Transportation Engineering

Transportation Engineering is a free Civil Engineering handbook with course notes, diagrams, equations and study material. Use this digital reference book for Diploma, BE, BTech and related engineering courses.

Learn about transportation infrastructure, railway engineering, rolling stock, tracks, signalling, electrification, tunnels and passenger facilities. Useful for exams, viva, interviews, field studies and quick revision.

RELATED BRANCHES
Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Railway Engineering, Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering.

TRANSPORTATION FIELDS & PLANNING FACTORS
Highway engineering; railroad engineering; port and harbor engineering; airport engineering; pipeline engineering. Planning considerations include population, land use, transport facilities and services, economic activity, travel patterns and volumes, regional financial resources, community values and expectations, and laws and ordinances.

69 LISTED COURSE TOPICS

STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR & VIBRATIONS
1. Column Buckling
2. FEM for Bending and Buckling
3. Axial Vibration of Slender Bars
4. Torsional Vibration
5. Bending Vibration of Beams
6. Damping in Vibrations

RAILWAY SYSTEMS & ROLLING STOCK
7. Introduction
8. Station Layout
9. Railway Rolling Stock: Definition
10. Evolution of Steam Traction
11. Introduction of Electric Traction
12. Evolution of Wheel Layout
13. Carbody Structures
14. Metro and Light Rail Train Performance
15. Manufacturing Methods
16. Rolling Stock Maintenance
17. Maintenance Management
18. Needs of the Maintainer

TRACKS, SLEEPERS & POINTS
19. Sleeper Functions
20. Monobloc Prestressed Concrete Sleepers
21. Origin and Development of Railway Tracks
22. Track Ballast
23. Rail Fastenings, Baseplates and Pads
24. Rails
25. Introduction to Track Welding
26. Site Welding for Continuous Welded Rail (CWR)
27. Crossing Design and Manufacture
28. Point Driving, Locking and Detection
29. Paved Concrete Track

EARTHWORKS, BRIDGES & TUNNELS
30. Earthwork Stability, Drainage and Fencing
31. Detecting Earthwork Movement
32. Trackbed Drainage
33. Side or Cess Drains
34. Railway Fencing
35. Early Railway Bridges, Structures and Materials
36. Reinforced Concrete Structures
37. Prestressed Concrete
38. Brick and Masonry Structures
39. Structural Maintenance
40. History of Tunnelling
41. Tunnel Construction Methods
42. Tunnel Linings

ELECTRIFICATION & SIGNALLING
43. Electricity for Railway Traction
44. AC Supply Connections
45. Low-Voltage DC Systems
46. Effects of Electrification
47. Early Railway Signalling
48. Track Circuits
49. Minimum Headways
50. Subsidiary Signals
51. Transmission-Based Signalling
52. Protection Against Signals Passed at Danger

OPERATIONS, PASSENGER SYSTEMS & SERVICES
53. Systems and Communications
54. Human Processes
55. Interface Between Operations and Engineering
56. Railway Systems Pyramid
57. Public Address and Information Systems
58. Telephones and Radio
59. Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)
60. Vertical Transportation
61. Passenger Flow at Escalators and Lifts
62. Types of Escalators
63. Compact Escalators
64. Draught Relief
65. Types of Modern Lifts
66. Inspection and Maintenance
67. Pumps
68. Railway Ventilation Problems
69. Air Movement

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• Course-wise notes with a simple reading interface
• Mobile-friendly technical content
• Quick reference for students and professionals

Revise railway transport systems, infrastructure and operations with this free Transportation Engineering ebook.

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