CE 45000 - Transportation Policy And Planning

This class is an introduction to transportation planning in urban areas. The course will cover the history of urban transportation planning, transportation data sources and surveys, fundamentals of travel demand and network modeling, financial issues, transportation planning and environmental issues, local and federal regulations and policies, and contemporary issues.

Preparation for Course
P: CE 34500.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1.   Design, conduct and administer surveys to provide the data required for transportation planning.
2.   Learn and understand zonal demand generation and attraction regression models.
3.   Learn and understand demand distribution models.
4.   Learn and understand model split models for mode choice analysis.
5.   Develop and calibrate trip generation rates for specific types of land use developments.
6.   Estimate the traffic impact of new developments using the four-stage sequential models.
7.   Understand transportation project planning and development.
8.   Understand and apply the process of financing to transportation projects.
9.   Learn the federal legislation and planning regulations pertaining to transportation planning issues.
10.   Be familiar with the impact of transportation on the environment with focus on air quality conformity.
11.   Impact of the transportation project on the land use.
12.   Understated selected emerging contemporary transportation issues and their impact on the society.
13.   Make final decisions among planning alternatives that best integrate multiple objectives such as technical feasibility and cost minimization.
14.   Communicate effectively via class technical discussions and presentations.
15.   Design transportation related project in a team of two or three students and submits a final report and conduct a presentation.