Highway Engineering: Highway Design and Facilities

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Good highways are so interwoven with every phase of our daily activities that it is almost impossible to imagine what life would be like without them. A well-designed highway facility provides consistent information to the road user, assures a safe facility for the most vulnerable user of the system, and conforms to context-sensitive placement issues. This 6-hour interactive online course describes the criteria, standards, and engineering procedures used to design principal elements of the highway alignment, highway cross sections, and adjacent roadside environment.
This is the fourth course in a series on highway engineering.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you will

Be familiar with the basics of general highway design, and how it forms the basis for further understanding in specific cases and design elements.
Learn how cross-sectional elements are created, and why.
Understand the mechanics of roadway alignment
Use formulas to calculate sight distance
Have a knowledge of how to apply the principals of special design
Learn about the new computer applications which have revolutionized the process of highway design.
Understand the need for good roadside design, and how it is implemented
Be famliar with the planning and construction stages of graded intersections
Be familair with grade separations, and what they mean to vehicle characteristics
Understand the mechanics of and the importance of good parking design
Learn about highway mass transit, and the important concessions a designer must make in designing effective roadway for this mode of transportation

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Paul H. Wright and Karen Dixon

Dr. Karen Dixon is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering at Oregon State University. She has her Ph.D., Masters and Bachelors in Civil Engineering. Professor Dixon's interests include transportation design, operations, and safety with particular emphasis on creating a transportation infrastructure that serves all prospective users. Dr. Paul Wright is widely recognized as an expert in highway safety.