Hi Kiran Kumar,
I have less than five years of experience but this is what I have learned. The processes that are involved require coordination with different departments. Highway design engineers are from the Transportation Department. They coordinate with Traffic Engineers in the Traffic Department and other departments like Survey. One discipline that a lot of people get in trouble for is the Environmental Engineering section. This is one of the most important aspects of transportation projects. Every single project requires an environmental review before proceeding to construction, but even before the construction phase, environmental reviews need to be completed very early on. Your question varies depending on the state or region that you are doing work for. Each state has their own procedure although they can be very similar. These are government funded projects so they are public information and you can usually find them on the state's department of transportation websites. These information are not always packaged together but if you want to know what the final process looks like it runs through a review called Final Field Plan Review also known as FFPR. The projects have a basic cycle that looks similar to this:
1. Concept (Bid)
2. Preliminary Submittal (PFPR)
3. Project at 30% Completion Submittal
4. Project at 60% Completion Submittal
5. Project at 90% Completion Submittal
6. Final Submittal (FFPR)
There are many steps in between that require a lot of coordination such as paperwork and construction drawings that are exchanged. There is a checklist that each company works through to follow the agency's (federal/state/local) guidelines and requirements. Some projects involve primes, sub-primes, and contractors if it is a very large project. Usually there may be a team that will consist of these three main players, unless it is a smaller project.
Your question seems to be more directed towards project management, but if the reason why you started this topic is because you wanted to understand the life-cycle of a project and role that a highway design engineer plays, then it is more technical than what I provided above. For example, if you are a Team Design Lead then you are someone that wants to make these requirements with respect to your state and local agency's checklist. If you are working to support a Team Design Lead then these are what your team's leads' goals will be. In Georgia, this is what final field plan review checklists look like:
Required Checklist:
http://mydocs.dot.ga.gov/info/gdotpubs/Publications/2440-1b.pdfThis is the final boss stage. If they find anything missing or wrong, your documents will be rejected and sent back. Your Transportation Department's PE is going to sign and stamp those projects and one of the most important thing to understand is that you treat his and her stamps like yours.
Please let me know if this answers your question.
(If anyone notices there are any errors that I made in this post, please let us know, so that I may correct it. )
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Oanh Le Aff.M.ASCE
Suwanee GA
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-06-2019 02:36 AM
From: Kiran Kumar D P
Subject: Highway Design Project Examples
Request for Highway Design Engineers,
Can someone share a detailed report on a highway design project (which includes traffic study, geotechnical study, preliminary survey, pavement design)? I would like to review a report of other projects (either completed or on going) as a reference. I believe this will help me better understand the steps involved in the highway design process.