Road Conditions & Traffic Safety
Description: The discipline allows you to gain the knowledge necessary for: determining the main indicators and characteristics of road transport work; features of the road as a transport structure; patterns of traffic flows in real road conditions, solving specific tasks to ensure road safety.
Amount of credits: 6
Пререквизиты:
- Introduction to Engineering
Course Workload:
| Types of classes | hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 30 |
| Practical works | 30 |
| Laboratory works | |
| SAWTG (Student Autonomous Work under Teacher Guidance) | 30 |
| SAW (Student autonomous work) | 90 |
| Course Project | |
| Form of final control | Exam |
| Final assessment method | Studying the course involves completing a course project |
Component: Component by selection
Cycle: Profiling disciplines
Goal
- целью изучения дисциплины является формирование у студентов знаний и их использование в дальнейшей практической деятельности по организации обследования автомобильных дорог; оценке эксплуатационных показателей дорог, режимов и безопасности движения транспортных потоков; разработке комплексных мероприятий по повышению трнаспортно-эксплуатационных качеств дорог и безопасности движения.
Objective
- The objectives of the discipline study are to familiarize with the transport and operational characteristics of roads, methods for assessing road performance and identifying dangerous areas and ways to improve traffic safety on them.
Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding
- Knowledge of the main indicators and characteristics of the road's transport operation; the specifics of the road's operation as a transport structure; the patterns of traffic flows in real road conditions.
Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding
- The application of theoretical knowledge in solving specific tasks to ensure road safety.
Learning outcome: formation of judgments
- The ability to use theoretical knowledge to create conditions conducive to improving the efficiency of roads
Learning outcome: communicative abilities
- Achieving the level of requirements for the qualification characteristics of a specialist to the knowledge and skills dictated by professional activity in the field of constructive and organizational measures.
Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities
- Mastering the skills of acquiring new specialized knowledge necessary for daily professional activities and continuing education at the Master's degree
Teaching methods
1. In order to implement a competence-based approach to bachelor's degree training, it is envisaged that active and interactive forms of teaching in the discipline "Road conditions and traffic safety" will be widely used in the educational process. 2. Modern educational technologies are focused on individualization, distance learning and variability of the educational process, academic mobility of students, regardless of age and level of education. The following set of educational technologies is designed to implement these guidelines: 1. Technologies of supportive learning (traditional learning) or productive learning technologies (lecture technologies): explanatory and illustrative learning, technology of multi-level learning, technology of modular learning, integral, critical learning. 2. Technologies of developing learning: Technology of developing students' critical thinking, Technology of educational discussion. 3. Technologies based on the activation and intensification of students' activities: Technology for the intensification of learning based on schematic and iconic models of educational material. 4. Technologies based on the effectiveness of management and organization of the educational process: Technology of individualization of learning, Collective way of learning, Group technologies, Computer learning technologies. 5. The proportion of classes conducted in interactive forms is determined by the main purpose (mission) of the program, the specifics of the student body and the content of specific disciplines, and in the educational process as a whole, and amounts to at least 20% of classroom classes. Lecture-type classes for the relevant groups of students do not exceed more than 40% of classroom classes.
Assessment of the student's knowledge
Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.
