Route Surveying

Overview of route surveying, higher surveying, simple horizontal curves, and their importance in civil engineering.

Detailed study of simple, compound, reversed, and spiral curves used in route surveying.

Design and analysis of complex horizontal curves for highways and railways.

Design and analysis of parabolic vertical curves, including crest and sag curves for highway and railway profiles.

Design and analysis of complex vertical curves for highways and railways.

Methods and applications of earthwork profiling, cross-sections, and volume computations.

Advanced applications of Global Positioning Systems, Geographic Information Systems, and Photogrammetry in the planning and design of highways.

Fundamental concepts of geometric highway design, integrating horizontal and vertical alignments with earthwork.