500-level
courses
CEE 509 Transportation Planning and System Analysis
Review and critical analysis of various techniques used to
plan transportation facilities and services in urban areas;
application of selected techniques to forecast demand and
evaluate transportation alternatives. Prerequisites: CEE 270,
CEE 310 or equivalent.
CEE
510 Public Transporation Systems
Lecture. Relationship of public transportation to technological
innovation; financing and regulation; supply, demand, and
price considerations; performance evaluation; routing and
scheduling; application of microcomputers; and project planning.
Prerequisites: CEE 270, CEE 310 or equivalent.
CEE
511 Traffic Engineering
Engineering solutions to planning, design, and operations
problems of urban and rural street and highway networks. Prerequisite:
CEE 310.
CEE
515 Pavement Design
Design methodologies for highway pavement structures; theoretical
and applied aspects of flexible pavement design; soil conditions,
base, subbase and pavement materials; frost action. Economic
considerations. Prerequisites: CEE 310 and CEE 320.
CEE
516 Transportation Design
Comprehensive design of contemporary transportation projects.
Emphasis on improving utilization of existing facilities and
creating efficient new facilities through transportation systems
management techniques. Consideration of energy, environmental,
mobility, and community impacts as measures of effectiveness.
CEE
518 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Application of advanced technology to the vehicle and the
roadway to solve traffic congestion, safety, and air quality
problems. Prerequisite: CEE 310 or consent of Instructor
CEE
590F Freight Transportation Operations and Planning
Introduction to different modal and intermodal freight facilities,
their operation, types of freight moving and handling equipment,
and freight transportation planning based on current research
on and off campus. Freight demand, mode split, forecasting
for existing and new facilities, the role of freight in public
sector planning, policy analysis, data availability and issues,
survey procedures and methods, and case studies.
CEE590S
Simulation in Transportation
Fundamentals of traffic flow, modeling traffic with varying
levels of
details, replicating real world transportation systems using
transportation
simulation tools, input analysis, output analysis, car-following
models,
lane-changing models, gap-acceptance models, future directions
of
transportation simulation. Prerequisite: CE-ENGIN 310. Co-Prerequisite:
CE-ENGIN 511.
CEE590T
Traffic Flow Theory
The underlying theory of many transportation phenomena such
as traffic
congestion and queue dissipation. Modeling techniques at different
levels of
detail to describe the movement of individual vehicles and
the interactions
among groups of vehicles.
CEE
596 Independent Study
1-6 credits.
600-level courses
CEE
609 Transportation Systems Analysis
Review and critical analysis of various techniques used to
plan transportation facilities and services in urban areas;
application of selected techniques to forecast demand and
evaluate transportation alternatives. Prerequisites: CEE 270,
CEE 310, or equivalent.
CEE
610 Transportation Analysis and Planning
Analysis of traffic and transportation engineering problems
in highways, railroads, and airports, and planning related
to those facilities.
CEE
611 Transportation Investment and Pricing Analysis
The application of economic principles to transportation investment
and pricing analyses; emphasis on highway and public transportation
in urban settings. Prerequisites: ECON 103, CEE 310, or equivalents.
CEE
612 Transporation Planning and Policy Analysis
An intensive survey of current issues in transportation planning
and policy. Prerequisite: CEE 611
CEE
614 Advanced Concepts in Traffic Safety
Advanced topics in traffic safety including both motorized
and nonmotorized modes with an emphasis on the science of
safety. The course is divided into three modules. Module one
components include safety management systems, human factors,
data needs and limitations, identification of hazardous locations,
diagnosis of problems, development of countermeasures, road
safety audits/reviews, and crash reconstruction. As applicable
safety modeling suing the Interactive Highway Safety Design
Modules and other modeling platforms will be incorporated.
Several traffic engineering software packages will also be
used to demonstrate relationships between traffic safety and
operational efficiency. Prerequisite: CEE 310, Instructor
Permission.
CEE
696 Independent Study
1-6 credits.
CEE
699 Master's Thesis
Research carried out and reported under supervision of student's
research advisor as partial fulfillment of requirements for
master's degree in Civil Engineering or master's degree in
Environmental Engineering. May not be taken by those taking
CEE 679, Engineering Report or CEE 689, Master's Project.
1-6 credits.
