Intro to Transportation Systems Analysis

Catalog description

This course covers fundamentals of planning, design, and operation of roadway transportation. Topics covered include basic traffic flow theory, traffic signal design and evaluation, transportation planning, pricing of transportation systems, and basic data analytics techniques. It also teaches the basics of the travel behavior model to understand planning of public transit services. The objective is to develop the capability to: 1) understand the principles of transportation planning, transportation economics and system management; 2) analyze transportation systems with emerging mobility data; and 3) apply methodologies to solve transportation system problems and develop management strategies/policies.