| Period | Type of task | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 rating | Methods for determining the coefficient of adhesion and assessing the slipperiness of the road surface. | 0-100 |
| Determination and assessment of road surface roughness. | ||
| Determination and assessment of the evenness of the road surface. | ||
| Determination and assessment of the strength of the road clothes of the highway. | ||
| 2 rating | Calculating the speed of single vehicles on the highway and plotting a linear graph of safety coefficients. | 0-100 |
| Assessment of dangerous road sections by plotting accident coefficients. | ||
| Assessment of traffic capacity, load level, and convenience on highways. | ||
| Total control | Exam, Course Project | 0-100 |
The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type
| Type of task | 90-100 | 70-89 | 50-69 | 0-49 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excellent | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | |
| Criteria for assessing students' knowledge | from 90 to 100 points: demonstration of deep and complete knowledge and understanding of the entire volume of the studied material; full understanding of the essence of the concepts, phenomena and patterns under consideration, theories, relationships; the ability to make a complete and correct answer based on the studied material; highlight the main points, independently support the answer with specific examples, facts; independently make a reasoned analysis, generalize conclusions; the ability to establish interdisciplinary (based on previously acquired knowledge) and intrasubject connections. | from 70 to 89 points: knowledge of all the studied program material; a complete and correct answer based on the studied theories; minor errors and omissions in the reproduction of the studied material, definitions of concepts, inaccuracies in the use of scientific terms or in conclusions and generalizations; the material is presented in a certain logical sequence, but one blunt mistake is allowed or not There are more than two shortcomings, and the student can correct them on his own if required or with a little help from the teacher; he has mostly mastered the educational material.; confirms the answer with specific examples. | from 50-69 points: the answer contains significant deviations from the topic; the analysis of the problem provided by the question is fragmentary and incomplete; facts are not always separated from opinions, but the student understands the difference between them. | from 90 to 100 points: demonstration of deep and complete knowledge and understanding of the entire volume of the studied material; full understanding of the essence of the concepts, phenomena and patterns under consideration, theories, relationships; the ability to make a complete and correct answer based on the studied material; highlight the main points, independently support the answer with specific examples, facts; independently make a reasoned analysis, generalize conclusions; the ability to establish interdisciplinary (based on previously acquired knowledge) and intrasubject connections. |
Evaluation form
The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:
- 40% of the examination result;
- 60% of current control result.
The final grade is calculated by the formula:
| FG = 0,6 | MT1+MT2 | +0,4E |
| 2 |
Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;
E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.
Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:
The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:
| Alphabetical grade | Numerical value | Points (%) | Traditional grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 4.0 | 95-100 | Excellent |
| A- | 3.67 | 90-94 | |
| B+ | 3.33 | 85-89 | Good |
| B | 3.0 | 80-84 | |
| B- | 2.67 | 75-79 | |
| C+ | 2.33 | 70-74 | |
| C | 2.0 | 65-69 | Satisfactory |
| C- | 1.67 | 60-64 | |
| D+ | 1.33 | 55-59 | |
| D | 1.0 | 50-54 | |
| FX | 0.5 | 25-49 | Unsatisfactory |
| F | 0 | 0-24 |
Topics of lectures
- The role of road conditions in ensuring traffic safety
- The automobile and road system
- Transport and operational qualities of highways
- The impact of the car on the road
- The influence of the condition of the road surface and weather and climatic factors on the transport and operational qualities of highways
- The influence of road elements and controls on vehicle driving modes
- Calculation of traffic flow characteristics
- Road survey
- Ways to preserve the transport and operational qualities of highways in different periods of the year
- The impact of traffic conditions and road elements on traffic safety
- Methods for identifying dangerous road sections
- Ensuring traffic safety when designing new roads
- Elimination of dangerous places on the roads
- Traffic management as a means of improving traffic safety
- Requirements for safe roads
Key reading
- Babkov V.F. Road conditions and traffic safety. Moscow: Transport, 2005. 208 p. Methodological guidelines for conducting practical classes in the discipline "Road conditions and traffic safety" for students of specialty 050901 "Organization of transportation, traffic and operation of transport"/ Pshenichnaya O.A. - Ust-Kamenogorsk: VKTU, 2011. 52 p. Methodological guidelines for the implementation of the course project on the discipline "Road conditions and traffic safety" for students of specialty 050901 "Organization of transportation, traffic and operation of transport"/ Pshenichnaya O.A. Ust-Kamenogorsk: VKTU, 2007. 33 p.
Further reading
- 1. Traffic rules of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Approved by the Order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 05, 2025; 2. Novikov A. N. Traffic Management; Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov. . Belgorod: 2020 - 195.
