CVE 4302

HIGHWAY & TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

Course Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Describe the basic concepts related to highway
materials, location survey, planning, construction
and maintenance of highways.
2. Apply geometric design in highway/road design.
3. Design flexible pavement based on Arahan Teknik
Jalan and ASSHTO method.
4. Describe the various aspects of traffic engineering
studies
*Highlighted in red = topic learning outcome

REFERENCES?

REFERENCES?
1. Fred. L. Mannering, Walter P. Kilareski, Scott S.
Washburn, (2012), Principles of Highway Engineering
and Traffic Analysis, 5rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
New York.
2. Mallick, Rajib Basu, and Tahar El-Korchi. (2013),
Pavement Engineering. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis.
3. Paul H. Wright, Karen Dixon, Michael Meyer, (2004),
Highway Engineering, 7th ed., John Wiley & Son Inc.,
New York.

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING

SIMPLE? EASY?

Earth Road

subgrade
soil

Gravel Road
aggregates

subgrade soil

Flexible Pavements
Hot-Mix Asphalt Concrete
Distribute loads through
layers to subgrade
Highest quality materials
near surface
Guiding Principle
Enough total thickness
to protect subgrade
Enough surface
thickness to prevent
fatigue cracking

Asphaltic concrete
Dense graded
(AC10, AC14, AC28)
Gap graded
(SMA14, SMA20)
Open graded
(PAG A, PAG B)

Flexible Pavements

Asphaltic Concrete
(failure)

Rigid Pavements
Portland Cement Concrete
Pavements
Highly rigid

Distribute loads through

bending action over large
area of soil
Must consider strength of
concrete

Concrete Pavements

Concrete
Pavement

Interlocking Block Pavement

Edge restraint

Blocks

Jointing
sand

Bedding
sand

Road base
Sub-base
subgrade

Interlocking Block Pavement

Interlocking Block Pavement

MALAYSIAN ROAD SYSTEM

Five categories based on funds for construction and
maintenance for administration purpose:
1. Federal Road connects entry points and major cities
2. Toll Road alternative, design, built & operates
3. State Road providing intra-state travel
4. Municipal/City Council including built by developer
5. Other Roads jalan kampung by district office from
state funds

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Road Classification
Two classification for geometric design purpose:
Urban - U
Rural R

Subdivided into six hierarchy

i.e. R1/U1 and R1a/U1a to R6/U6 according to traffic,
speed, and access control

Road Classification
R1/U1

R2/U2

R3/U3

Lowest geometric design standards

One-way traffic
Eg: entrance to restricted area od low-cost housing
ADT < 350
Low geometric standards for two way flow with noncontrol access
Applied only to local traffic with low volumes of
commercial traffic
Eg: minor roads and local streets
ADT = 150 - 1000
Low geometric standards and serves mainly local
traffic with partial or no access control
Eg: Secondary roads, collector or major local street
ADT = 1000 - 3000

Road Classification
R4/U4

medium geometric standards with partial access

control
Eg: Primary, secondary roads, minor arterial and
major collector roads
ADT = 3000 10,000

R5/U5

high geometric standards with partial access control

Eg: Primary and arterial roads
ADT > 10,000

R6/U6

highest geometric standards with full access control

Eg: rural and urban expressways
ADT > 10,000

Road Signage

Road Numbering

MAY THIS KNOWLEDGE BE APPLIED

ON THE RIGHTFUL COURSE, GOD WILLING