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CE 453 - Airport/Railroad Planning & Design

Catalog Description

Airport master planning and railroad engineering. Runway configuration, airfield capacity, geometric and terminal layout and design. Railroad capacity, geometric and system layout and design.

3 credit hours (lecture)

Prerequisites

  • ce352

Schedule

Textbooks and Resources

Airport Engineering by N. Ashford, and P. Wright, 3rd Edition, J. Wiley & Son, 1991

Course Objective

To acquaint the student with planning, design and operations of railroad and airports.

Topics

  • (1) Aviation Systems
  • (1) Aircraft performance
  • (1.5) Airport Planning
  • (1) Site Selection
  • (1.5) Airport Configuration
  • (0.5) Obstruction Requirements
  • (1) Capacity Analysis
  • (2) Planning and Design of the Terminal Area
  • (1) Environmental Assessment
  • (0.5) Air Traffic Control
  • (3) Railroad Engineering

    • Professional Component

    This course is an engineering topic course in the Civil Engineering proficiency area of transportation. This course involves engineering design activities.

    Relationship to Program Objectives

    Provide experience in designing, formulating and solving engineering problems in the technical areas of airport and railroads. The course involves a term project that is presented. The design considers the impact of an airport in a global/society context.

    Last update: Thu May 18, 2006 10:40 am by rbennet2

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