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Traffic Engineering and Highway Safety (CE 6721)

Roadway traffic capacity and network performance measures; steady and unsteady traffic flow phenomena; traffic control signalization theory and practical implementation; monitoring techniques, instruments, and data processing for highway safety. Traffic related highway safety design concepts. View course on website

Highway Engineering and Design (CE 3720)

Road vehicle performance. Principles of highway design: horizontal and vertical alignments, roadside design; drainage and drainage structures, earthwork, intersections, interchanges, parking facilities; basic traffic models; highway materials. Application of safety standards. View course on website.

Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling and Simulation CE 6705

Rigid and flexible body methods for modeling crashes. Application of dynamic nonlinear finite element methods with contact algorithms for modeling crash phenomena. Modeling and simulation of vehicles, airbags, safety restraining systems, and highway barriers.

Intelligent Systems Theory and Applications CE 8370

Overview of artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems and their integration with other information processing methods. Intelligent systems applications; examples are drawn from ITS and traffic engineering, vehicle safety, remote sensing, and structural design optimization.

Intelligent Transportation Systems CE 6722

Commands, controls and communications in modern multimodal transportation; infrastructure/highway and vehicle automation, advanced traffic management, vehicle control and safety systems; information, data, and sensory requirements; practical applications and projects.

Special Topics in Urban Transportation (CEIE 890)

Includes traffic safety analysis, simulation in transportation, intelligent transportation systems, advanced public transportation systems, congestion and travel demand management, geographic information systems and information technology, and innovative refinancing and public-private partnerships. View course on website

Transportation System Security and Safety CEIE 686

Focuses on critical transportation systems infrastructure and operations, and technologies for predicting and managing damage and disruptions caused by potential threats, including natural and technological disasters and terrorist threats. Includes asset management, methodologies for assessing vulnerabilities, potential impact of damage and disruption, applying state-of-the-art technologies and R&D processes for harnessing best analysis methods, and technologies for hardening transportation infrastructure systems. Includes sensing and surveillance using satellite and aerial remote sensing imagery, application of GIS and spatial information technologies, information and communication, intelligent transportation systems, hardening systems, and making intelligent choices for implementing technology advances to transportation security and safety.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (CEIE 663)

Advanced transportation system operations and safety through the use of wireless and wireline communications; integrated transportation systems; in-vehicle technologies; industry standards; and systems architecture. Provides skills to apply advanced technologies to transportation systems to improve operational and safety performance. Provides nontraditional tools to address issues of congestion and improved safety performance. View course on website

Intelligent Transportation Systems (CE 8140)

Students learn concepts of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), including traffic flow principles, advanced traffic sensor and communications technologies and real-time management strategies, to increase the safety and efficiency of the surface transportation system. Covers the process of planning, design and operations of ITS.