• In Highway Engineering, Elements of typical cross section of road, types of cross

sections. Design speed, lane capacity. Capacity reducing factors. Horizontal and
vertical curves, grade line, super elevation, transition curve, curve widening, sight
distance requirements. Principles of intersection design for at grade and grade
separated intersections. Channelization. Highway construction materials, their
properties and tests. Characteristics of drivers, vehicles and roadways, traffic surveys,
traffic controlling devices, highway illumination, parking and accident studies.
• And in Runway Engineering Airport requirements site selection. Airport classification,
aircraft characteristics, runway length and runway configuration. Runway lighting,
airport drainage system.
• For Railways, Elements of a track, types of gauges. Types of rail sections, rail joints
creep and wear of rails. Fish plate, bearing plates and checkrails. Types of sleepers,
their merits and demerits, sleeper density, spacing and stiffness of track. Types of
ballast, requirements for good ballast, Renewal of ballast, formation of single and
double track formation failures. Selection of site for a railway station, layout of
stations and yards, points and crossing various, layouts, signaling and inter locking.
Modern methods for construction of tracks, maintenance, tools and organization.