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TBA4340

Operation, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Roads

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This course is no longer taught and is only available for examination.

Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

For operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of roads it is important to have a holistic perspective to obtain a best possible result for the available budget.

Central topics of this course will be: Maintainability of geometric design solutions,winter maintenance (friction, salting, gritting, ploughing of snow), survey methods for existing roads, pavement management systems (PMS) and environmental consequences in the operational phase.

Learning outcome

Knowledge about:

  • Methods for evaluation of existing roads
  • Pavement management systems
  • Stabilization methods and recycling
  • Organization of winter maintenance
  • Snow removal, salting, and gritting
  • Tire-pavement friction
  • Dust, noise and environmental effects of salt
  • Maintenance needs of tunnels, bridges, gravel roads and the drainage system

Skills:

  • Understand maintenance consequences of construction options
  • Perform analyses of existing roads
  • Design rehabilitation of existing roads

General knowledge:

  • Have a holistic view on the operational phase of a road
  • Define a concrete problem
  • Think, work and report systematically / analytically

Learning methods and activities

Lectures og project work.

Further on evaluation

The course assessment includes a final written exam (60%) and student submissions (40%). The results for the parts are given a letter grade which is then combined into a single grade for the course. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.

Course materials

Lecture notes.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TBA4546 7.5 sp Autumn 2010
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Road, Transport and Geomatics
  • Highway Engineering
  • Transportation Engineering

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering