Background
The program in transportation engineering emphasizes advanced study and research
in the application of quantitative methods for analysis, planning,
design, and operation of major modes of transportation systems. Also
special emphasis is given to major urban and regional transportation
problems, transportation network analysis and evaluation, travel demand
forecasting, traffic operation and control, traffic flow modeling
and simulation, highway capacity analysis, intelligent transportation
systems.
Department provides a focus for each student's program through course
work and research in transportation engineering projects.
Courses:
16:180:530(F) Maritime Transportation (3)
Supply-demand; liner shipping industry; management and operation of
the port sector, environmental aspects, including dredged material
management and ship-generated marine pollution; security problems
and initiatives in maritime transportation. Boilé
16:180:531Traffic Engineering (3)
Techniques and hardware used for real-time traffic-data collection,
sources of errors and sample-size determination; design parameters,
including economic and human factors, as well as environmental constraints;
experiment design for model-development and transportation-operations
analyses; deterministic and stochastic models of traffic processes,
including queuing theory, headway distributions, and gap acceptance;
stream-flow characteristics, including car-following and multilane
models, bottleneck, fuel consumption, and noise models; models for
automatic vehicle control; network operations; models for modes of
traffic; traffic control, short-term planning, and system evaluation.
Boilé, Ozbay
16:180:532Transportation Planning (3)
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects in the United States,
Europe, and Japan; advanced traveler-information systems; advanced
traffic-management systems; automated highway systems; commercial
vehicle operations; operational field tests; system architecture;
human factors; safety; institutional and legal issues; multimodal
ITS applications; modeling ITS as hybrid systems; evaluation and selection
of candidate Intelligent Transportation Systems. Boilé, Ozbay
16:180:533Traffic Operations (3)
Real-time transportation operations; transportation-system evaluation;
demand modeling; time-sensitive transportation problems, including
real-time traffic control and networkwide feedback control; linear
and nonlinear network optimization; deterministic and stochastic queuing
models of the control of rush hour traffic, traffic-signal timing,
and ramp metering; incident management; operations; strategic versus
tactical transportation infrastructure planning; operation of parking
facilities; congestion management strategies; automatic vehicle control.
Boilé, Ozbay
16:180:534Design of Transportation Facilities (3)
Software and hardware to design, test, and evaluate transportation
systems; field studies, development and use of computer models, and
instrumentation of small- and full-scale hardware models; geographic-information
systems, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics for design
and evaluation; optimization software for vehicle scheduling and routing
and traffic assignment; visual-simulation development tools for rapid
prototyping of selected transportation systems; simulated life-cycle
analysis and validation techniques; data acquisition and control;
advanced data- visualization tools to test and evaluate developed
models. Boilé, Ozbay
16:180:536(S) Transportation Systems Analysis (3)
Systems analysis and decision making using concepts from economics,
engineering, public policy analysis, operations research, and management
science; application to transportation systems; and use of computer
applications and case studies. Boilé. Prerequisites: Calculus
and basic probability.
16:180:537Intelligent Transportation Systems (3)
Focuses on Advanced Traveler-Information Systems (ATIS) and advanced
traffic-management components of Intelligent Transpor-tation Systems
(ITS). Students also learn about Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO),
Advanced Vehicle-Control Systems (AVCS), and Advanced Rural Transportation
Systems (ARTS). Ozbay
16:180:538(S) Freight Transportation Systems (3)
Freight transportation demand and supply models, freight network modeling,
freight flow forecasting, operating, service, and cost characteristics.
Case studies in the analysis and design of freight transportation
systems. Boilé
16:180:539(S) Advanced Transportation Economics and Modeling (3)
Applications of economic theory to such topics as transport demand
analysis, transport pricing, welfare considerations, and transport
policy evaluation. Prerequisites: 14:540:343; 14:180:364 or equivalent.
16:180:540 Port Planning, Management and Operations (3)
Overview of port planning, management and operations with strong reference
to terminal processes and engineering aspects of port development,
port functions and management models, port pricing and financing,
port security and safety, environmental management and human resources
management in ports
16:180:529 Security and Safety in Maritime Transportation and Port Operations
(3)
Overview of the principles of vulnerability assessment of critical
transportation infrastructure. Overview of international maritime
transportation and port security and safety codes. Federal and industry
maritime transportation, port and container security initiatives.
Overview of principles of onboard vessel and marine terminal operations
relating to safety and security. Technologies to assist maritime and
port security and potential for implementation. Modeling and simulation
techniques to assist maritime and port security planning. Port Facility
Security Plans and marine terminal operations safety. Coordination
of Authorities involved in port security.
