Transportation Courses

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.