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Highway Safety (CE 509)

Methods to reduce collisions and injuries on highways. Identifying promising locations, choosing appropriate countermeasures, and evaluating past projects. Understanding the institutional context and establishing appropriate highway design standards. View course on website

Multimodal Transportation Safety TR-GY 7033

Technology, legislation and market forces have contributed to improved transportation safety for decades. But one must consider which metrics are most relevant for which modes, the role of demographics and traffic levels and other factors when analyzing and predicting safety trends. The course pays attention to a systems view, to metrics by mode and to both standard field and statistical analyses. Consistent with current priorities, the course addresses security as well as safety issues.

Introduction to Transportation Engineering CE 402

Overview of the field of Transportation Engineering. Topics covered include: description of transportation systems; traffic engineering studies; highway safety studies; traffic flow characteristics; transportation planning; travel demand; geometric design of highways; characteristics of drivers, pedestrians, vehicles, and roads and their applications to the determination of braking distance, stopping sight distance, passing sight distance, sign placement, and timing of change and clearance intervals.

Transportation Engineering CEGR 416

Engineering and planning for transportation facilities with emphasis on ground transportation. Topics include: vehicle motion, vehicle flow models, human factors, geometric de- sign, safety, capacity analysis and transportation planning.

Transportation Design CE 4407

An introduction to the planning-design-construction process for highways, intersections, and railroads. Operations, capacity, safety, and geometric design features. Horizontal and vertical alignment and cross sections. Design criteria, standards, environmental aspects, cost, and construction considerations. Use of CAD systems in preparing contact plans.

Highway Design CE 449

Geometric design of highways. Operation, capacity, safety, and geometric features. Alignment, drainage and pavement design. Use of CAD systems in preparing contract plans.

Principles of Traffic Engineering CE 444

Driver and vehicle characteristics affecting traffic flow and safety. Speed, density, capacity relationships. Signal control in street networks. Freeway management systems. Risk management and liability.

Traffic Engineering CEN 5042

Engineering principles for safe and efficient movement of goods and people on streets and highways, including characteristics of users, vehicles and traffic facilities; data collection; traffic control; operational analysis; design; management; safety; parking and related aspects of transportation planning and geometric design.

Transportation Engineering CEN 3030

An introduction to the engineering of transportation systems in the context of one mode: highways. The major aspects of highway engineering are covered in a framework of the highway planning and design process in the US and include: history and description of the US system of highways, its administration and finance, the planning process, alternatives evaluation, traffic engineering, traffic operations and safety, geometric design, and structural pavement design. Laboratories involve a community design project in which field studies are conducted and used in developing alternative design strategies, provided in a final design submission.

Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles EECE 449

History of the UAV, basics of mechatronic design, common sensor payloads, high definition cameras, sonars, lidars, vision and imaging design parameters. Major design challenges, laws and regulations, operations and safety.