· proper referencing of sources of information (when referencing, Harvard style should be used.)
· equations, images, data and tables, and the quality of presentation and layout.
- Analyse traffic flows and describe the effects of key traffic flow parameters and their inter-relationships
- Apply systematic approaches to conduct capacity analysis and level of service of roadways and intersections
- Formulate, plan, manage and complete projects individually or in teams in an ethical and professional manner considering stakeholder requirements and principals of sustainable development
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication and leadership.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
2 Portfolio
This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes 3, 4, 5 and 6. It contains a quiz and tasks and covers Week 7 to Week 11 learning resources. Details of the tasks will be provided in Moodle.
Week 12 Friday (5 June 2020) 5:00 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Friday (12 June 2020)
(100%) Content, presentation and layout includes:
· the accuracy and relevance of information
· application of knowledge
· language and grammar used in answering questions
· proper referencing of sources of information (when referencing, Harvard style should be used.)
· equations, images, data and tables, and the quality of presentation and layout.
- Evaluate the pavement sublayer materials properties using appropriate Australian guidelines
- Design structural road pavements using appropriate Australian guidelines
- Formulate, plan, manage and complete projects individually or in teams in an ethical and professional manner considering stakeholder requirements and principals of sustainable development
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication and leadership.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
3 Practical Assessment
Week 12 Friday (5 June 2020) 5:00 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Friday (12 June 2020)
(100%) Content, presentation and layout includes:
· the accuracy and relevance of information
· application of knowledge
· language and grammar used in answering questions
· proper referencing of sources of information (when referencing, Harvard style should be used.)
· equations, images, data and tables, and the quality of presentation and layout.
- Evaluate the pavement sublayer materials properties using appropriate Australian guidelines
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
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