CE 430: Transportation Systems

The course is an introduction to transportation engineering and planning. Such as highways and traffic systems, transit system, elementary geometric design, capacity analysis, and flow relations, urban transportation planning and traffic forecasting. 
 

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

1. Understanding basic transportation systems components and concepts.
2. Understanding how vehicle and driver characteristics influence the design of various transportation systems.
3. Understanding of traffic flow characteristics and interrelations, including capacity, speed and safety considerations, and relate it to the design of transportation links and nodes.
4. Learning basic procedures for highway capacity and level of service analysis.
5. Basic understanding of travel demand and traffic forecasting.