URBAN SYSTEMS AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT (TURKISH, THESIS) | |||||
Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
KSU5335 | Roadside Safety Design and Applications | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | Turkish |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Assist. Prof. NİLGÜN CAMKESEN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The basic goal of this subject is investigating the necessities for providing the high safety level for the vehicles that leaves the highway any of reason. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Learning of the pheses of a safety trackside design, definition of precautions step by step, related tests in the world, guardrail, related materials and their usage details. |
Highway safety, parking safety, related engineering precautions, understanding to does for reducing collision effects, presenting detailed information about guardrails, collision tests, worlwide standards related to collision tests, researching road safety by examling of Tukey and worldwide implementations. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to trackside safety | |
2) | trackside accidents | |
3) | trackside safety design | |
4) | trackside safety literature studies | |
5) | clean trackside | |
6) | breakable posts | |
7) | guardrails | |
8) | vehice collision tests | |
9) | midterm exam | |
10) | EU Norms at collision tests | |
11) | EN1317-2 Guardrail collision tests | |
12) | EN1317-3 EN1317-4 EN1317-5 | |
13) | trackside safety in Turkey | |
14) | final exam |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Derste verilen notlar / Lecture notes |
References: | http://www.in.gov/indot/files/RoadsideSafety.pdf http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/pubs/semisesq/session1/wendling/index.htm http://ec.europa.eu/transport/roadsafety_library/publications/riser_guidelines_for_roadside_infrastructure_on_new_and_existing_roads.pdf http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/bookstore/pdfs/volume3-errata-dec09.pdf |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 10 | % 0 |
Quizzes | 4 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 5 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 10 | 6 | 60 |
Homework Assignments | 5 | 20 | 100 |
Quizzes | 4 | 10 | 40 |
Midterms | 1 | 30 | 30 |
Final | 1 | 40 | 40 |
Total Workload | 270 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Improving and enhancing information in expertise level on the concept of transportation licence level abilities in terms of transportation department and related departments. | 5 |
2) | Having detailed information about current technics, methods and their constraints in transportation engineering. | 4 |
3) | Estabilishing engineering problems, improving methods for solution, implementing new methods in solutions | 4 |
4) | Completing and implementing information with limited datas, integrating informations of different discipline datas | |
5) | Estabilishing engineering problems, improving methods for solution, implementing new methods in solutions | |
6) | New/origin idea and method implementing, improving new solutions in system, part and process designs. | |
7) | Understanding process and results of studies, presenting the datas oral and written in related department on national and international scales, understanding a foreign language, having speaking, writing and reading level at least Europan Language Portfolio B2. | |
8) | Understanding social and environmental phases of technological implementations. Listing ability of current technics, methods, effects, constraints and results of technological implementations. | |
9) | Considering social-scientific-ethic values in collecting-understanding-implementing-presenting phases and all activities. | |
10) | Having information detailed and deeply by implemented researching in technology, evaluating and implementing of information | |
11) | Developing method for defined technological problems and implementing innovative methods in solutions. | |
12) | Modelling and implementing of experimental investigations, solving of complex cases in this process |