BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| URBAN SYSTEMS AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT (TURKISH, THESIS) | |||||
| Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| KSU5417 | Road Safety Engineering | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Basic information
| 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: | Giving the following abilities: -Definition of road safety problem -Understanding accident statistics -Improving accident precautions -Evaluating safety improving programmes |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Traffic safety is one of the important engineering issue in the world. This subject aims to provide a background about this issue. Also it provides a very important alternative to students that want to have expertise about road safety. |
Course Content
| Description of the safety issue, optimum standard concept in safety, programs for safety amendment, and their applications, driver’s expectations in safety design. Determination of inappropriate designs and the methodologies utilized for determination. Design principles in beveling. Design of cross-sectional elements considering safety principles. Design of intersections. Operational analysis. Design measures for illumination systems. Railway crossings. Traffic control and warning requirements. Standards. Measures for safety of road construction and maintenance activities. Traffic signs. Safety principles in the positioning of signs. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Characteristics and importance of road safety problems: evaluation by the phases of national and globally | |
| 2) | Safety management systems | |
| 3) | Human factor in road safety | |
| 4) | Hazardous road cases | |
| 5) | Analyzing and determining the problems of road accident statistics | |
| 6) | Improving of safety precautions | |
| 7) | Road design and safety | |
| 8) | Safety of level and overpass intersections | |
| 9) | Road signalization and lighting | |
| 10) | Safety implementations in road meintenance and construction | |
| 11) | Traffic management | |
| 12) | Trackside design, trackside barriers and crash cushions | |
| 13) | Evaluating of road safety problems | |
| 14) | Future research necessities and general evaluation |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Derste verilen notlar / lecture notes |
| References: | Safer Roads: A Guide to Road Safety Engineering. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, The Handbook of Road Safety Measures, Roadside Design Guide, |
Evaluation System
| 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 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| 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 | ||
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
| 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 |