Lecture meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks
Specific course information
Catalog description: The course covers common traffic and safety studies including traffic generation, parking demand, capacity and quality of traffic, control and geometry improvements, hazard and countermeasures identification, and before-and-after studies. The course teaches also about data collection and existing data sources. A real-world project gives an opportunity to learn and practice computer tools for highway evaluation and design (HCS2010, SYNCHRO, RoadHAT).
Prerequisites: CCE 46300 or CCE565, or equivalent
Course status: Technical elective
Specific goals for the course
Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
Supervise and conduct complex studies involving planning, design, and traffic operations issues,
Supervise and conduct highway safety management tasks,
Use advanced highway transportation tools in an efficient and adequate manner,
Make reasonable assumptions to fill gaps in the available data and the existing methods,
Design and perform data collection and other efforts adequate to the project needs,
Communicate efficiently within and outside the project team.
Relationship of course to program outcomes
Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Outcome 5: An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
Topics
TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDIES
Introduction, Traffic Forecast in TIS, Transportation Data, Traffic distribution and assignment
OTHER TRAFFIC STUDIES
Traffic Volume Studies, Parking Studies, Speed, Travel Time, and Delay Studies
TRAFFIC CONTROL
Traffic Control Basics, Introduction to Traffic Signals, Traffic Signals Design Elements, Highway Capacity Manual, Unsignalized Intersections, Signalized Intersections
BASICS OF TRAFFIC SAFETY
Road Safety and Its Measurement, Safety Performance Functions, Empirical Bayes Method, Estimating Crash Frequency and Cost
TRAFFIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Road Network Screening, Road Safety Audits, Selecting Safety Projects, Before-after Studies, Estimating CRFs/CMFs, Human Behavior and New Concept of Safe Roads
TRAFFIC CONFLICTS TECHNIQUE
Introduction to Traffic Conflicts, Current Practice, Modern Technique, Estimating the Expected Number of Crashes, Example Driving Simulator Study, Application to Autonomous Vehicles and Safety Management
