Introduction to Transportation

Engineering

Tom V. Mathew and KV Krishna Rao

NPTEL Web Course

Transportation Systems Engineering

Civil Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
October 19, 2006
Contents

1 Test 4
1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Some tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Bibliography 6

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List of Figures

1.1 A plot of sin function 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.2 A plot of sin(x) and cos(x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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List of Tables

1.1 IRC Values for camber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.2 IRC Specification for carriage way width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Chapter 1

Test

1.1 Overview
This is a sample chapter written for demonstration purpose only. This is a sample chapter written for demon-
stration purpose only. This is a sample chapter written for demonstration purpose only. I have included a graph
here. See Figure 1.1.
This is the new figure

1.2 Some tables

Some tables are included here. For example Table 1.1 and Table 1.2 are seen.

1.3 References
Some references I would like to include

• This is taken from a book ([16]).

Example

sin(x*x+y*y)

0.81
0.6
0.4
0.2
-0.20
-0.4
-0.6
-0.8
-1
4
3
2
1
0
Y axis 4
-1 3
2
-2 1
0
-3 -1
-2
-4 -3 X axis
-4

Figure 1.1: A plot of sin function 5

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sin(x)
cos(x)
0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2

-0.2

-0.4

-0.6

-0.8

-1
-10 -5 0 5 10

Figure 1.2: A plot of sin(x) and cos(x)

Table 1.1: IRC Values for camber

Surface Heavy Light
type rain rain
Concrete/Bituminous 2% 1.7 %
Gravel/WBM 3% 2.5 %
Earthen 4% 3.0 %

Table 1.2: IRC Specification for carriage way width

Single lane 3.75
Two lane, no kerbs 7.0
Two lane, raised kerbs 7.5
Intermediate carriage 5.5
Multi-lane 3.5

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• This is taken from a book ([14]).

• This is taken from a paper ([1]).

• These are taken from a these sources ([15],[13]).

• For further reading refer to the papers by Daganzo ( [3] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [2] [12] [4] [11] [9] )

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[3] Daganzo, C. F. A finite difference approximation for the kinematic wave model. Trans. Res.(submitted
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[4] Daganzo, C. F. Properties of link travel time functions under dynamic loads. Tech. Rep. UCB-ITS-
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[6] Daganzo, C. F. The cell transmission model, part II: Network traffic. Transportation Research Part B
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[7] Daganzo, C. F. A finite difference approximation of the kinematic wave model of traffic flow. Trans-
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[15] Ortuzar, J. D., and Willumnsen, L. G. Modeling Transport. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1994.

[16] Papacostas, C. S. Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering. Prentice-Hall, New Delhi, 1987.