This particular course (CE 448) should be of use to anyone who is pursuing a career in transportation engineering perse, or with a public agency that deals at all with transportation issues (e.g., county road commission, a state department of transportation, a regional planning agency), many consulting firms, or a land developer, to name just a few.

There are several parts to this course:  the first has to do defining a general overview of transportation issues, the second with both theoretical and applied issues in planning transportation systems, the third with everyday planning-oriented problems associated with development, and the last with project evaluation issues and techniques (including a unit on engineering economics).  At the end of the term, you will (hopefully) be able to do the following:

    · understand the context in which transportation planning is done;
    · identify both qualitative and quantitative concerns in transportation planning;
    · define, plan, and implement a straightforward data collection exercise in the field;
    · calibrate a simple trip generation model;
    · interpret and apply a simple statistical regression model including understanding the limitations
       of such models;
    · plan and execute a straightforward traffic impact analysis;
    · understand and use simple engineering economics principles
    · work in a team and make task assignments so that workload is balanced; and
    · write a reasonable technical report.
 

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